Abuse Your Illusions: The Disinformation Guide to Media Mirages and Establishment LiesRuss Kick Red Wheel Weiser, 2003 M05 1 - 352 pages The third of Russ Kick’s bestselling Disinformation Guides gathers another all-star line-up of exposés:
These are just some of the revelations in the third of our all-star anthologies. Following up on bestsellers You Are Being Lied To and Everything You Know Is Wrong, editor Russ Kick has again assembled a line-up of leading investigative journalists, academics, activists, commentators, and independent researchers, covering CIA assassinations, the anthrax attacks, fluoride, TWA 800, Abraham Lincoln, child protective services, the tobacco industry, forgotten uprisings, the government's missing trillions, even more revelations about 9/11 and much more. Contributors include Gary Webb, Greg Palast, Noreena Hertz, Howard Zinn, Douglas Valentine, Jim Hougan, Kristina Borjesson, Arianna Huffington and many more well-known writers—some of whom you’ll be extremely surprised to see in these pages! |
Contents
Preface Richard Metzger | 8 |
Introduction | 9 |
Wny an American Reporter Had to Leave the Country to Report the News Greg Palast 1 7 Watergate Redux The Washington Post and the Party Line ... | 17 |
The Drug Wars Shills Michael Levines | 24 |
Setting the Record Straight Regarding Tailwind April Oliver | 39 |
Why UN Inspectors Left Iraq in 1998 Jim Naureckas | 55 |
The Pentagons New Biochenical Warriors The Sunshine Project | 56 |
Cuban Political Prisoners in the United States VAlliam Blum | 67 |
Are Secrecy Oaths a License to Lie? Daniel Ellsberg | 194 |
What Is a Terrorist? Jeff Cohen | 197 |
Pieces of the 911 Puzzle Russ Kick | 199 |
War Against Terrorism or Expansion of the American Errpire? VWliam Blum | 228 |
Mourning the Dead Wherever They May Be Howard Zinn | 235 |
A Bridge From Democracy to Dictatorship Ritt Goldstein | 241 |
Bill of Rights R I P Nancy Talanian | 245 |
Creating Panama for Funds and Profit Ovidio DiazEspino | 250 |
How I Crashed a Chinese Arms Bazaar Wth a Rifle That Doesnt Exist Jakob S Boeskov | 71 |
The Mysterious Decline of Men on Carrpus Philip W Cook and Glenn J Sacks | 77 |
The Kwangju Uprising and the US lick Marmtas | 82 |
The Troubling Death of Microbiologist Don VWey Wayne Madsen | 87 |
The Pedophilia Files Sandra Bisin | 104 |
What Albert Speer Can Teach Government Officials About Accepting Responsibility Daniel Ellsberg | 114 |
The Underside of De Beers Diamonds Janine Roberts | 120 |
Corporations Claim the Right To Lie Thom Hartnann | 127 |
Dirty Players of World Finance Lucy Konisar | 130 |
Rape and Sexual Harassment in the US Military Terri Spahr Nelson | 141 |
Pulling Over Minority Motorists as an Excuse to Search Their Cars Gary Webb | 146 |
Invasion of the ChildSnatchers Diane PetrykBloom | 161 |
The Agency and the Atom The CIAs Radiation Weapons Programs and Experiments on Humans John Kelly | 170 |
The Wnite House Carrpaign Against Drug Reform Initiatives Daniel Forbes | 178 |
The Man Wno Invented Nornal Lucy Gwin | 187 |
Atrocities Against German POWs and Civilians During and After VWVII James Bacque | 261 |
Inside Sciences Closet Richard Zacks | 268 |
The Nostalgia Industry and Good Old Days Mythology Mickey | 272 |
The Secret Behind the Creation of the United Nations Stephen Schlesinger | 278 |
Americas Forgotten Female Astronauts Stephanie Nolen | 284 |
The Lilly Suicides Richard DeGrandpre | 289 |
The Fluoridation Fraud Robert Sterling | 302 |
How Allah Has Nipped Your Right to Know Howard Bloom | 321 |
A Shrine for the Twentyfirst Century Jonathan Levy | 327 |
Ron Sirhan Manson and Me Paul Krassner | 332 |
Black Is Not Beautiful Richard Abanes | 339 |
Contributors | 344 |
Article Histories | 350 |
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