Product 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.
* The Big Bang is an airtight fact.
* Thousands of species have become extinct because of deforestation.
* Licking certain toads will get you high.
* Most terrorists are Middle Eastern.

Wake up! You're 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 real dangers are downplayed and nonexistent dangers are trumpeted. In short, a world where you are being lied to.

Among the revelations inside:

* Noam Chomsky on news as propaganda and media as big business
* Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Sydney Schanberg on John McCain's efforts to conceal information on POW/MIAs
* Howard Bloom on liars in the media
* Riane Eisler on the realities of human nature
* James Ridgeway on tainted blood and more
* Jim Marrs on missing evidence in important cases
* Greenpeace cofounder Patrick Moore on environmental myths
* Michael Parenti on 'atrocities' in Kosovo
* Douglas Rushkoff on 'the information arms race'
* Gary Webb on the gutless corporate media
* Howard Zinn on Columbus

You'll also discover that a human being has already been cloned; Joseph McCarthy was not paranoid; museums refuse to display artifacts that conflict with the theory of evolution; the CIA has admitted to involvement in the drug trade; parents don't affect who their children become; plus further revelations involving Columbine, WWII, textbooks, Al Gore, George W. Bush, Timothy Leary and much more.

Dispensing with speculation and theorizing, You Are Being Lied To cuts right to the bone with fact after substantiated fact. Think we're being told the truth? We're not ... and this book proves it.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #169990 in Books
• Published on: 2001-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 350 pages

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• ISBN13: 9780966410075
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From Library Journal
Containing expos?s on topics ranging from Columbus to Columbine, this collection of stimulating articles Disinformation Books' inaugural title challenges popular beliefs on the Big Bang and the depredations of hackers. Kick, author of Psychotropedia and a columnist for the Village Voice, has collected an impressive array of articles by such contributors as Sydney Schanberg of the New York Times, in which he asks why John McCain persistently blocks public disclosure of MIA files, and the lesser-known Jim Marrs, a Kennedy conspiracy zealot and freelance journalist who discusses missing data from historical tragedies, including the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations and the Lockerbie bombing. Do gay teens really constitute a suicidal risk group? Was Jesus a myth? The best articles will surely compel readers to pursue further reading; none should be accepted as exhaustive. Public libraries ought to invest in a copy to keep alongside other sources of skepticism; academic libraries will find the scholarship uneven but provocative. [You may obtain a free e-book copy of this title if you purchase the paperback from http://store.disinfor.com; the e-book may also be purchased separately for $8.85. Ed.] Robert C. Moore, ITworld.com, Southboro, M.
- Robert C. Moore, ITworld.com, Southboro, MA
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review
"... a bargain ... well worth owning" -- Counterpoise, Vol. 5, No. 3/4

A beautiful new coffee-table book has come out from Disinformation: a compendium of anarchic, crazed, and politically radical writing. -- San Francisco Bay Guardian, March 28, 2001

For some of the most fascinating reading you'll find this year - or even this millennium - ... order this gem. -- Impact Weekly (Dayton, OH), April 19-25, 2001

It's...less radical than some extremist conspiracy theory books, yet that's something that makes the pieces all the more believable. -- Dazed & Confused, September 2001

Taken as a whole, this anthology represents an instruction manual in how to "read" the news. -- PW (Publishers Weekly)Daily, Book of the Day, Oct. 31, 2001

The only way you're going to find out what's really going on is to open up this 400 page compilation -- Vice Magazine, Volume 8 Number 5, The Summer Kids Issue

The shocking truth is not something you see every day, but this book knows exactly where to look. -- A&F Quarterly, Back To School Issue 2001

The writing is penetrating, uncompromising and pretty convincing... -- Philadelphia Weekly, April 11, 2001

This amazing, candid, and documented compilation of essays ... is enthusiastically recommended reading. -- Midwest Book Review - May 2001

To cut through the lies and manipulation of daily life, this is the place to start ... very highly recommended. -- Midwest Book Review's Internet Bookwatch, July 2001

From the Publisher
This is the first in a planned series of Disinformation Guides. We chose Russ Kick as the editor of Disinformation Books because he is without doubt the best qualified candidate for the job. Once you see this book, we're sure you will agree with us that we made the right choice. The book contains 68 essays by 60 authors, is 400 pages long and measures 9"x12" - and its absolutely jammed with revelation after substantiated revelation.

Russ has assembled a literally unprecedented line-up of investigative reporters, activists, academics, parapolitical researchers, media watchdogs, scientist-philosophers, social critics, and rogue scholars. Many are very well-known: Howard Bloom, Noam Chomsky, Riane Eisler, Jim Marrs, Michael Parenti, James Ridgeway, Douglas Rushkoff, Gary Webb, Howard Zinn, and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Sydney Schanberg.

Other contributors are very well-known within their fields, which include parapolitics, media criticism, drugs, radical science, sociology, environmentalism, sex radicalism, and hidden history.

In case you are not aware of the Disinformation brand, this is the "About Disinformation" text that appears at the front of the book:

Disinformation is more than it seems. Literally. From early beginnings almost a decade ago as an idea for an alternative Sixty Minutes-type TV news show to the book that you are now holding, Richard Metzger and Gary Baddeley have taken a dictionary term and given it secondary meaning to a wide audience of hipsters, thinkers, anti-establishmentarians and the merely curious.

The Disinformation Web site went live on September 13, 1996 to immediate applause from the very same news media that it was criticizing as being under the influence of both government and big business. The honeymoon was short – some three weeks after launch the CEO of the large US media company funding the site discovered it and immediately ordered it closed down. Needless to say, Metzger and a few loyal members of his team managed to keep the site going and today it is the largest and most popular alternative news and underground culture destination on the Web, having won just about every award that’s ever been dreamed up.

Disinformation is also a TV series, initially broadcast on the UK’s Channel 4, a music imprint in the US in a joint venture with Sony Music’s Loud Records, and a huge counterculture conference, the first of which was held shortly after the turn of the Millennium in 2000. By the time this book rests in your hands Disinformation will probably have manifested itself in other media too. Based in New York City, The Disinformation Company Ltd. is a vibrant media company that Baddeley and Metzger continue to helm. They continue to look for the strangest, freakiest and most disturbing news and phenomena in order to balance the homogenized, sanitized and policed fare that is found in the traditional media.

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