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“ Very soon we EHMs discovered that we did not need to wait for countries to nationalize oil fields as an excuse to manipulate their politics. We turned the World Bank, the IMF, and other “multinational” institutions into colonizing tools. We negotiated lucrative deals dor U.S. corporations, established “free” trade agreements that blatantly served our exporters at the expense of those in the Third World, and burdened other contries with unmanageable debts. In effect, we created surrogate governments that appeared to represent their people but in reality were our servants. Some of the earliest examples: Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, and Israel.
— John Perkins
The Secret History of the American Empire
p. 166-167
The Secret History of the American Empire
p. 166-167