Saturday, November 3, 2007

Economic Hit Man

I'm going to talk about a book I'm reading.
the books name is Confessions of an economic hit man by john Perkins.
the author of the books claims the following; he says that he used work as an economic hit man. and told of his stories. he hopes for redemption for all the suffering that he brought to other people
he explained a mechanism that the united states government uses to control natural resources of a country.
the first mechanism is economic control, this is where our friend John Perkins comes in, he was an economic hit man"EHM"; an EHM basically tries to go to a country and tries giving it as big a loan from the American controlled world bank as possible to be used for building projects to aid in the countries development for example, electric power plants and oil refineries. The catch is that the companies that build these projects have to be American and the nations that take those loans can't pay them back. the author gives Ecuador as an example, for every 100$ of oil profits that come from Ecuador's natural reserves 75$ go in to the American company that manges it the rest goes to the Ecuadorian government, most of which is spent by the military

the second mechanism is initiated when EHMs fail, the second mechanism is called jackles, jackles are people that are native to the country to which the American government is interested in controlling. These jackles are trained bye the American government to rebel on their government and over through it-very clean-. The Author claims that Saddam Hussain was a jackle he referred to him as our boy. The guy who Saddam help overthrow was a patriot that had a rule saying Iraq's oil is for Iraqis. Another scenario is whit iran's shah -the king of kings- .
their was a time before the shah was in power, the man that shah replaced was Mohammad Mossadegh,

in 1951, when Iran rebelled against a British oil company that was exploiting Iranian natural resources and its people . In response, the highly popular, democratically elected Iranian prime minister (and TIME magazine's Man of the Year in 1951), Mohammad Mossadegh, nationalized all Iranian petroleum assets. An outraged England sought the United States . However, both countries feared that military retaliation would provoke the Soviet Union into taking action on behalf of Iran .
Instead of sending in the Marines, therefore, Washington dispatched CIA agent Kermit Roosevelt (Theodore's grandson) . He performed brilliantly, winning people over through payoffs and threats .
He then enlisted them to organize a series of street riots and violent demonstrations, which created the impression that Mossadegh was both unpopular and inept. In the end, Mossadegh went down, and he spent the rest of his life under house arrest . The pro-American
Mohammad Reza Shah became the unchallenged dictator.


The last and simplest of these mechanisms is war :), isn't their an easier answer

6 comments:

Sayed Mahmood Alaali said...

Thanks Ahmed,

So do I need to read the book now? or your summarized it:D?

Take Care DURAZI.

Durazi said...

:D you should read it, their is a lot in it;)

Amani AbuQdais أماني أبوقديس said...

I read it all. Can u believe that? ;p
quite interesting maybe i should get you summarize harry potter books for lazy readers like me :p

Durazi said...

suba7an allah, your a very ahrd worker.
:P

Amani AbuQdais أماني أبوقديس said...

Still waiting for some certain updates about a certain trip :p

Anonymous said...

Good words.