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John Perkins articles

john perkinsJohn Perkins is a former Chief Economist at an international consulting firm and CEO of a successful alternative energy company. He is best known for his Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, a New York Times bestseller for 70 weeks that has been published in over 30 languages. His The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Feb 2016) delves deep into global systemic problems and describes what we can do – individually and collectively – to correct them. His experiences advising the World Bank, UN, IMF, U.S. government, Fortune 500 corporations, and heads of state convinced him to devote his life to facilitating changes in consciousness and in social, political, and economic systems. He was founder and CEO of a highly successful alternative energy company and is a founder and board member of Dream Change and The Pachamama Alliance, nonprofits dedicated to creating a sustainable, just, peaceful, and thriving world. Take a look at his website and follow him on Twitter and Facebook.

Trump Versus Putin: Molding Reality

June 7, 2017 by John Perkins Leave a Comment

Trump Versus Putin

Does Russia spy on the United States? Absolutely. Am I defending Putin as a guy who wears a halo? Absolutely not. Does the United States spy on Russia? Of course; we even spy on our allies as we admitted.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Russia, Socialism and Labor, Spying and Privacy, Vladimir Putin

Creating Reality – Yours And The World’s

May 17, 2017 by John Perkins Leave a Comment

Creating Reality

Reality is molded by our perceptions of concepts expressed by words like democracy, capitalism, and prosperity. People are challenged to envision what democracy and sustainability truly look like.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Political Artwork, Worldwide

The Donald Trump Administration: Exposing The Shadow

April 6, 2017 by John Perkins Leave a Comment

Exposing The Shadow

What is new is a president who makes no attempt to hide his immense personal commercial interests in businesses that are known to be hotbeds of corruption.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: American Corruption, Capitalism and Big Business, Citizens United, Money Politics

Human Consciousness: You As Creator

March 6, 2017 by John Perkins 1 Comment

Human Consciousness

The power of our perceptions to alter reality is a theme that runs through lectures I’ve given at Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, and more than 50 other universities and to over 3,000 executives.

Filed Under: DC Authors

How To Be A Democracy Under Trump

February 15, 2017 by John Perkins Leave a Comment

Democracy Under Trump

It is up to us to insist upon democracy. It is essential that we continue to demonstrate and march, to bombard Trump and our other elected officials with tweets, posts, phone calls, and emails.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Central America, Democracy Protests, Republicans, South America

Message From The Legendary Elder Siblings

December 25, 2016 by John Perkins Leave a Comment

Legendary Elder Siblings

I’ve written many times about the necessity to move from a Death Economy, based on warfare and ravaging the very resources upon which it depends, to a Life Economy, based on cleaning up pollution

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Colombia, Colonialism, Indigenous and Democracy, Native Americans and Democracy, Socialism and Labor, South America

JFK’s Advice For This Hour Of Change And Challenge

November 15, 2016 by John Perkins Leave a Comment

JFK’s Advice For This Hour

People everywhere understand that although the system that’s been in place for roughly a century has created amazing science, technology, medicine, and arts, it has run its course.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: American Corruption, Capitalism and Big Business, Socialism and Labor

Pollution’s Victims From 17th Century Edinburgh to Modern Haiti

October 17, 2016 by John Perkins Leave a Comment

17th Century Edinburgh to Modern Haiti

Will future generations not marvel at our stupidity? And then of course the follow-on question: Aren’t we intelligent enough to make sure they will not need to ask? Let’s make certain that the answer to this question is YES.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Caribbean, England, Haiti

The Perception Bridge: Building A Better Reality

October 2, 2016 by John Perkins Leave a Comment

The Perception Bridge

I was in charge of convincing heads of state of countries with resources our corporations covet, like oil, to accept huge loans from Wall Street, the World Bank and its sister organizations.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Capitalism and Big Business, Socialism and Labor, Worldwide

Sleeping On A Volcano

August 21, 2016 by John Perkins Leave a Comment

Sleeping On A Volcano

This is one of the many true and tragic stories I have witnessed – stories that highlight the devastation that follows in the wake of an economic system that I and other economists call the Death Economy

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Capitalism and Big Business, South America

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