... could have guessed.
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dozens of languages and dialects, and ethnic groups who nursed
centuries-old animosities. Conflicts were frequent and brutal, and
Sukarno clamped ... 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 he...
...
18 Iran's King of Kings 108
19 Confessions of a Tortured Man 113
20 The Fall of a King 117
21 Colombia: Keystone of Latin America 120
22 American Republic versus Global Empire 124
23 ... Revisited 20 3
35 Piercing the Veneer 21 1
Epilogue 22 1
John Perkins Personal History 22 6
Notes 23 0
Index 24 0
About the Author 24 8
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... war and the mass pro-
duction of weapons, from the damming of rivers and the destruction
of indigenous environments and cultures. I began to look at who
benefits when hundreds of thousands of ... their answers to my questions and
about the validity of their data. For instance, I could never just walk
into an office with my translator and meet with someone; we first
had to se...
...
Pirates in the Canal Zone
The next day, the Panamanian government sent a man to show me
around. His name was Fidel, and I was immediately drawn to him.
He was tall and slim and took an obvious ... Israel, and to
withdraw Arab funds from every American bank. He pointed out that
Arab bank accounts were substantial and that this action could result
in a panic not unlike that of 1 929...
... the old caravan trail through the desert mountains, from
Kirman to Bandar Abbas, and I roamed the ruins of Persepolis, the
legendary palace of ancient kings and one of the wonders of the clas-
sical ... appearance, and the presence of so
many others in the restaurant, gave me a certain degree of comfort. I
had become accustomed to people befriending me, like Rasy in Java
and...
... source of many products purchased in the
United States — coffee, bananas, textiles, emeralds, flowers, oil, and
cocaine — and a market for our goods and services.
One of the most important services ... Kuwait; the Iranian Ministry of Energy; the Arabian-
American Oil Company of Saudi Arabia; Institute de Recursos
Hidraulicos y Electrification; Perusahaan Umum Listrik Negara; and...
... John Island and tacked into Sir Francis Drake Chan-
nel, which separates the American from the British Virgin Islands.
The channel was named, of course, after the English scourge of
the Spanish ... Berkeley area of San Francisco's East Bay
and had graduated from UC Berkeley. She was a freethinker whose
views on life contrasted with those of my puritanical parents and of
An...
... live in shanty-towns and have lost all hope
of a better life, people who have ceased to even dream of
another day. These men and women leave their plush offices in
Manhattan or San Francisco ... which future control of the Panama Canal
might be in the hands of an independent, sovereign
Panama—supported by Japan Shultz and Weinberger,
meanwhile, masquerading as officials operati...
... are the essential questions of our time. Each of us needs to
answer them in our own way and to express our answers clearly,
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The situation in Ecuador ... to quantify them. It was not just about the
destruction of indigenous cultures, human lives, and hundreds of
thousands of species of animals, reptiles, fish, insects, and plants...
... financial, xix weapons
production, 56-57
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