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US: The Grim Reaper Wins.
By John Perkins This newsletter is short – three recent news items that tell the story of American priorities. From Democracy Now! , Oct 20, 2021: On Monday, a Senate Appropriations Comm...
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Injustice in the US Justice System
By John Perkins Purdue Pharma, the maker of the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin, was dissolved on Wednesday in a wide-ranging bankruptcy settlement . . .But the agreement includes a...
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Pope Francis and the Life Economy
By John Perkins I’m feeling very liberated now that it’s been a couple of months since I, like so many others, have been vaccinated. I’ve been going to restaurants and movie theaters. I f...
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If a Mountain Is a Deity . . .
By John Perkins Now that I’d been vaccinated, I was back at my favorite bar. With disinterest, I glanced up at the game that was playing on the large TV suspended above the bar’s mirror....
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Viruses, Vaccines and Aliens: A Screenplay
By John Perkins FADE IN EXT. OUTDOOR RESTAURANT PATIO - DAY Our protagonist is found sitting in the outdoor patio of a restaurant near his home, enjoying a beer. It has been more than a m...
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Ending the “Immigration Problem”
"The challenges ahead are formidable. But if the political will exists, there is no reason Central America cannot become the next great success story of the Western Hemisphere.” — Presid...
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Prospering From Uncertainty
By John Perkins This art was created by Walter Spitzer, a Jewish artist who survived Nazi concentration camps by perceiving himself flying back to the idyllic Polish town where he grew up...
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Caviar and Insurrection with President Putin
An economic hit man’s fantastical imagining of a conversation between his humble house cat and one of President Putin’s “saved” leopards as they discussed the Jan. 6 Washington insurrect...
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The Gift I’m Giving This Holiday
Here is a gift I’m giving and strongly recommend as one the recipient will benefit from and never forget – and which promotes social justice and environmental sustainability. Since the 19...
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Presidential Power (And Yours) – Words
In our personal ambitions we are individuals. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people. To some generations muc...
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Ending 2020: Relaxing And Going Deep With John Perkins
2020 has opened our eyes! And exhausted us! It’s time to take a break, relax, and go deep into what this means for the future – for you and the world. I hope you will join me at one or...
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A Journey To The Sacred Lands Of The Maya, May 2021 With John Perkins And Mayan Shamans
I am so excited! The trip I guide to the Mayan shamans and sacred sites of Guatemala is ON: May 7-14, 2021. It will be an incredible experience, the perfect way to recover from the exhaus...
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