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"Social movements may have many 'defeats'-failing to achieve objectives in the short run-but in the course of the struggle the strength of the old order begins to erode, the minds of people begin to change; the protesters are momentarily defeated but not crushed, and have been lifted, heartened, by their ability to fight back."

- Howard Zinn

CIVIL LIBERTIES Metropolitan Books / By James Peck

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"Are Your Humanitarian Heartstrings Being Tugged in the Name of Empire?"

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"Author James Peck's new book 'Ideal Illusions' challenges our basic assumptions about the universal crusade for human rights..."





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"These stories of human rights tragedies exploit our best aspirations in the name of the American imperial project, and the US has been funding this approach since the dawn of the Cold War. The media effect of filling a newspaper with human rights atrocities from the developing world functions to distract the audience from strategic and mineral designs the US and its allies have going in those countries, and to dilute the news coverage when their true aims come to light. The takeaway is that empire is the domain of storytellers as much as it is of Air Force generals."

Getting Along With Others Impacts the Bottom Line, Business Author Asserts

Getting along with all kinds of people – working in a highly diversified environment and being aware of diversity management techniques, results in better sales revenue, customer numbers and profitability, eBook author Susan Klopfer states.

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PRLog (Press Release) – Jun 03, 2011 – The author of a newly published eBook with a quirky title – Cash In On Diversity – asserts the more variations of people involved in an organization or business, the more financial success.

“It’s just this simple. Getting along with all kinds of people – working in a highly diversified environment and being aware of diversity management techniques, actually results in better sales revenue, customer numbers and profitability,” Susan Klopfer said, citing academic research and her own informal information gathering experiences as her sources.

Diversity eBook nominated for Global Award.

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