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View from Latin America and the Symbolism of Saudi Arabia
I’ve spent much of December and January in Latin America and now am teaching in the Bahamas. As I talk with local people, I find that they are astonished and dismayed by the United States...
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The New Year: Molding a New Reality
Painting by Rob Gonsalves By John Perkins “If you can dream it, you can do it,” is a famous quote attributed to Walt Disney or one of his staff. As I wrote in my book The World Is As...
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Take the Streets! The Success of Global Protests
AP Photo / Dolores Ochoa NOTE: John’s new book Touching the Jaguar: Transforming Fear into Action to Change Your Life and the World can be pre-ordered now. I’m in Colombia on my annu...
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Touching The Jaguar
Note: There are still a few spaces left on my January 10-17, 2020 trip to the Maya of Central America. If you’d like to join me for this magical life-changing experience, please sign up...
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An Empire in Collapse
In the Amazon, vast areas of rain forest are burning. Globally, millions of species of plants, animals, birds, insects, and reptiles have gone or are going extinct. Glaciers are melting....
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A Warning from the Past
“Anthropologists and archeologists have confirmed what Mayan legends and prophecies have long told us.” The Mayan shaman stands near the Great Jaguar Pyramid in Tikal, Guatemala, and spea...
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Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll and ... Shapeshifting with Plants
A Special Note from John Perkins I just finished speaking at the Colours of Ostrava music festival in the Czech Republic, am now headed into the Amazon rain forest, and then in September...
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Breaking with History
We are fortunate to live at a time when we have access to information that shakes us awake to the absolute need – and the fabulous opportunities – to change the course of human history. W...
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What Will Make America Great?
I was born in 1945, at the end of WWII, in New Hampshire. My dad lay in a Navy hospital bed in Texas until I was a year old – when I finally met him. I grew up steeped in patriotism. I kn...
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Good News and New Perceptions
I love good news. And these days it can often be found in talks and publications. Among the optimistic statistics cited in the popular book Factfullness are the following. Let’s call them...
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Is the US Imitating Venezuela?
I returned to my favorite bar in Mexico City. It was mid-afternoon and, other than a couple making out at a corner table, I was the only patron. Trying to forget about all the horrible ne...
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Why Is Football Popular Only in the US?
I walked into a bar in Mexico City. There were a few people scattered around at the tables, but the bar was empty. I was thinking about football, now that the season had ended. I’d grown...
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