John Perkins | USAID, Economic Hit Men, Iran, & The China Model
The Higherside Chats
Greg Carlwood
4.7 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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About Today's Guest: As Chief Economist at a major consulting firm, John Perkins was advisor to the World Bank, UN, IMF, Fortune 500 corporations, and government and business leaders in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and the United States.
Before that, he apprenticed with shamans when he lived in the Amazon rainforest from 1968 to 1971 and has since studied with shamans from many different cultures. His eleven books on economics, shamanism, and transformation include the Confessions of an Economic Hit Man trilogy, Shapeshifting, The World Is as You Dream It, and Touching the Jaguar. They have been on the New York Times bestseller list for more than 70 weeks, sold millions of copies, and are published in at least 38 languages. His latest book is a novel titled Message From Pleiades.
He now also facilitates guided tours into these locations as well.
Get more info about all of these things at: JohnPerkins.org
Chapters
05:21 The Four Pillars of Economic Manipulation
08:09 China's Rise and the New Economic Hitmen
17:00 Blackmail and Coercion in Politics
23:00 The Amazon Experience and Shamanism
01:06:13 Visions and Transformations: The Ayahuasca Experience
01:11:40 Miracles of Healing: Indigenous Medicine vs. Western Medicine
01:20:02 Corporate Secrets: The Legacy of Charles T. Maine
01:29:16 Shamanism and Healing: Perspectives on Life and Death
01:46:21 A New Economy: Shifting from Death to Life
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| 0:00.0 | The planet's puppet masters almost surely have a plan. |
| 0:16.0 | There's clearly maybe something there beyond the realm of man |
| 0:21.6 | And until we thoroughly tested every last close-chested view |
| 0:30.6 | I find the more we think we know the less we really do |
| 0:35.6 | Where would we be without THC? |
| 0:41.3 | Because we know they're lying to us, just don't know to what degree |
| 0:48.3 | Where would we be without THC The higher side chat show, Greg Carlwood and company. |
| 1:08.5 | Well, do it live from the Sunshine State. I'm Greg Carlwood. And we have known for a long time that |
| 1:14.2 | the empire runs on blackmail, coups, coercion, and cutthroat capitalism. A mob-like mentality of offering |
| 1:20.7 | a deal you can't refuse and a mix of unwanted carrots and sticks designed for domination and |
| 1:25.9 | competition elimination, a system that works well for |
| 1:28.8 | those living within the right imaginary box or those who have investments in the right companies, |
| 1:33.5 | but keeps many others around the world in bitter poverty. Well, like many young guns in the early |
| 1:38.7 | days of the internet, few videos were as impactful on me as the Zyteguist series. The highlight of that series being the |
| 1:45.7 | insightful interview with John Perkins that helped me understand the details of all this, where he |
| 1:50.5 | explained the work he has done around the world as an economic hitman. A process where he would |
| 1:55.4 | be sent to smaller countries that have resources are corporations covet and present their leaders |
| 2:00.3 | with predatory loans sold |
| 2:01.8 | as an opportunity for growth, new infrastructure, and development that uses their resources as collateral. |
| 2:08.4 | Only the money never makes it to the country itself. It goes to the corporations in the club |
| 2:12.8 | to build out said infrastructure and establish the means to extract said resources. When the loan can't be |
| 2:19.0 | repaid, the leverage is used in a variety of unsavory ways, rinse, and repeat. And John goes even |
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