Read: John Perkins, "Confessions"

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Yesterday, I read Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, the memoirs of John Perkins, who served as the Chief Economist for MAIN, a now-defunct Halliburton rival of the 1970s. I wouldn't say much of the "how the US treats other countries" material was new to me, nor is Perkins necessarily the best writer. I do recommend the book, though. You probably won't find any other non-fiction treatment of post-World War II international finance that reads like an episode of Alias. It's interesting to note that the US Department of State has printed a refutation of the book that doesn't actually challenge any of the claims Perkins makes - "Sure, all that destabilizing of foreign governments stuff is routine, but this guy thinks he was somehow working for the NSA! What a nut job, are we right?"

EDIT: I swear I posted this last night. In fact, the feedreaders in which I watch my own posts think so too - I cut/pasted the above from livejournal. But it's totally not here - this is a repost.

If I needed any proof that the story was true, that's it - the NSA cracked my blog last night and deleted this post!

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Oh. That's disappointing.

I think I figured it out. My hosting service, nexcess.net, has notified me that they've completed my site migration to a new server - I think that, when I posted last night, my content had been transferred, but the DNS hadn't switched over yet.

That's much less sinister.