Economics are fascinating. I don’t mean in the sense of flow charts or page upon page in the back of the Wall Street Journal. There is something about money and how it works in the world which is, or at least should be, attractive to our minds. The very base of life is, unfortunately, money. As a recent college graduate, I am more aware of this than I have ever been before. Yet money is not only the foundation of life for individuals, but for groups as well, going all the way up to nations and entire regions of the planet. It is the interaction of economics between rich nations and poor nations which is touched on in this first volume of Speaking Freely.
Speaking Freely is a new literary series being released by Cinema Libre Studio. In it, an author is interviewed about a book they have coming out, usually one dealing with social or international questions. The result is, at least in this case of the interview with author John Perkins, a flawless interview, well edited and thought out. It is PBS with bite, a Democracy Now! interview actually interesting to watch.
Interspersed with footage of the globally poor, John Perkins’ interview about world-wide economics is arresting to both the eye and the mind. Perkins, author of the best-selling Confessions Of An Economic Hit-Man, speaks in this interview about the intentional creation of debt and the empire of influence America is creating abroad. This is not driven by any one political party, but rather by what Perkins calls the “corporatocracy.” With connections to both the current war in Iraq and the populist uprising being seen throughout Latin America, Perkins presents a timely and damning critique of the economics of America. It is well worth the watch.
Speaking Freely is both a great series to watch and great to keep an eye on, because with writers and topics like this, these are interviews which are going to go places.
The movie can be found at Cinema Libre Studios.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackJohn Perkins and his books have really helped me understand just how corrupt and tyrannical our corporate leaders are. Anyone who does any (real) research knows that the world’s governments serve the corporations. The largest and most destructive corportation in America is the Federal Reserve. It has enslaved every working American with the unconstitutional 16th Amendment and this fascist private entity owns and controls our system of government.
Our “elected” officials do not serve the people, they serve the interests of their corporate masters. But there is progress being made as momentum is being gained by the Tax-Honesty Movement and the 9/11 Truth Movement. “We the People” do have a form of non-violent protest that could help start a revolution - an Article V Convention - but Congress is not concerned with following the Constitution anymore…
There have been 567 requests made by all 50 states to being an Article V Convention to repeal the 16th Amendment, abolish the Federal Reserve and end the fascism and corporatocracy that has been propagated by countless puppet Presidents of the United States. CONGRESS HAS IGNORED EVERY SINGLE REQUEST FOR AN ARTICLE V CONVENTION AND HAS THEREFORE BROKEN THEIR OATH TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION.
It seems that the largest and most powerful families in the global elite are the Rockefellers (Oil, etc) and Rothschilds (Banks). These two families have their own agendas and they formally came to a joint-agreement with the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913. President Kennedy tried to ursurp the power away from this oligarchy with Executive Order 11110, but within six months he was assassinated. I’m sure there was a Jackal hired by the Fed to secure their control. Meanwhile, the purchasing power of the dollar has continually been destroyed by these fascists and the peoples gold is not to be found in Fort Knox.
It is of my own personal belief, that insidious groups within the global elite, aided by their media conglomerates, banks, tax-exempt foundations, special-interest groups and corporations have helped fuel the military-industrial complex and are beginning to wage the Third World War using the might of the American military. Whether it’s the erosion of our civil liberties or a $385 million contract by Halliburton-KBR to build “detention centers” in the United States - the future looks very grim unless the conditioned-complacent citizens of America stand up and ascend upon Washington to Restore the Republic.
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