New PDF release: You are Being Lied To: The Disinformation Guide to Media

ISBN-10: 0966410076

ISBN-13: 9780966410075

"You Are Being Lied To" is an enormous number of articles that ruthlessly damage the distortions, myths, and outright lies which are fed to us by way of the govt., the media, businesses, historical past books, geared up faith, technological know-how and medication, and society more often than not. nobody is spared, and all sacred cows are applicants for the grinder.

Do you suspect any of the following?
Alcoholics nameless is effective.
Hackers pose a grave danger to the nation.
There's a hidden code within the Bible.
The immense Bang is an hermetic fact.
Thousands of species have long past extinct due to deforestation.
Licking yes toads gets you high.
Most terrorists are heart Eastern.

Wake up! You're being lied to.

This ebook acts as a battering ram opposed to the distortions, myths, and outright lies which have been shoved down our throats by means of the govt., the media, organisations, equipped faith, the clinical institution, and others who are looking to hold the reality from us. An unheard of team of researchers--investigative newshounds, political dissidents, lecturers, media watchdogs, scientist-philosophers, social critics, and rogue scholars--paints an image of a global the place an important tales are overlooked or actively suppressed and the legit model of occasions has extra holes in it than Swiss cheese. a global the place actual risks are downplayed and nonexistent risks are trumpeted. in brief, a global the place you're being lied to.

Among the revelations inside:
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Sydney Schanberg on John McCain's efforts to hide info on POW/MIAs
Howard Bloom on liars within the media
Riane Eisler at the realities of human nature
James Ridgeway on tainted blood and more
Jim Marrs on lacking facts in vital cases
Greenpeace cofounder Peter Moore on environmental myths
Michael Parenti on atrocities in Kosovo
Douglas Rushkoff at the details fingers race
Gary Webb at the gutless company media
Howard Zinn on Columbus

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Maybe he felt a little better after he branded Allen Dulles the fall guy and fired him for screwing things up. Dulles was the spymaster extraordinaire who had run the CIAwith an iron fist for almost ten years. His experience in covert operations stretched back to at least World War II when he was the Office of Strategic Services station chief in Switzerland. The OSS was the breeding ground for many future movers and shakers in the CIA. After the war, the Machiavellian spirit took over the OSS as the organization arranged for the wholesale US importation of and legal immunity for hundreds of German scientists under Project Paperclip.

But the atrocities of the Viet Cong were airbrushed out of existence. And my impression these days is that the Viet Cong’s outrages were the worst of the two. Meanwhile, journalists like Hedrick Smith shout loudly about the Israeli lobby, while pretending that an Arab lobby dwarfing it in size and resources does not exist. der deployments before the 1948 war of liberation and passed them on to the Saudis. In addition, companies like Ford, General Electric, and numerous other lobbies woo the press actively on behalf of the Arabs under the umbrella of the Arab American Chamber of Commerce.

Raising the bar” was the usual trick they used to avoid printing troublesome news. The squeamish demanded an admission of wrongdoing (preferably written) or an official government report confirming the story’s charge. What that means, of course, is that stories about serious, unacknowledged abuses never get printed, and eventually reporters learn not to waste their time turning over rocks if no one will officially confirm when something hideous slithers out. And once that happens, they cease being journalists and become akin to the scribes of antiquity, whose sole task was to faithfully record the pharaoh’s words in clay.

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