John Perkins
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Australian politician and journalist (1878-1954)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 28 January 1945
- Works
- 52
Top works
- Confessions of an economic hit man
- A profitable booke of Maister Iohn Perkins felow of the Inner Temple treating of the lawes of Englande
- A profitable booke ...
- Incipit perutilis tractat[us] Magistri Ioh[ann]is Parkins Interior Templi Socii siue explanacio quoru[m]dam capitulo[rum] in tabula hui[us] libelli contento[rum] grandi cum dilige[n]tia [et] studio ad iuuenu[m] informacione[m] valde necessaria
- Bekentenissen van een economische huurmoordenaar
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1932-04-09
- Active to
- 1998-01-19
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,085
- Total plays
- 9,740
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John Perkins (b. January 28, 1945 in Hanover, New Hampshire) is an activist and author. His best known book is Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2004), an insider's account of the exploitation or neo-colonization of Third World countries by what Perkins describes as a cabal of corporations, banks, and the United States government. His 2007 book, The Secret History of the American Empire, makes further claims about the negative impact of global corporations on the economies and ecologies of poo
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,552x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,600x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,901x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,581x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,131x
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Quotes
- “I think once Americans understand what we’re doing in the world and how much hatred this is generating, we will demand change. And I think history has proven that when we demand change in any area, eventually — it takes a little time — but we do get it. So I’m very hopeful...”
- “The corporatocracy is not a conspiracy, but its members do endorse common values and goals. One of corporatocracy's most important functions is to perpetuate and continually expand and strengthen the system.”
- “People like me are paid outrageously high salaries to do the system's bidding. If we falter, a more malicious form of hit man, the jackal, steps to the plate. And if the jackal fails, then the job falls to the military.”
- “History tells us that unless we modify this story, it is guaranteed to end tragically. Empires never last. Everyone of them has failed terribly. They destroy many cultures as they race toward greater domination, and then they themselves fall. No country or combination of countries can thrive in the long term by exploiting others.”
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