Ocupation: Author
Life: b. January 28, 1945
Birthday: January 28
The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.
source: John Perkins (2004). “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, p.12, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
topic: War, Iraq, Water, Military Spending, Sanitation, Anti War, Basic Education