What is an ‘economic hitman’? | Decoded
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Hollywood actor @amrwaked investigates whether powerful nations and wealthy companies are strong-arming poor countries of their resources and political power.
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The rich preying on the poor is as old as time 😢
Rich people lie better ,get put in power then make up laws and rules then do what's best for them
I remember reading the book “Confessions of an Economic Hitman” few years ago, and it making my blood boil. The way rich countries and powerful people exploit the weaknesses and bad situations of poor countries is so pathetic. Crippling governments and overthrowing good people to get like minded people in power…
Yes that was an interesting book, an eye opener
if its in book form more or less its fictionalized. If its real event it should be in the news. It maybe inspired by real person still fictionalized not a biography.
What is a Economic Christ Man? The Christ Angel that crash proof aka baby proof all the financial systems of the banking system, taxing system and printing system around the whole world...
@@redbutterfly88 that's why it's in AL Jazeera
Then the "righteous" ignorant racists from the west talk about how amazing they are and how great their nations are, as if the reason 3rd world nations are in the state they are in is because of bad management or low IQ.
The only way out is to teach our children this mandatory in school and private home tutoring.
It's the only way. Lemme say that again: Education is the key. Coordinated action is the escape. An educated society is a free society.
Schools are indoctrination camps. They need soldiers too. I agree everyone needs to know but if you think schools would tell kids anything like this is a fantasy. The things kids need to know, never get told. I've known this. People keep trying to wake people up but don't wake up and they think we'd never do that. Schools will never rat out their own country. Good way to get fired and also killed. Also, the history at schools that they teach is fake history that's constantly rewritten to fit their narrative. Real history is erased or covered up . But to think schools would say anything, no way. That's why many homeschool. I'd show my kid this video . I agree with you. It's sick
Woow. I must admit Al Jazeera has impressed me more during these last few days as a journalistic institution. Its attempt at seeing things from a neutral standpoint has impressed me more than most other old time networks.
Lmao
neutral lul, but I agree they're one of the best.
I am not saying anyone is perfect
It sounds like what China is doing to Pakistan.
Polymatter actually has a good video done on al zazeera and its rational. I think its a good introductory video on their journalism in general.
I hope now everyone can understand why Africa is still poor after all these years despite the "Aid" from the richer nations.
This is something that should have been reported decades ago but I guess there aren't many trustworthy media outlets anymore.
Very informative video keep it up.
Firts Africa IS NOT POOR . IT IS ROBED NON STOPPED by the same ones that play samaritans (those pseudo richs countries) if they were rich, why they have the need to invade others countries to take every resource to call themselfs rich?
They own the media they own everything.
@@RDDII
Those unbrainies are Ladrons that is all. Nothing inteligent, competent, bright or even important.
" LA MERD DE LA MERD "
The cheap mentaly unfitted, part of society. 😉.
No need for " about aid. Dont dare to ignore the billions of dollars going to true aid, charity. Independent of loans and other projects. Are you arguing Africa would be richer or more successful without the west? xD no way in h3ll
@@Teknisk
Money coming from those than Firts destroy a country and then sell the stupid idea they are the samaritans.
OF COURSE, Africa will be better of without ladrons making the rules. That is not even, original. The robbery has been happening since TOO long ago 😉
I am a South African, and watching this I keep seeing my country's Eskom/electricity problem. Its sad but it's true. Thank you for making these types of videos.
Isn't Eskom run by South Africans?
Capitilism meets socialism = thugerism
Hi homey,,,,,, I feel you. The socalled "loadsheddings" are fast becoming a way of life now, and that sucks
Sri Lanka is experiencing the problems created by International and local economic hitmen 😥
Right. China is playing the new economic hitman role.
Pakistan is also experiencing this problem.
Sri Lanka's real problem is with its ethnic nationalism that spawned a 30 year war, still discriminates systemically against minorities and persuades people to vote irrationally. Sri Lanka had the opportunities and didn't take them. Economically left-wing policies like import substitution and high tarriffs have damaged the country more than any capitalist policy
Problem is ur rulers not hitmen bz they are the one who sold your country for nothing but just wipeout Tamils
Facts right now there is no fuel in Sri Lanka
Al Jazeera is really stepping up in production!
I know in recent events they can afford to be less biased so I appreciate that as many now do.
Hope more of the western audience comes to appreciate your reporting on these subjects.
As part of the Western audience, I definitely appreciate it. Al Jazeera has long been my favorite source of news and journalism for every situation where Western media cannot be trusted to be unbiased.
@@electron5271 Everyone is biased, even if they try their hardest not to be. But I come here as well for another perspective.
Yeah even I’m very pro Israel(and Israeli) and I enjoy seeing some of their content.
@@jewishboi3384 sorry to hear you're suffering with lunacy
@@skylarkesselring6075 🤣🤣 good one
As an African myself I just have to say that my continent has suffered the most from economic Hitman😢
Indeed, China did that to your ports.
@@TWO_GENDERS China, UK, USA, Saudi Arabia, Russia!!! Dont leave those 🤡’s out either
And yet your leaders are spending more on luxuries and corruption than the leaders of the countries that gives you the loans. Somehow it's all to do with your own wrong choices of priorities rather than the alledged hitmen!
Learn your lesson hard and well, neighbour. And take revenge. Cheers from Indonesia. We will survive this.
Bangladesh is the poorest in the world. You are talking about a continent of people who are very different depending upon what country they are in. Where in Africa are you from? While I agree some places are very horrific to live in, others are what they are because the people refuse to change their ways. These videos only touch on the group that controls it all. It would blow your mind. You will hear this on and off from different people throughout the years until you are finally able to put the pieces to the puzzle together yourself, but by then it will be too late to tell others because for some reason only a small few go seeking out the full truth with no bias.
The Fractional reserve (Federal and Central Banking) are the back-doors our enemies have attacked us from. So who controls this scheme? Who hides behind money, yet controls the world?
Big difference between the Puritans and the pilgrims that came to America.
Learn who the devils are that lead the masses to kill each other. Teach your children well. Even if you do not want to believe it does not mean it is not true. Look up Revelations 3:9
Money is what controls the world people, if you cannot see it then you will never understand what’s happening. Those who run that system also dictate how society is run by controlling everything people are subjected to. They want NOTHING NATURAL, think about the weather, water, A.I. medicine, everything is structured for them. Then they flood us with “immigrants”, brainwash, make delusional people look like the norm, put the lowest of society on pedestals (THUGS made to be idols), etc. knowing that they are putting the ants in a jar to shake up. We will all eventually die out if we do not resist. This is GENOCIDE AGAINST FREEDOM for the whole world. We have been feeling the rattling, THE BIG OLD SHAKY SHAKE IS COMING GLOBALLY SOON.
There is no running from it. This is happening in every nation. All will fight and kill each other meanwhile this "GROUP" will stay 100% unaffected and they will start the circle over again.
This Economic Hitman here is on larger scale. I have witnessed this phenomenon on a smaller scale, example when larger Companies killing smaller Companies. Killing competitions. Many Victims simply faded away. The dishonesty is so present. Stop the World, let me off.
I read John Perkins book several years ago also. Scary! It is much like student loans where it ties people up so they never can advance because they are crippled by economic hardship. highly recommended book! Opens your eyes to the reality of how the world works currently and why we need to change it!
“ Student loans” Great analogy.
book name..??
That's a good point. These people do not just target poor countries, they target poor Americans and Europeans. They are just greedy and will take anything they can get and hide behind their lawyers.
@@farhangujjar2659 confessions of an economic hitman by John Perkins.
He has material on here, Google what he looks like and track down the right vid.
It sounds like what China is doing to Pakistan.
Individual countries do this on a smaller scale to their own citizens .
First they make education expensive , make you take a loan , first entrapment , then they give you jobs with wages that don't match the amount of the loans .
They make sure that you are paid the bare minimum to survive , when they increase your wages you can be sure that the prices of all bare necessities will increase because the government will increase taxes to pay your wages, and the increase on taxes of goods and services will also be placed on the consumers .
The housing programs also allow the rich to get richer and enslave the ordinary citizens with loans.
Ever notice how they makes homes that are just a bit too expensive for your income level and then they make you take housing loans that become such a burden that you will be working past your retirement age to pay them off.
All this is done with your government in collusion with big business .
You are right, this is systemic and it is being done at all levels all over the world.
This is why we should live in an Islamic country God bestowed upon us that loans transactions are unlawful since it's causes the devil to spread corruption and allow him to stay in control and influence in power, there is Islamic banks which work in the way God accepted were the bank takes full responsibility of the product and it's a 1 to 1 between the bank and the consumer instead of the owner of the initial product and the consumer were the bank profits from the struggle of the consumer, learn their ways for knowledge is everything.
@@mohammedjafer9265 You are living in a dream world .
There are greedy politicians all over the world and a lot of them just give lip service to whatever religion they belong to .
Not long ago I read “Confessions of an Economic Hitman” , an eye opener for sure
Many academics, more specifically leading economists are also to be blamed for manipulating data and reporting findings that support neoliberal economic theories. Using these as evidences, world bank and imf go around selling their policies and loan products to developing countries. This is definitely a systemic problem.
TRUE 👍
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Sandra Lwin-han Exactly 💯🎯
INFACT it's a Systematic problem created and operated and controlled by these dirty players.
@@manjunathars7480 absolutely. All promises and voices for the humanity by culprit Jews and Profiteers and Researchers are fake and for personal gains only.
This is such a weird but really well produced production! John Perkin’s confessions was a revelation that everyone kinda knew but didnt wanna know. It’s a flywheel that big nations cannot stop today, not even an elimination or assasination, whichever you prefer.
This is literally what's happening in Pakistan the local official has a conscious and that is why he's about to be voted out of power by known corrupt goons in 4 days time
Big nations set it up that way so it would continue to pay out.
@@ariadneschild8460 true
What I got from this is that loans never let u advance in life... Being secular.. If I connect this with Islamic system in which loan is prohibited.. I would say Prophet Muhammad PBUH was biggest economist of the time.. In 7th century he understood the harm of the system
Interest (رباء, rib'a) is prohibited in the qur'an. Loans is permitted if there is no interest rate attached to it. Thank you.
I think it basically encourages equity participation .
You pool your money into a venture and share the profits or loss .
Around 2000 years ago, prior to the arrival of Islam's prophet Muhammad, the messiah of Christianity Jesus whipped the money lenders who were exploiting the poor outside the temple. So Muhammad was just plagiarizing Jesus.
Peace Be Upon Him.
@@suedenim6590 what is PUBG? A game
Read the confessions of Economic hitman a few years ago. It really opens my eyes and perspective of how the developed nations were exploiting the developing nations and are still doing that now as well.
China as joined the party of exploitation of developing countries.
This book should be required in high school and universities!
I came across that book while gobbling up informations on stocks share and international business for that one job interview in like 2010-11. I didnt get the job.
It opened my eyes. At the time, lots of review on the books are like its all lies and pure fiction etc. I look up the loans and relation with IMF by my own country and its all real. Real life is worst than what he wrote in the book.
Now, look at Ethiopia, back in couped governemt and economy is going in downward spiral again cuz their development in last 10 years have no substance and all from loads injecting which only profit cronies and imf.
Look at Sri Lenka, corrupted government took absolutely bullshit loans to build what they dont need but what China want with the loans from china. All the money goes right back to China because all the materials even the workers are brought from China. All the billions lend by Sri Lenka to build a port they dont need with way inflated price.
Citizens didnt even get jobs for it.
That President and all his party leaders should have been hang.
I wont even start on Myanmar or Cambodia.
Keep up the great work! This is a great series. Excellent production.
"We know that in many countries economic growth benefits only a small portion of the population and may in fact result in increasingly desperate circumstances
for the majority"
Confessions of an economic hitman
I'm loving these series!! Please keep coming with new one's and keep shedding some light on us to understand all these hidden thing's behind us...
My President was celebrating a loan from IMF, calling it an economic bailout. He must see this documentary. My country is Zambia 🇿🇲, our people are in abject poverty though in the abundance of natural resources, fresh water, fertile land abundance sunlight and minerals such as Cooper, diamond, uranium, manganese and many more.
The beneficiaries have just been exposed in this video. Thank you Aljeezla
Unique, creative, well produced, insightful documentary. I have appreciated the quality of your investigative journalism for years. Hope to see more of @amrwaked in these productions! 💜✊
This is very interesting and informative. Thank you. A Canadian. Thanks for asking these questions. Just when you think it can't get any worse. Still it is good to live in reality not a dream world and to face how evil can come with a smile.
Excellent precise and to the point. Thanks a lot Amr and team
South Africa is experiencing that right now from a new economic hit men
Amazing information and I will read this book. Thanks for introducing this issue.
Thank you for bringing this information to the light!
Thank you - excellent summary of a very complex matter.
I Red the book. It was enlightening but almost depressing as it showed how powerless we all are. Still the system does not succeed everywhere and so there is hope
I Green the book.
Thank you for the Truth .
This has happened to Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 too.
This explains why there is so much economic turmoil in the world 🌎
This has been a fantastic series .. Thank you so much !
' For ticks to survive,Cattle must exist ..'
East African idiom.
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Lol 🤣🤣🤣
Very fascinating, I did read the Jakarta Method a few years ago and it really changed my outlook. But the problem that isn't addressed in these arguments is the complex role of corruption with these men in power that were fairly voted in even without Western Countries support. Many horrible rulers stay in power and get no blame just blaming richer countries imperialism. Classical Liberalism economics did ruin these economies but it was the ideology they thought was best to make countries economically prosperous. When motives like greed from bankers and big corporations mix with with greed from corrupt governments that get in bed with each other it ends up in these type of situations. Not some evil lizard man orchestrating the whole situation. Best book to read on this topic is How Asia works by Joe Studwel.
I think if you look a bit deeper, you will find that a lot of countries leadership is not voted in fairly, or when it is, that leadership is quickly replaced through direct foreign meddling.
What also appalling is that million of innocent people got massacred and tortured because of greediness of these countries.
loved it!!! your entire show is really informative!!! Love from South Asia
Very informative… keep it up Al Jazeera!
Love how open and honest the professor talks about this subject at 11 minutes.
Al Jazeera English always rock on thanks to all people including the channel
Indonesia is actually a "success story" used by these economic hitmen as a case study. The CIA managed to overthrow a left-leaning government without putting any boots on the ground. The "domino effect" mentioned as a justification for invading Vietnam was actually about Indonesia. So a very pro US general, General Suharto (pictures are on the "crazy/mindmap board" in the video), was put in power. An elite few were given scholarships to study in UC Berkeley and when they came back to Indonesia they became our economists, known as the "Berkeley Mafia". And 32 years of a very brutal pro US regime began. It officially ended in 1998 during the Asian Economic Crisis. But until now the US is a top destination for Indonesian kids to study abroad, perhaps more so than our other Southeast Asian neighbors. Perhaps that's why Indonesia has the most number of tech unicorns in Southeast Asia though.
The same things have happened in Africa causing endless war, coups, assassinations and destabilized economics and then they have the nerve to call Africa poor when they are constantly plundering the resources.
Hopefully it is waned. Nowadays we started to sends people to europe and asia like japan for our education. Heck, even to south america and Cuba for medical study.
And our country's curse/blessing in our natural resources like nickel simply put another target in our back.
Wow what another thought provoking story on a serious subject. I just watched 2 back to back. I really like the way this reporter presents and researches his stories. Nice touch with guitar endings. Keep on rocking!
The USA and Britain went through a hundred years of starvation wages for the working class in order to industrialize....these loans are a shortcut. I'm not surprised it doesn't normally work.
The US used slaves Britain used slaves and mostly resources they looted from other nations.
I used to work for the largest bank in the world. He's right. It's not a place for "good", people.
It’s very important developing countries lean about how rich countries work specifically economics.
Capitalism isn't the problem, but the lack of capitalism in the international financial market is the problem. The international financial market is NOT competitive because it is largely denominated by the dollar and the global lender of the last resort, IMF, is monopolized by the US and EU. In short, we have an international capital monopoly problem. Basic ECON 101 tells you resource allocation will be suboptimal when the economy is run by a monopolist or oligopolist.
When capital power is extremely concentrated within a few countries, corporations of these said countries have the disproportionate bargaining power to strongarm countries into bad deals. China is no saint but at least they provide an outside option for poor developing countries to bargain against western financial institutions for better deals. China's offers will force western financial institutions to be more honest in their deals because now they don't have the ONLY say. The world needs to have competing economic superpowers to stay efficient in resource allocation.
The bottom line, capitalism can only be honest if there is competition. Every developed nation understands that. It is why they have anti-trust laws. However, for their own selfish incentives, they prefer the competition mechanism to be absent at a global scale.
Unregulated capitalism is financial anarchy, which is just as dumb as political anarchy.
Yep, these poor countries can take advantage of the fact that they now have another option, China, to strike a better deal for themselves whether with China or the IMF/World Bank, but still they need to be very careful.
That’s one of the reasons why there’s a western campaign against China.
That's why the USA and Europe do not like competition, countries like Russia and China growing by themselves without being controlled by the federal banks in power of the money which is controlled by few ppl who work for the devil he wants all the control not saying other superpowers are not controlled by the devil not as much as there headquarters
Mind-blowing presentation!!!
I am from Texas in the USA. Thank you so much for assisting with my growing awareness on this subject. I am developing my spiritual and intuitive side to raise my personal vibration from the 3rd to the 5th dimension. I believe this is what I can do as only 1 individual who does not want to participate in the power plays going on around the world today. Harmony in the hearts of mankind-womankind around the world is stronger than fear and hate.
I love this
The best explanation you can ever get. Wonderful masterpiece!
This is exactly what they did to Sri Lanka and IMF is still giving loans
China too, don't forget they own Sri Lanka and all the countries participating in the Silk and Road initiative. The only difference is that communist mafia is much harder to expose.
ya exactly they all are working on agenda 21 and new world order by rothschild and rockefeller
dont take vaccine covid is pre planned by her .... by 2030
loans with intrest is stupid because there is no way they can pay it back EVER so the debt is passed on to the next generation because they are told "THAT IS HOW THINGS WORK'
Next it’s Pakistan
they did that to many many countries but lets not eliminate the responsibility of the Sri Lanka politicians for such a quick downfall that happened nowhere else
Imagine destroying the lives of millions of families just so you can bring bread home to your family of 5.
Such people exist.
Love this series
Excellent and Needed Information.
i will love to watch more of ur videos. very insightful
Well explained and presented.
We are already experiencing 5 coups and political assassinations from Las year here in Africa. Real signs of economic hitmen as per national debt in sub saharan Africa
This just answered few of the questions, i had in years.
Decoded is the best content so far here. Keep it up.
Am very sad, but good to know this..because my beloved country is battling with being the victim of this economic hitman loan.
Everyone here interested in this topic should read the book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Book by John Perkins. Highly recommended
osm dear all of your those vdos are full of real knowledge and informative as well as practical.....i m big fan of ur shows thnx keep knowledging us🖒🖒🖒
Super like!! What a creative serie!!
This is what exactly what is going on in my country not only with the USA and Europe and with china now.
Money meant for medication in government hospitals and funding of projects as gone to debt servicing.
Brilliant how they keep flashing the IMF logo.👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Eye opening 🪟
Thanks 🙏
Excelente thank you !🙏🙏🙏it’s a real eye opener The middle man in the street just struggles to survive and all he worries is to work and keep his family going but years later we have more time to give it a thought why is it so difficult and stop to hear truthful stories of the real reality.Thank you for sharing 🙏🙏🙏 Peace Love and Light to all .🌎
Great content keep producing more in this series
I read Perkins book and I had a feeling he was gonna pop up on this video. Amazing, interesting, and a saddening book tbh.
Very educative about global economic dynamics.
Thank you Al Jazeera for shining light on this!
I remember reading the book from John Perkins
Wealth disparity can't be blamed on a few atypical people, it's the product of human nature. Corruption is not the problem - corruptibility is the problem. Arguably, religion in society can delay corruption but eventually that system fails too. Even some forms of dictatorship - rule by fear - can hold back corruption, or at least keep it contained at the top. But that doesn't last either. We think we're an enlightened species... sure, whatever helps you sleep at night. We are nothing if not ravenous.
👍 agree
Very very exceptional video.
I just like the way you do your show. Great commentary.
Not even a minute, and they won my like 👍
Bechtel has been trying to get Kenya to sign off on a USD 3Bn loan to finance a dual carriageway from Mombasa to Nairobi which is not a priority as repayments for the current USD 3Bn for SGR to China are being rescheduled due to inability to pay. Debt trap by China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is version of economic hits
Do you think it is intended to be a non priority project? Why do not they give the same loan for a priority project? It is to keep that country non developed in anyway and poor in my opinion beside the profit
Yap! True that! Kamwana screwed us sideways lol 😂. Hope nabii will not go down the same route,else we are kwinished!
Please shed more light on this,am on the dark
Excellent production.
This video is great, thank you
Sounds like a leverage buyout and what they did to Toy-R-us
This happens within this country the same with eliminating corporations..
The dynamics of what happened in 2008 during the housing market crash is a pure example..
has absolutely nothing to do with an of that s1ht. These economic hitman are sent by ur country the so called " beacon of democracy and freedom" to destablize poor countries and govts abroad thru "loans" they will never be able to pay back. When the US realizes these countries are in over their head with US debt they demand their pound of flesh and payment in return thru UN votes and if the country still resists they over throw the govt and democratically elected leaders by staging a coup. "This happens within this country" no it doesn't the Economic Hitman operate abroad. The US is itself corrupt and controlled by politicians. Economic Hitman's motives and task are not to eliminate corporations but entire govts many times democratically elected govts and as a result the livelihood of the common ppl in a poor developing 3rd world country gets ruined. There have many instances of the US govt actively supporting and funding foreign dictators just because they are puppets of America. Yet u are complaining about some rich US corporation ie Toys-R-Us which no one gives af about lmao. Wake tf up
Years ago, I did read this book, Confessions of an Economic Hitman. Profound! I like your thought process and how easily it can be applied in other areas of business... especially, for the small business etc. I like your work! Thank you :)
Thank you Mr. Waked for you heroic heart and your empathy. 👍🧐
Thanks! DECODED are an Amazing series - brutal truth
President Guillermo Lasso from Ecuador is definitely an economic hitman!
Please pray for Bangladesh 🇧🇩. It’s suffering from a cocktail of diseases including this very one.
The production is surely one of the kind 💪🏽
This was very good and eye opening video to me as A Finnish person, so these kinds of topics are not often brought up here in such detail, or not analyzed properly.
I read an economic hitman by John Perkins and was not really surprised, somewhere I knew deep down that what he wrote was true!. What a world we live in still the exploitation goes on and nothing has changed , same game with different actors!
It doesn't happen in the third world countries but also in the EU.......Germany grabbed from indebted Greece the state telecommunications organisation(now owned by Deutsche Telekom) and the airports
I’m falling in love with “Al Jazeera”
Thank you for awakening contents. 🌹
Great show
I see so many gurus of stock market trading offering courses to people by advertising in social media. Wonder how many actually benefits from these courses.
I believe this is an issue in Nepal as well. We ground citizens don't know about it.
I believe this situation happens in all countries with a varying degree.
Wonderful and very informative.
Well.....great acting acting. Nice dramatics. Love the ending guitar piece
The love of money is the root of all evil.
Keep exposing them...
It's great
Excellent presentation
Best series by any channel
For those interested, Michael Hudson is a prime resources about the financial colonialism used in global finance.
Russia does this too. China does this the most nowadays, especially in Africa.
At least they build infrastructure in return for loans and natural resources(ie Oil, Cobalt etc)
Just amazing!
Awesome guitar playing thanks! Important topics, please put credit for voice clips(the mystery ones saying alarming things, not the named in-Person interviews), and some links to key books or research studies. "Killing hope" re CIA meddling seems a brother book to "confessions.. economic hitman"
It does seem relevant that we should ask what trajectories (better or worse) affected countries would have gone on without these activities.