We Economic Hitmen manage to create the worlds first truly global empire, and it's basically a secret empire. We do it many ways but principally we identify a country that has resources our corporations covet like oil. Arrange a huge loan for that country from the world bank or one of its sisters. The money never actually goes to that country it goes to one of our corporations to build the infrastructure projects in that country that help a few very wealthy people but don't help the majority of people who are too poor to buy electricity or buy cars to drive on the highways and yet they are left holding a huge amount of debt that they can't repay.

So we go back at some point and say, "you can't pay your debts. Give us a pound of flesh. Sell your oil real cheap to our oil companies. Vote with us on the next critical UN vote. Allow us to put a military base in your backyard." Something along these lines. And when we fail. The jackals go in to overthrow or assassinate their leaders. And if the jackals fail, as they did in Iraq, we send in the military.

I don't think the failure is Capitalism--I think it's a specific kind of Capitalism that we have developed. We've created what I consider a mutant, viral form of Capitalism. This mutant form of Capitalism which I think is really a predatory form of Capitalism has created an extremely unstable, unsustainable, unjust and very dangerous world.

I've met a lot of terrorists that interviewed for books. I never met one who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people. If we want to get rid of terrorism, we must get rid of the root causes: that cancer that is destroying the whole system. I think it's really important to understand today: we cannot have homeland security unless we understand that the whole planet is our homeland.