Historic Video: Whistleblower John Perkins Explains How U.S. “Economic Hitmen” Bankrupted Resource-Rich Nations
February 1, 2026
HISTORIC VIDEO.
UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTH.
A whistleblower says the quiet weapon wasn’t war, it was debt.
John Perkins reveals how the U.S. trapped poorer countries in crushing loans not to help them develop, but to control them.
When nations can’t repay, they don’t lose money, they lose power.
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English Script:
John Perkins: We economic hitmen have in the last few decades, created the world’s first truly global empire. And it’s the first empire that’s been created primarily without the military. Through economics, we work in many different ways, but perhaps the most common is that we will identify a third world country that has resources our corporations covet, like oil, and then arrange a huge loan to that country from the World Bank or one of its sisters. However, the money never goes to the country. Instead, it goes to our own corporations to build infrastructure projects in that country. Power plants, highways, industrial parks, things that benefit a few rich people in that country, as well as our own corporations, but do not help the majority of the people at all because these people are too poor to buy electricity or have cars. They don’t have the skills to get jobs in industrial parks, and yet they say the whole country is left holding a huge debt and has such a huge debt they can’t possibly repair. So at some point, the economic hitmen go back and say, you owe us a lot of money, you can’t repay your debts, so give us a pound of flesh. Sell your oil real cheap to our oil companies. Vote with us on the next critical United Nations vote, or send troops in support of ours to someplace in the world like Iraq. And in that way, we’ve created this empire. When I failed to bring them around, to get them to accept these loans, to get them to put their countries into servitude, then I knew that standing right behind me were what we called the jackals. And these are people who overthrow governments or assassinate their leaders. And both my role, those of Ecuador and Omar Treehouse of Panama, were assassinated by CIA sponsored jackals because I failed to corrupt.
