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John Perkins | Lessons From The Confessions Of An Economic Hitman

The Geopolitics & Power Podcast

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What Is Debt Trapped Diplomacy?

CNN's John Sutter talks with Peter Bergen about the idea of debt trapped diplomacy. He says economic hit men 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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