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The reasons why many developing countries are riddled with debt and disorder might be explained by the conditions imposed upon them through loans for development. John Perkins who worked covertly for the United States National Security Agency and was on the payroll of an international consulting firm as an economic hit man (EHM) exposes these methods.
Perkins was told explicitly that his job was to justify large international loans from institutions like the World Bank and USAID to developing nations for the purpose of deliberately bankrupting them through commitments such as massive engineering and construction projects far beyond their means. As a condition of loans the countries were forced to privatise their utilities and open their markets to foreign interests. The tools of the trade included fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. There were several levels of coercion for dealing with non compliant leaders the first being bankruptcy, the second to ferment civil war, the third to assassinate them, or if all else fails to invade.
Large companies such as Halliburton and Bechtel were the real beneficiaries of this money who received contracts in return for financial support of the US Republican Party. This debt would force developing countries to call in favours such as military bases, UN votes, and access to oil and other natural resources. Developing nations were thus effectively neutralised politically, with their economies crippled in the long run.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTbdnNgqfs8
http://www.johnperkins.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man
The reasons why many developing countries are riddled with debt and disorder might be explained by the conditions imposed upon them through loans for development. John Perkins who worked covertly for the United States National Security Agency and was on the payroll of an international consulting firm as an economic hit man (EHM) exposes these methods.
Perkins was told explicitly that his job was to justify large international loans from institutions like the World Bank and USAID to developing nations for the purpose of deliberately bankrupting them through commitments such as massive engineering and construction projects far beyond their means. As a condition of loans the countries were forced to privatise their utilities and open their markets to foreign interests. The tools of the trade included fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. There were several levels of coercion for dealing with non compliant leaders the first being bankruptcy, the second to ferment civil war, the third to assassinate them, or if all else fails to invade.
Large companies such as Halliburton and Bechtel were the real beneficiaries of this money who received contracts in return for financial support of the US Republican Party. This debt would force developing countries to call in favours such as military bases, UN votes, and access to oil and other natural resources. Developing nations were thus effectively neutralised politically, with their economies crippled in the long run.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTbdnNgqfs8
http://www.johnperkins.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man
