Wow -- I knew we had a stranglehold on most of the third world, but I didn't know it was this extreme.

classic democracy now segment. I shoulda posted this.

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great find

I gotta do some research of my own before believing this 100%. Not voting just yet

Another longer interview here.

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Well I was already skeptic about this whole thing before even knowing who this man was. I thought something was missing, like I stated in above post.

I did a very quick, no hassle research via wiki, and there's already a section dedicated to: controversy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perkins

quote: "Columnist Sebastian Mallaby of the Washington Post reacted sharply to Perkins' book[1]: "This man is a frothing conspiracy theorist, a vainglorious peddler of nonsense, and yet his book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, is a runaway bestseller." endquote

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