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The Evil Empire Has The World In A Death Grip
By Paul Craig Roberts
....Perkins book caused a sensation. It showed that the United States attitude of helpfulness toward poorer countries was only a pretext for schemes to loot the countries. Perkins book sold more than a million copies and stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for 73 weeks.
Now the book has been reissued with the addition of 14 new chapters and a 30-page listing of Hit Man activity during the years 2004-2015.
Perkins shows that despite his revelations, the situation is worse than ever and has spread into the West itself. The populations of Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and the United States itself are now being looted by Hit Man activity.
Perkins book shows that the US is exceptional only in the unbridled violence it applies to others who get in its way. One of the new chapters tells the story of France-Albert Rene, president of Seychelles, who threatened to reveal the illegal and inhumane eviction of the residents of Diego Garcia by Britain and Washington so that the island could be converted into an air base from which Washington could bomb noncompliant countries in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Washington sent in a team of jackels to murder the president of Seychelles, but the assassins were foiled. All but one were captured, tried and sentenced to execution or prison, but a multi-million dollar bribe to Rene freed them. Rene got the message and became compliant....
Now the book has been reissued with the addition of 14 new chapters and a 30-page listing of Hit Man activity during the years 2004-2015.
Perkins shows that despite his revelations, the situation is worse than ever and has spread into the West itself. The populations of Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and the United States itself are now being looted by Hit Man activity.
Perkins book shows that the US is exceptional only in the unbridled violence it applies to others who get in its way. One of the new chapters tells the story of France-Albert Rene, president of Seychelles, who threatened to reveal the illegal and inhumane eviction of the residents of Diego Garcia by Britain and Washington so that the island could be converted into an air base from which Washington could bomb noncompliant countries in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Washington sent in a team of jackels to murder the president of Seychelles, but the assassins were foiled. All but one were captured, tried and sentenced to execution or prison, but a multi-million dollar bribe to Rene freed them. Rene got the message and became compliant....
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The Evil Empire Has The World In A Death Grip (Original Post)
Mr_Jefferson_24
Feb 2016
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erlewyne
(1,115 posts)1. We are an evil empire.
We should build and feed and teach.
newfie11
(8,159 posts)2. The link doesn't work.
Mr_Jefferson_24
(8,559 posts)4. Not sure why it...
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)3. Spiritual successor to the British Empire.
Volaris
(10,272 posts)5. ayep..and you would think that we (of all fucking people)
would be acutely aware of exactly how well that worked out for them.
the article called them 'Presstitutes'. I think it's perfect, and I'll be stealing it and using it now on a regular basis.