Talk:John Perkins (author)

message: Although at the moment everyone's focused on the validity of "Confessions," in order to expand this beyond a tag, further information would be more helpful including:
Perkin's biography, current situation.
information on the organizations and companies he's founded.
etc etc. 
Since those are things that can be added with hopefully minimal controversy, might be a good idea to start there.
Dan 20:59, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Aditional Information

message: I've edited some of the things under the controversy to better reflect Perkins actual views. He is not anti-capitalist or anti-corporation for instance, but anti-globalization, and anti-free trade (which I didn't add), he does say, both in Shapeshifting, and in Confessions that neither capitalism or corporations are inherantly bad, but they are currently being used in harmful ways.
:He seems to be against globalization "as it's currently being practiced", not simply globalization.  
:(Antelope In Search Of Truth 05:26, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversy edits 

message: I removed the section, written by an editor, on why said editor disagrees with Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. This same material was also posted in the article about the book. While criticism is encouraged in Wikipedia articles, it must be criticism from published sources. --HK 16:15, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Criticism

message: Some additional content here would be very welcome. While I did not enjoy the book, the author makes a number of claims that should be investigated. (I was looking for facts and insight into the world bank/IMF, not an unsubstantined attack on american foreign policy and social conservatives disguised as a personal life story.) I personally can't find any information whatsoever to substantiate any of the authors claims and many don't pass common sense: i.e. big corporations want a poorer customer base? Yet there is a lot of media coverage of this topic without NPOV comment. Does anyone have basic information such as: did John Perkins really work at C. Main? Was he interviewed favorably by the NSA? Did he hold the positions he states in his book? Did the poeple mentioned in the book exist? The whole story seems so fake -- so agenda based: Howard Zinn under cover. I could give it more thought if some basics were established.
--Tbbooher 04:51, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Additional Content Needed

message: A quick look at Amazon gives the impression of an author who, like Dan Brown, has
finally found his niche, though not as yet to the same degree. His previous books
have some three line rave reviews obviously written by Perkins under a variety of names.
It seems a pity he wangled his way onto Amy Goodman's show. I wouldn't be surprised if 
a lot of his information is correct; Dan Brown uses a good deal of factual information
in his fictions as well. 
I don't see what one can usefully do with this page given the info available, apart from
one thing: say something about the books JP has published previously (which don't
seem to have been noticed, but now that he has one that is selling it may be useful
to go back a bit). It may be helpful to think of him as a wannabe Carlos Castaneda,
particularly since Wikipedia has dealt with Castaneda and that page could be a model for
this one if JP turns out to be of abiding interest - in which case there will be some
more useful external links sooner or later. I've read some authentic material in this vein
(notably The Road to Hell, Michael Maren - for whom there is no page). I'll pass on this one.
Abu Amaal 02:07, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Perkins, Brown, Castaneda 

message: I don't know if he really was an EHM. His book was published as a work of fiction, although in his Author's Note he says that it's true. I don't know, but everything should be taken with a grain of salt.
* It was written as non-fiction.  anyone with eyes and ears can see it is all very true. John celona 17:31, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: * You create an acronym for one-time use? Landroo 18:23, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: He's used the term to refer to himself in some interviews, I'd dig them up if there's any interest, but the acronym's fine for what it is. (StarkeRealm (talk) 11:52, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was he really an EHM? 

message: There needs to be a disambiguation page set up (and a new bio page) for Rev. Dr. John M. Perkins, founder of CCDA and the John M. Perkins Foundation for Reconciliation & Development.He's an author and notable speaker as well as a valued figurehead of the Christian Community Development strata. I'll be working on this, but I wanted to discuss it first since I'm rather new. Jadeddissonance 17:29, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rev. Dr. John M. Perkins 

message: This guy is a trained economist and has been so for all his life. But now because of his book its somehow legitimate to use a lable like 'activist'. hes not being an activist anymore than a professor or banker or Norman Schwartzkopf, clinton or anyone else is whos going on a tour to explain their work. kind of a labeling that the world seems to have got used to. FOX news integrated in our own intellectually dishonest minds.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nunamiut (talk • contribs) 14:56, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: A "trained economist"?  Umm, no, not if our article is accurate.  This is a guy with a Bachelor's degree in business administration.  Not the same thing at all!  Nandt1 (talk) 15:17, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: He also does a lot of work with indigenous peoples in Ecuador, which isn't really discussed in the article. 71.198.137.225 (talk) 05:06, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  activist? 

message: I removed the part about the alleged homosexuality. It doesn't add anything useful. Robincohen (talk) 09:14, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Homosexuality 

message: "Perkins was trained early in his career by a beautiful, older woman who was armed with the psychological profile gathered about him by the NSA after many days of pre-employment screening, as one of many "economic hit men" advancing the cause of corporate hegemony."
...why not 'armed with a massive rack" :-D
Who wrote this? This is ridiculous! This sentence alone puts me off so much I do not want to read the rest of the article.
Get rid of it!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.185.199.171 (talk) 00:36, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bio 

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message: I've been looking for a section of the article where it explains the true motive behind Mr Perkins change of heart to write or talk about his previous filthy jobs with no luck.It would be very helpful and maybe inspirational to the readers of this article to at least get an idea of what he went thru that made a new man out of him .It'd be naive to think people like him just change over night!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.244.133.192 (talk) 15:32, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  A change of heart?