Everything You Know Is Wrong (Russ Kick)
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"Like so many other things, Everything You Know Is Wrong was affected by the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The clouds of toxic dust and smoke over Manhattan hadn't even dissipated when the attitude toward dissent suddenly changed. Questioning the authorities was equated with handing over a nuclear bomb to Osama bin Laden. (A very convenient atmosphere for those in power, no?) President Bush intoned, "You are either with us or against us in the fight on terror."' Attorney General Ashcroft declared that people who questioned his destructive police-state tactics "only aid terrorists."' Local news stories relayed incidents of citizens being harassed by the FBI and the police for besmirching the motives behind Operation Enduring Freedom or asking for stamps not bearing the US flag at the corner post office.' The snitch-line set up by the feds had received almost half a million tips by the beginning of 2002."--Everything You Know Is Wrong (2002) by Russ Kick "In his introduction to the first boolk in this series of Disinformation Guides, editor Russ Kick mulled over how nervy it felt to title a book You Are Being Lied To. Obviously, a book with a name like that had better deliver. Judging from the response to YABLT (as we call it around the office) from the reading public, the book did indeed come up with the goods. For our second Disinformation Guide, again helmed by Russ, we decided to up the ante considerably and title the damned thing Everything You Know is Wrong. [...] While the credibility of government sponsored "news" and information has long been considered suspect by both right (Waco, Ruby Ridge, etc.) and left (Chomsky, Herman, F.A.I.R., etc.), we've recently sensed a burgeoning perception by middle-of-the-road, mainstream Americans that "disinformation" is everywhere—medicine, science, finance, commerce, media—often sponsored by very complex webs of power and influence. Bestselling books like No Logo, Silent Takeover, Fast Food Nation, and Trust Us! We're Experts are creating widespread interest in how corporations don't play fair by manipulating the information found in magazines, newspapers, and television."
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Everything You Know Is Wrong (2002) is a book edited by Russ Kick.
Blurb
This book begins where You Are Being Lied To left off. Once again, an amazing group of investigative journalists, researchers, insiders, dissidents, and academics peels back consensus reality and shows us what's really happening. Hard, documented evidence on the most powerful institutions and controversial topics in the world. Among the revelations:
- Antidepressants trash your brain.
- China has repeatedly threatened to nuke the US.
- Young people are less violent now than they have been in over 30 years.
- Mad Cow disease is killing people in America.
Plus previously unpublished revelations about the International Monetary Fund, the Vatican Bank, the Olympic Games, Henry Lee Lucas, the drug war in South America, unpublicized accidents at nuclear power plants, and much more. Includes reproductions of rare documents and photos, including an unpublished eyewitness sketch of a mysterious third gunman at Columbine.
Table of contents
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 Senator's Ashes / Douglas Valentine -- Olympic Industry Mythology / Helen Jefferson Lenskyj -- The European Union Unmasked / Lindsay Jenkins -- Watchdog Nation / Cletus Nelson -- Henry: Fabrication of A Serial Killer / Brad Shellady -- The Monster of Florence / Rory Carroll -- Witnesses To A Massacre: Other Participants in Columbine / Russ Kick -- Charlie Manson's Image / Paul Krassner -- Free Lauriane / James Ridgeway With Sandra Bisin -- When Cops Become the Gangsters / Joseph D. Mcnamara -- Bovine Bioterrorism and the Perfect Pathogen / Gabe Kirchheimer -- Fear of A Vegan Planet / Micky Z. -- Mental Illness: Psychiatry's Phlogiston / Thomas Szasz -- Psychiatric Drugging of Children for Behavioral Control / Peter Breggin -- 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 -- Fission Stories: Nuclear Power's Secrets / David Lochbaum -- "Call It Off!": New Revelations About Waco / David 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 / K. Jamanadas -- Viva Kadaffi! / Robert Sterling -- Will This Be The Chinese Century? / Howard Bloom and Diane Starr Petryk-Bloom -- Scenes From a Secret War / Peter Gorman -- The Accidental Operative / Camelia Fard and James Ridgeway -- A Canticle for Osama Bin Laden / Alex Burns -- Battle Boring / Naomi Klein -- September 11, 2001: No Surprise / Russ Kick -- The Ludlow Massacre / Howard Zinn -- Mushroom Clouds in Paradise / Jack Niedenthal -- Some Lessons From the Underground History of American Education / John Taylor Gatto
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