I do not think so. It is said only in a very dramatic way, how it works. The US average citizen is hardly what it noticed and lulled accordingly by the press and all other media. What is told of John Perkins has little nice and everyone reading this should acquire. The US policy has no scruples and is always about profit maximization, under whatever conditions. There are other negative politicians, but the US is guided and patronized in an unprecedented degree of industry. It is a horror. One only has to look at the past 10 years that were affected by Paradestückchen. Iraq war no. 2 - built on a lie the Great Depression in 2007 (and which has arisen from it?) - The war of the banks -, etc. My confidence in the US policy is more than shaken.