How
ignorant we are ? Do you really know the
white man or woman who knocked against you some where in Colombo
?
Was he or
she just a tourist, an Economic Hit Man , a C.I.A sanctioned Jackal- a killer
who would not hesitate to remove a politician dangerous to USA Strategy for the making of the Global Empire, an
undercover journalist, or a spy for the American State Department ? They come in
different forms incognito, as a tourist, a Journalist, a highly paid specialist,
or professional from an American Multi
Million Company.
One has to
read John Perkin’s book “ The new confession of an Economic Hit Man ” , to
understand how America
prepares for the making of a global empire. It also gives evidence of hypocrisy
of America’s
show of interest in the development of poor countries around the globe,
removing the leaders of these countries if they do not follow its dictates,
replacing them with puppets that America can manipulate for its own
benefit.
John
Perkins when he completed his tour of Peace Corps, was offered a position as an economist at MAIN an American Company in Engineering business. His
tutor “Claudine” introducing him to his job told him that he was expected to
justify international loans that would
funnel money back to MAIN( the employer) and their US Companies through massive
engineering and constructive projects that would work to bankrupt the countries
that receive those loans so that they would be forever beholden to their
creditors and would present easy targets when we (US) needed favours such as
military bases , UN Votes, or access to oil
and other natural resources…..and persuade the leaders of those countries not to align with Soviet Union ( now China and Russia), and
assure loyalty of governments around the world.
Below is an
extract from the Preface to John Perkin’s book, which itself is a store house
of information that discredits stories based on news items in the American written media
repeated by the loud mouthed UNP
Ministers and deputy Ministers as Gospel truth, in their television debates or
press conferences to discredit the
opposition- specially the former
President Mahinda Rajapakse .
“ Economic
hitmen (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the
globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, the US Agency for International
Development(USAID), and other foreign aid organizations, into the coffers of huge corporations and the
pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet’s natural resources.
Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs,
extortions, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that
has taken on new and terrifying dimensions
during this time of globalization. I should know ; I was an EHM
“ I wrote
that in 1982, as the beginning of a book with the working title Conscience
of an Economic Hit Man. The book was
dedicated to the heads of states of two
countries, men who had been my clients, whom I respected and thought of as
kindred spirits-Jaime Roldos of Ecuador
and Omar Torrijos of Panama.
Both had just died in fiery crashes . Their deaths were not accidental. They
were assassinated because they opposed that fraternity of corporate,
government, and banking heads whose goal is
global empire. We EHMs failed to bring
Roldos and Torrijos around, and other type of hit men, the CIA-sanctioned
jackals who were always right behind us, stepped in.
“ I was
persuaded to stop writing that book, I
started it four more times during the next twenty years. On each
occasion , my decision to begin again was influenced by current world events: the US invasion of Panama
in 1989, the first Gulf War, Somalia,
the rise of Osama bin Laden or bribes
always convinced me to stop.
“ In 2003,
the president of a major publishing
house that is owned by a powerful international corporation read a
draft of what had now become Confession of en Economic Hit Man. He described
it as “ a riveting story that
needs to be told.” Then he smiled sadly, shook his head, and told me that since the executives at the world headquarters might object, he could not
afford to risk publishing it. “We could
market you in the mold of a novelist like John le Carré or Graham Green.”
“But this
is not fiction. It is the true
story of my life. It is the story of the
creation of a system that has failed us. A more courageous publisher
one not owned by an international corporation, agreed to help me tell
it.” End of fist extract.
John
Perkins was told by his informant “Claudine of the MAIN Staff ”, that the
educated men in the exploited countries will oppose America, burn the US
flag and demonstrate in front of US
Embassies , but those who demonstrate may be educated people, however, they
will have no clue that the main reason
why we (US) establish Embassies
around the world is to serve our
own interest which during the last half
of the twentieth century meant creating history’s first truly global
empire- a corporate empire supported and driven by US Government.
John Perkin
continues his Preface, “……………….This book is the confession of a man who, back
when I was an EHM, was part of a relatively small group. People who play
similar roles are much more abundant
now. They have euphemistic titles; they walk the corridors of fortune 500 companies like Exxon,Walmart,
General Motors, and Monsanto; they use the EHM system to promote their private
interests………”
Let’s now
go to the “Introduction, The New Confessions.”
John Perkins states “ I am haunted every day by what I did as an
economic hit man(EHM). I am haunted by lies I told them about the World Bank.
I’m haunted by the ways in which that
bank, its sister organisations , and I
empowered US Corporations to spread
their cancerous tentacles across the
planet. I am haunted by the payoffs to the leaders of poor countries, the
blackmail, and the threats, that if they resisted , if they refused to
accept loans that would enslave their countries in debt, the CIA’s jackals would over throw
or assassinate them….”
Claudine
Martin, Special Consultant to Chas.T.Main, Inc., Perkins’ tutor says , “We’re a small exclusive
club, we’re paid-well paid- to cheat countries around the globe out of billions of dollars. A large part
of your job is to encourage world leaders to become part of a
vast network that promotes US commercial interests. In the end, those
leaders become ensnared in a web of debt that ensures their loyalty.
We can draw on them when ever we desire – to satisfy our political, economic, or military needs.
In turn, these leaders bolster their
political positions by bringing industrial parks, power plants, and
airports to their people. Meanwhile ,the owners of US engineering and construction
companies become fabulously wealthy…….”
Economic
Hit Men draw their salaries from the private
sector . As a result , their dirty work , if exposed ,would be chalked
up to corporate greed rather than to (US) government policy. (Chapter
three of John Perkins The New Confession
of an Economic Hit Man.)
The World
Bank which advices the Yahapalanaya on its financial management is not so clean as it appears. It appears on
the list of clients of the Economic Hit
Man John Perkins designated as
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The World Bank
and the IMF are not friendly towards developing countries they have their own
agenda which is the preparation for the Global Empire. The World Bank helps
poor countries to be indebted to America and move away from the influence of China and Russia.
The
Americaan Ambassador Athul Keshap was not a friend of Sri Lanka. He
was in the regime change business, if he was not an EHM. Before he left Sri Lanka
after the end of his tour of service, he made a
call on the TNA Leader Sampanthan to tell him to continue to agitate for
the writing of a new Constitution knowing very well that the majority Community
of Sri Lanka opposes the writing of a new Constitution. But the Kith Athul the American Ambssador had told
Sampanthan that it is only with the writing of a new Constitution that Sri Lanka
could expect development of the country.
American
Ambassador Athul Keshup was working for
the separation of communities in Sri Lanka and not for their unity. That
is the object of the EHM, the CIA and
the Jackals coming after them. The Sri Lankans should be happy that at last Kith
Athul is leaving Sri Lanka even though there is no
reason to be happy knowing already what
we will get in return is not any different from the one who is leaving.
With the
withdrawal of America from the membership of the UN Human Rights
Council in Geneva , the resolution against Sri Lanka which was moved by America becomes legally ineffective
and further action on it should come to an end.
But the
American Ambassador had said that America’s
withdrawal from the Council does not end America pursuing the effective
implementation of the resolution. But it is incorrect for America to now interfere into the activities of the Council
when it has rejected all interest in the Human Rights Council calling it a
cesspool of political bias.
How can USA come back to the Council which it insulted
as a cess pool and a biased institution to dictate terms as to what it should
or should not do with regard to the Resolution it moved against Sri Lanka?
In the chapter 25 of his book John Perkins seems
melancholic. He had decided to resign from MAIN.
He says “……..I came face-to-face with the shocking fact that I too had been a
slaver, that my job at MAIN had not been
just about using debt to draw poor countries into global empire. My inflated
fore casts were not merely vehicles for
assuring that when my country needed oil we could call in our pound of flesh,
and my position as a partner was not simply about enhancing the firm’s profitability. My job was also about people and their
families , people akin to the ones who died
to construct the wall I sat on, people I had exploited…….”
After
leaving the MAIN and giving up his role of an
EHM, John Perkins was later called to be a witness to support over estimated
development projects proposed to poor countries. He was however a sad man because he had seen people friendly leaders
like Jaime Roldos of Ecuador and Torrijos Herrera of Panama assassinated by the Jackals
of the CIA.
John
Perkins says that America
wanted them removed, as they were not
ready to allow to be manipulated by America
with its EHM, the CIA , the World Bank and the IMF and deprive their people of
the benefit from the oil in Ecuador,
and from nationalisation of the Panama Canal in Panama.
They were
called Dictators by America
like they call the people friendly leader Mahinda Rajapaksa in Sri Lanka by
the West and American Funded NGOs. John Perkins says now that he is a father of a young girl, he
feared for the future she would inherit , and that he was weighed down with the
guilt for the part he had played.
This book
has to be read by every one in Sri Lanka
who thinks that the West friendly
Yahapalanaya of Sirisena and Ranil still has a role to play as leaders
of Sri Lanka.
Longer the Yahapalany continues to lead the country more difficult will it be
to recover Sri Lanka from the disastrous political abyss into
which it has fallen.
It is the
duty of every one in politics in Sri Lanka, including the young UNP back benchers in the
Parliament to read every page of this book “ The new Confessions of an Economic
Hit Man by John Perkins.”
