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This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, throu
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"This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that"

- John Perkins

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