You are being lied to
Subtitle: the disinformation guide to media distortion, historical whitewashes and cultural myths
By: edited by Russ Kick
Contributors: Bloom, Howard; Chomsky, Noam; Solomon, Norman; Webb, Gary; Bishop, Greg; Thomas, Kenn; Parenti, Michael; Sullivan, Marni; Smith, Sam; Cohen, Jeff; Sirius, R. U.; Horowitz, Michael; Friends of Timothy Leary; Smith, George; Lee, Earl; Rushkoff, Douglas; Schanberg, Sydney; McGowan, David; Peet, Preston; Nelson, Cletus; Vankin, Jonathan; Chamish, Barry; Marrs, Jim; Harris, Judith Rich; Taormino, Tristan; Steinberg, David; Jenkins, Philip; Sterling, Robert; McMasters, Paul; Loewen, James; Zinn, Howard; Mamatas, Nick; Zezima, Michael; Martin, Jim; Armentano, Paul; Lyttle, Thomas; Hogshire, Jim; Bufe, Charles; Russell, Dan; Mangasarian, M. M.; Thomas, David; Smith, Warren Allen; Moore, Patrick; Constantine, Alex; Cremo, Michael A.; Corliss, William R.; Eisler, Riane; Burns, Alex; Metzger, Richard; Pesce, Mark; Russell, Peter; Loye, David
Publisher: MJF Books, Fine Communications; MJF Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9781567318753
Copyright date: 2001
Subjects: Errors, inventions; Objectivity; Moral and ethical aspects; Mass media; History
Other titles: Disinformation guide to media distortion, historical whitewashes and cultural myths
Description: Do you believe any of the following? Alcoholics Anonymous is effective. Hackers pose a grave threat to the nation. There's a hidden code in the Bible. Thousands of species have become extinct because of deforestation. Licking certain toads will get you high. Most terrorists are Middle Eastern. Wake up! You Are Being Lied To. This book acts as a battering ram against the distortions, myths and outright lies that have been shoved down our throats by the government, the media, corporations, organized religion, the scientific establishment and others who want to keep the truth from us. An unprecedented group of researchers -- investigative reporters, political dissidents, academics, media watchdogs, scientist-philosophers, social critics and rogue scholars -- paints a picture of a world where crucial stories are ignored or actively suppressed and the official version of events has more holes in it than Swiss cheese. A world where read dangers are downplayed and nonexistent dangers are trumpeted. In short, a world where you are being lied to.
Table of contents: title: Keynote address.; title: Reality is a shared hallucination  -- Howard Bloom.; title: News media and other manipulators.; title: What makes mainstream media mainstream  -- Noam Chomsky; title: Journalists doing somersaults  -- Norman Solomon; title: Puppets of pandemonium  -- Howard Bloom; title: New rules for the new millennium  -- Gary Webb; title: Covert news network  -- Greg Bishop; title: Why does the Associated Press change its articles?  -- Russ Kick; title: We distort, you abide  -- Kenn Thomas; title: Media and their atrocities  -- Michael Parenti; title: Making molehills out of mountains  -- Marni Sullivan; title: Why they hate Oliver Stone  -- Sam Smith; title: Martin Luther King you don't see on TV  -- Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon; title: Sometimes lying means only telling a small part of the truth  -- R.U. Sirius, with Michael Horowitz and the Friends of Timothy Leary; title: Upon hearing of the electronic bogeyman  -- George Smith; title: School textbooks  -- Earl Lee; title: Information arms race  -- Douglas Rushkoff.; title: Politricks.; title: War secrets Senator John McCain hides  -- Sydney Schanberg; title: Jimmy Carter and human rights  -- Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon; title: All the president's men  -- David McGowan; title: Oil before ozone  -- Russ Kick; title: God save the president!  -- Robin Ramsay; title: Colony Kosovo  -- Christian Parenti; title: Truth about terrorism  -- Ali Abunimah; title: You can't win  -- James Ridgeway.; title: Official versions.; title: Anatomy of a school shooting  -- David McGowan; title: How the people seldom catch intelligence  -- Preston Peet; title: Reassessing the OKC  -- Cletus Nelson; title: Votescam  -- Jonathan Vankin; title: Rabin murder cover-up  -- Barry Chamish; title: What's missing from this picture?  -- Jim Marrs; title: Social fabrication.; title: Don't blame your parents / interview with -- Judith Rich Harris; title: female hard-on  -- Tristan Taormino; title: Art and the eroticism of puberty  -- David Steinberg; title: "A world that hates gays"  -- Philip Jenkins; title: Apt pupils  -- Robert Sterling; title: Panic of biblical proportions over media violence  -- Paul McMasters; title: Man in the bushes / interview with -- Philip Jenkins.; title: Condemned to repeat it.; title: Amnesia in America  -- James Loewen; title: Columbus and western civilization  -- Howard Zinn; title: Go out and kill people because this article tells you to  -- Nick Mamatas; title: Saving Private Power  -- Michael Zezima; title: What I didn't know about the communist conspiracy  -- Jim Martin.; title: Tripping. -- Drug war mythology /; title: Paul Armentano --; title: Toad-licking blues  -- Thomas Lyttle; title: Poppycock  -- Jim Hogshire; title: AA lies  -- Charles Bufe; title: Unconscious roots of the drug war  -- Dan Russell; title: Holy rolling.; title: Truth about Jesus  -- M.M. Mangasarian; title: Bible code  -- David Thomas; title: Mystics and messiahs / interview with -- Philip Jenkins; title: Who's who in hell / interview with -- Warren Allen Smith.; title: Blinded by science.; title: Environmentalism for the twenty-first century  -- Patrick Moore; title: Humans have already been cloned  -- Russ Kick; title: Nutrafear & nutraloathing in Augusta, Georgia  -- Alex Constantine; title: Forbidden archaeology  -- Michael A. Cremo; title: There is so much that we don't know  -- William R. Corliss.; title: Big picture.; title: Will the real human being please stand up?  -- Riane Eisler; title: You are being lied to : a disinformation books roundtable  -- Alex Burns; title: I have met God and he lives in Brooklyn  -- Richard Metzger; title: Church of the motherfucker  -- Mark Pesce; title: Sentient universe  -- Peter Russell; title: A lost theory? -- David Loye.