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'Confessions of an Economic Hitman' by John Perkins



  • From: JJR
    Posted: Friday, April 28, 2006
    Subject: How the US uses World Banks loans to control developing countries
    "Ever wonder how the US lined up so many countries in Africa and Central / South America for Bush’s 'coalition of the willing' to invade Iraq? Clearly the citizens of these countries were against the US war in Iraq so what was in it for these governments to go along? Was it not further interesting that those countries who supported Bush on Iraq were given massive debt relief from World Bank and other loans a few years later?"

    Comment to above excerpt from review: Tanzania was on the debt relief list but Kenya was not. Guess which of these two countries refused to join Bush’s so-called “coalition of the willing”? Here is a list of the 150 countries who refused to join the "coalition of the willing". Tanzania and Kenya are similar East African neighbors. One got billions in US World Bank loans forgiven, one did not. Hum ... .


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