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Originally Posted by HotHotHeat
Has anyone watched that John Perkins speech? Or better yet read his book? I'm not being argumentative just want to gather some more opinions. I recently finished it and it's what lead me to question a lot of what we're talking about in this thread.
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I assume you've read his book then, right?
Me too....complete junk.
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Perkins had a very bad moment last Tuesday during the Q&A session when Professor Paul Sigmund, a member of the Politics department and co-founder of the Latin American Studies program at Princeton, accused Perkins of writing, “a false and fictionalized account” passing as the truth. A few audible gasps escaped from the audience. I met with Professor Sigmund the next day, and he told me that “US Foreign policy is more complex than [what Perkins portrays] and differs from nation to nation, administration to administration, and even within administrations,” pointing me to other reviews of Confessions and legitimate books on the same topics. Despite the claims made by Perkins -- that the US has pursued the same insidious policy regardless of whether the Democrats or Republicans were in power -- the real world is full of arbitrary contradictions and complexities that don’t make for simple, paranoid bedtime story.
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Interesting read.
http://www.nassauweekly.com/view_article.php?id=497