Forget the DaVinci Code

AlterNet: A Game As Old As Empire

If you want to read a great conspiracy story, you can't go past this one and it's true.

The link is to an interview with John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and it talks about his time with Chas. T. Main, a Boston based international consulting firm that worked with (persuaded) countries to take on infrastructure development loans which were given on the proviso that American firms provide the construction services.

Most of the recipients of these loans have fallen into a situation where they cannot repay these loans and have been forced into submission by aid agencies and other organisatons like the World Bank. Now here's the scary part, this is not a by product of well meaning investors, it was the original intention.

Read the article and let other people know. You'll only read it in the independant media.