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And thats why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what
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"And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we will demand change"

- John Perkins

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