I have decided to shift gears in this third part of this series about US propaganda and the Russian attack on Ukraine
American “news” rarely if ever mention the economic factors that have moved both Ukraine and Russia into their current hostilities.
The manipulative intentions of the European Union (together with NATO) , the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank are central to aggravating the relationship between these two countries.
My eyes first began to be opened to these issues years ago when I first decided that I needed to be better informed about US foreign policy. Two books were crucial to that formative education. The first was, John Perkins’ book Confessions of an Economic Hitman, with a new second edition called The New Confessions of an Economic Hitman.
Perkins tells his story of working for the CIA throughout Latin America on behalf of American corporations, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. It’s a mind-boggling account of how the CIA works on behalf of US corporate powerbrokers by forcing 3rd world governments into perpetual indebtedness.
The second book was David Talbot’s book The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government. Talbot traces the origins of the CIA and the formative role played by US corporations in shaping its “mission” around the world.
Rather than explaining more myself, below are 3 conversations, or 3 parts
of a single conversation, with journalist Bryce Greene, a reporter for F.A.I.R. Media Watch discussing the importance of America’s enforcement of neo-liberal economics via the International Monetary Fund (IMF) throughout the world — including the European Union:
The third installment below is called “The History of US Intervention (in Russia and Ukraine)”
