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DESCRIPTION:Wednesday, May 2 at 7:00 PM \n\nA GAME AS OLD AS EMPIRE \n\nBook Discussion 
 with Editor Steven Hiatt and Contributors Ellen Augustine and Antonia 
 Juhasz \n\nNew College Theater, 777 Valencia Street, San Francisco \n\nJoin 
 us to hear A Game As Old As Empire editor Steven Hiatt and contributors 
 Ellen Augustine and Antonia Juhasz speak about how the economic hit man 
 game is being played and what we can do to fight back against this global 
 system of exploitation. \n\nJohn Perkins' controversial and bestselling 
 exposé, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, revealed for the first time 
 the secret world of economic hit men (EHMs). But Perkins' Confessions 
 contained only a small piece of this sinister puzzle. The full story is far 
 bigger, deeper, and darker than Perkins' personal account revealed. \n\nIn 
 A Game As Old As Empire other EHMs, journalists, and investigators join 
 Perkins to tell their own stories, providing the first probing and 
 expansive look into this pervasive web of systematic corruption. With 
 chapters spotlighting how specific countries around the globe have been 
 subverted, A Game As Old As Empire uncovers the inner workings of the 
 institutions behind these economic manipulations. The contributors detail 
 concrete examples of how the "economic hit man game" is still being played: 
 an officer of an offshore bank hiding hundreds of millions of dollars in 
 stolen money, IMF advisers slashing Ghana's education and health programs, 
 a mercenary defending a European oil company in Nigeria, a consultant 
 rewriting Iraqi oil law, and executives financing warlords to secure 
 supplies of coltan ore in Congo. Together they show how this system of 
 corruption and plunder operates in real life, and reveal the price that the 
 rest of the world must pay as a result. A Game As Old As Empire connects 
 the dots, showing how the various pieces of this system come together to 
 create the world's first truly global empire. \n\nFREE and open to the 
 public. \n\nCo-Sponsored by: New College Center for Education and Social 
 Action, Global Exchange and Modern Times Bookstore. \n\nFor more 
 information contact: Marina Cook Berrett-Koehler Publishers phone: 
 (415)743-6468, mcook [at] bkpub.com or Berrett-Koehler. \n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/04/28/18406302.php
SUMMARY:A Game As old As Empire - Book Event with Steven Hiatt, Ellen Augustine and Antonia Juhasz
LOCATION:New College Theater, 777 Valencia Street, San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/04/28/18406302.php
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