Economic Hitman John Perkins on The ‘Death Economy’, Decline of the US Empire & the Rise of China

Episode 6 May 19, 2025 00:27:25
Economic Hitman John Perkins on The ‘Death Economy’, Decline of the US Empire & the Rise of China
Going Underground Hosted by Afshin Rattansi
Economic Hitman John Perkins on The ‘Death Economy’, Decline of the US Empire & the Rise of China

May 19 2025 | 00:27:25

/

Show Notes

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman. He discusses why he believes Donald Trump is trying to become a dictator, Trump’s attempts to pressure Netanyahu as the Gaza genocide rages on, Trump’s axing of USAID as China rises while the US becomes isolationist, the degenerative death economy polluting and consuming itself into extinction, the rise of a new class of oligarchs under predatory capitalism, Latin America’s economic shift towards China and China’s solutions to some of the problems the US has created, the threat of nuclear war, AI, and destruction of the climate, and much more.

Other Episodes

Episode 24

April 13, 2024 00:28:25
Episode Cover

The Russian Art of War: How the West Led Ukraine to Defeat (Col. Jacques Baud)

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Col. Jacques Baud, a former analyst for NATO who...

Listen

Episode 27

April 24, 2023 00:28:28
Episode Cover

Seymour Hersh on his BOMBSHELL Report of Zelensky Embezzling $400 Million from US Aid to Ukraine

On this special episode of Going Underground, we speak to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh on his new report that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky...

Listen

Episode 26

November 23, 2024 00:28:27
Episode Cover

Jimmy Dore on Ukraine & WW3: Biden Wants a War that Trump CAN’T Stop, ONLY Hope is Putin’s Restraint

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Jimmy Dore, the Host of the Jimmy Dore Show....

Listen