Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: Exposing the Full Matrix of Western Exploitation | John Perkins

Whistleblower and author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman, John Perkins, explains how Donald Trump’s corruption fits into the same global debt slavery system enforced by the IMF, the World Bank, and the machinery of American empire in episode 252 of the Far Out with Faust podcast.

John Perkins is the bestselling author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman and the former chief economist at international consulting firm Charles T. Main, where he says he helped engineer debt deals that enriched U.S. corporations and advanced American geopolitical interests. Since exposing that system, he has become one of the most influential critics of corporate empire, foreign intervention, and the financial machinery used to control nations — including in his forthcoming new book, Art of the Steal.

In this conversation, Faust and Perkins trace the through-line between Trump corruption and the older economic hitman model Perkins says was used to trap nations in debt, strip them of leverage, and fold them deeper into the machinery of American empire. The conversation moves through World Bank debt, fear-based politics, and the manufactured sense of scarcity Perkins argues has been used to keep both nations and populations compliant. It also explores how war, corruption, and financial dependence feed the same cycle — and what China’s rise, America’s declining credibility, and a broader crisis of consciousness might signal about where that cycle leads next.

In this episode:
• Trump & the Economic Hitman Model: Why John Perkins thinks Trump didn’t invent a new system — he brought an old one home.
• World Bank Debt: How a country can look like it’s developing while losing control of its future.
• Who Recruited John Perkins? The strange path from business school and the Peace Corps to the world of private intelligence and economic warfare.
• Too Big to Fail: How did Trump use debt to make the system work for him?
• Iran & the Strait of Hormuz: Why Perkins says the U.S. helped build the infrastructure behind one of the world’s most dangerous choke points.
• China vs. America: Did endless war and broken promises hand the future to Beijing?
• A Crisis of Consciousness: Is the real problem corruption and empire — or the way we’ve been taught to define success itself?
• Perkins’ Five Questions: The personal audit Perkins believes can break the spell of fear, debt, and scarcity.

What begins as a conversation about Trump, debt, and empire ends somewhere much stranger: with the possibility that the only lasting way out is to change the consciousness that keeps rebuilding the system in the first place.

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