Everything You Know Is Wrong
The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Liesedited by Russ Kick
published by The Disinformation Company
oversized softcover * 352 pp * $24.95 * ISBN 0-9713942-0-2
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Richard Metzger
Introduction
LUCRE
Burn the Olive Tree, Sell the Lexus
Greg Palast and Oliver Shykles
Drug Companies: Sell Hard, Sell Fast . . . and Count the Bodies Later
Arianna Huffington
The Vatican Bank
Jonathan Levy
The Antitrust and Monopoly Myth
Dominick T. Armentano
Dirty Money and Global Banking Secrecy
Lucy Komisar
Globalization for the Good of All
Noreena Hertz
THE HIGH AND MIGHTY
The Senator's Ashes: Bob Kerrey, CIA War Crimes, and the Need for a War Crimes Trial
Douglas Valentine
Olympic Industry Mythology: A Consumer's Guide
Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
The European Union Unmasked: Dictatorship Revealed
Lindsay Jenkins
Watchdog Nation
Cletus Nelson
TRUE TRUE CRIME
Henry: Fabrication of a Serial Killer
Brad Shellady
The Monster of Florence: Serial Killings Lead to Italy’s High Society
Rory Carroll
Witnesses to a Massacre: Other Participants in Columbine
Russ Kick
Charlie Manson's Image
Paul Krassner
Free Lauriane: Father Claims Daughter Molested, Held Political Prisoner in France
James Ridgeway with Sandra Bisin
When Cops Become the Gangsters
Joseph D. McNamara
MIND AND BODY
Bovine Bioterrorism and the Perfect Pathogen: Mad Cow Disease Is Sweeping the World--Including the US
Gabe Kirchheimer
Fear of a Vegan Planet
Mickey Z.
Mental Illness: Psychiatry's Phlogiston
Thomas Szasz
Psychiatric Drugging of Children for Behavioral Control
Peter Breggin, M.D.
SOCIAL DISTORTION
Myths About Youth
Mike Males
The Whole Truth About Domestic Violence
Philip W. Cook
Postcards From the Planet of the Freaks
Lucy Gwin
Toxic TV Syndrome
Kalle Lasn
Treatment or Jail: Is This Really a Choice?
Preston Peet
Pornography
Wendy McElroy
Prostitution
Wendy McElroy
Two's Too Tough
Tristan Taormino
How to Rid the World of Good
Nick Mamatas
Why Women Need Freedom From Religion
Annie Laurie Gaylor
NOT ON THE NIGHTLY NEWS
Fission Stories: Nuclear Power's Secrets
David Lochbaum
"Call It Off!": New Revelations About Waco
David T. Hardy
The Bombing of PanAm Flight 103: Case Not Closed
William Blum
Leaders Against the Drug War
Russ Kick
Votescam 2000
Jonathan Vankin
Untouchables in the Twenty-first Century: The Plight of Dalits in India
Dr. K. JamanadasViva Kadaffi!
Robert Sterling
Will This Be the Chinese Century?
Howard Bloom and Diane Starr Petryk-Bloom
Scenes From a Secret War: The Importance of Peru's Complicity in Plan Colombia and How It Has Been Assured
Peter Gorman
911 AND BEYOND
The Accidental Operative: Former CIA Director’s Afghan Niece Leads Corps of Taliban Reps
Camelia Fard and James Ridgeway
A Canticle for Osama Bin Laden
Alex Burns
Battle Boring: Why Real Security Can't Be Cordoned Off
Naomi Klein
September 11, 2001: No Surprise
Russ Kick
HIDDEN HISTORY
The Ludlow Massacre
Howard Zinn
Mushroom Clouds in Paradise: A Brief Historical Overview of the People of Bikini Atoll
Jack Niedenthal
Some Lessons From the Underground History of American Education
John Taylor Gatto
APPENDICES
Appendix A: More Secrets and Lies
Russ Kick
Short takes on 35 subjects. Includes: "One Nation, Under the Corporation, Ruled by Multimillionaires," "Sara Lee, Serial Killer," "Monsanto: Read and Destroy," "Coca-Killah," "ExxonMobil: Put a Torturer in Your Tank," "Minimum Rage," "Crime Waves Around the World," "West Nile Virus Keeps on Flowin'," "Good News About AIDS Ignored," "Wormwood + Iron = Dead Cancer Cells," "Gulf War Health Problems: Evidence," "Take the Vaccine Challenge!," "World's First Major Study of Pot, Round One," "Hollywood: The Propaganda Machine," "Pedo-priests to Be Tried in Secret Church Tribunals," "Bush Is a Dictator, Says Republican Congressman," "Kissinger Lied About East Timor," "Israel's Spy Ring in the US," "Mining the Moon," "Rainbow Killing," "Exotic Weapons on the Official Record," "Army and CIA Admit They Create Anthrax," "Scary Quotes After the Sept. 11 Attacks," plus little-known info on heart attacks, the plague, Tyson Foods, new votescams, US bombings, civilian deaths in Afghanistan, and the income tax.
Appendix B: More Reading
Russ Kick
A look at 35 non-mainstream books, including hard-edged examinations of Kissinger, Clinton, the IRS, the Federal Reserve, water wars, crimes by clergy, innocent people in prison, medical evidence for natural medicine, sex over 60, antidepressants, guns, Islam, Rwanda, the Oklahoma City Bombing, the National Security Agency, the swastika, Japanese spying, non-voting, and environmentalism, plus exposés of the auto, fast food, and tobacco industries. Includes coverage of a book on serial killers by a serial killer, a US judge's attack on the Drug War, a former police chief's look at police corruption and abuse, and a work of fiction that triggered the arrest of its author (in America).
Appendix C: Publisher Information
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