Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. After selling IPS in 1990, John became a champion for indigenous rights and environmental movements, working especially closely with Amazon tribes to help them preserve their rain forests. He wrote five books, published in many languages, about indigenous cultures, shamanism, ecology, and sustainability; taught at universities and learning centers on four continents; and founded and served on the board of directors of several leading nonprofit organizations.

Blackwater now in the private intelligence business.

Imagine yourself in the following situation. You sign up for a psychology experiment, and on a specified date you and seven others whom you think are also subjects arrive and are seated at a table in a small room. You dont know it at the time, but the others are actually associates of the experimenter, and their behavior has been carefully scripted. Youre the only real subject. What would you do? In 1951 social psychologist Solomon Asch devise.