Democratic Underground - State Department attacks "Economic Hit Man"

Trying to paint him as a conspiracy theorist loon and new age wacko. This is the part that is really outlandish, this quote at the end:

As to whether Perkins was acting at the behest of the U.S. government, the world is not “as he dreams it.”

Who ever is writing this for the State department is sure taking this personally to attack Perkin's "other interests" which have absolutely nothing to do with Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. This is an outrageous personal attack.

http://usinfo.state.gov/media/Archive/2006/Feb/02-767147.html

Washington -- John Perkins’ popular, but misleading, book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, is being released in paperback. Perkins claims that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) recruited him to be an “economic hit man,” who deliberately entrapped foreign countries in unmanageable amounts of debt so they would be beholden to the United States. This appears to be a total fabrication. To the contrary, the U.S. government has led a recent initiative to cancel the debt of many heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC).

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Perkins revealed his fondness for conspiracy theories during a January 10 presentation at a bookstore in Washington. At one point, he claimed, falsely, that the U.S. government had been involved in the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., former Beatle John Lennon, and several unnamed U.S. senators who had died in plane crashes.

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PERKINS’ OTHER INTERESTS

Perkins has written several other books, which include:

Psychonavigation: “first hand accounts of how diverse tribal cultures travel beyond time and space by means of visions and dream wanderings;”

Shapeshifting: “shamanistic techniques for global and personal transformation;” and

The World Is As You Dream It: “shamanistic techniques from the Amazon and Andes.”

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