.jpg "Image") John Perkins, a former economic hit man, is a founder and board member of Dream Change and the Pachamama Alliance, nonprofit organizations devoted to creating stable, sustainable, and peaceful worlds. He has lectured and taught at universities on four continents including Harvard, Wharton, and Princeton, and is a champion of environmental and social causes. His other books include Shapeshifting and The World Is As You Dream It.
John Perkins’s Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, which spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller lists and has been published in over 30 languages, details the clandestine operations that created the world’s first truly global empire. His new book, The Secret History of the American Empire (June 2007), provides a compassionate plan for crafting a world that future generations will be proud to inherit. In this talk he will share stories about the skullduggery that brought us to the brink of destruction and describe actions we can take to turn the tide.
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