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104: John Perkins | Debt Traps & Confessions Of An Economic Hitman

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The Debt Trapped Diplomacy

CNN's John Sutter talks with Peter Bergen about the idea of debt trapped diplomacy. He says economic hitmen load countries with huge amounts of debt that they use to pay their companies, and then get rich from it. "It's a very real system of type of enslavement," writes Bergen.

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