You Are Being Lied To: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths by Russ Kick (PDF)

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You Are Being Lied To is a massive collection of articles that ruthlessly destroy the distortions, myths, and outright lies that are fed to us by the government, the media, corporations, history books, organized religion, science and medicine, and society in general. No one is spared, and all sacred cows are candidates for the grinder.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 gone 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:Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Sydney Schanberg on John McCain’s efforts to conceal information on POW/MIAsHoward Bloom on liars in the mediaRiane Eisler on the realities of human natureJames Ridgeway on tainted blood and moreJim Marrs on missing evidence in important casesGreenpeace cofounder Peter Moore on environmental mythsMichael Parenti on atrocities in KosovoDouglas Rushkoff on the information arms raceGary Webb on the gutless corporate mediaHoward Zinn on Columbus

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Editorial Reviews: 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. 3/4A 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, 2001For 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, 2001It’s…less radical than some extremist conspiracy theory books, yet that’s something that makes the pieces all the more believable. — Dazed & Confused, September 2001Taken 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, 2001The 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 IssueThe shocking truth is not something you see every day, but this book knows exactly where to look. — A&F Quarterly, Back To School Issue 2001The writing is penetrating, uncompromising and pretty convincing… — Philadelphia Weekly, April 11, 2001This amazing, candid, and documented compilation of essays … is enthusiastically recommended reading. — Midwest Book Review – May 2001To 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. We hope you will enjoy the book and please post your feedback here on amazon. From the Author The 20th Century was an era of great achievement. It was also an era of genocide. It was an era of media expansion. And it was an era in which the media lied. We moved from newspapers with circulations of a million in 1900 to the rollout of 600 radio stations in 1922, of television in the 1950s, and of the Internet and the World Wide Web when the century ended. But we inched no further toward the truth. Mass murders in the Soviet Union took an estimated 40 million lives in the 20th Century. Mass killings in Mao’s China took another 40 million. Between 1963 and 1999 over a million died in the ongoing battles between Central Africa’s Hutus and Tutsis. Between 1975 and 1979, 1.5 million lost their lives in the killing fields of Cambodia. Yet none of these crimes against humanity made headlines until it was far too late. Similar savageries are taking place today, but once again we are all too blind. Sometimes the reason has been media ignorance or indifference. Sometimes it’s been press enthusiasm for the “ideals” of the killers, or, worse, sheer cowardice. In the 1930s, Geoffrey Dawson, editor of the Times of London, was less disturbed by the atrocities unfolding in Germany than he was by the idea of offending the Nazis. He wrote to a friend, ‘I simply cannot understand why they should be so much annoyed with The Times at this moment. I spend my nights in taking out anything which I think will hurt their susceptibilities, and in dropping in little things which are intended to soothe them.’ William Randolph Hearst was no better. He ordered his German correspondent to stop sending stories he called ‘incendiary.’ If the media won’t tell us what’s truly important, then it’s up to us to ferret out the facts for ourselves. You Are Being Lied To is a good place to start. —(Howard Bloom, author of the book’s Keynote Address and author of “The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History”) About the Author Russ Kick is the author of 50 Things You’re Not Supposed To Know, Volumes 1 & 2, and The Disinformation Book of Lists. He is the editor of Everything You Know Is Wrong, Abuse Your Illusions, Everything You Know About Sex Is Wrong, and Everything You Know About God Is Wrong. Read more

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐Excellent! Excellent! Excellent! I liked the book so much I bought several others he’s written.

⭐This book is a collection of articles on a variety of topics, giving the reader a glimpse of dissident views and evidence that contradict official and established notions on a variety of topics. The quality of the articles varies, as some researchers and journalists examine their issue more thoroughly than others. Once you recognize you are being lied to, you next must wonder how accurate any “alternative” theory is. Research these topics in more detail, as the articles in this text only give a partial or distorted picture of the realities they propose to examine. Disinfo has done a great service of providing a forum for suppressed information and views, and this book provides a good variety of articles to introduce readers to some thought-provoking ideas.

⭐Simply swaps out old potential lies and misrepresentations for new potential lies and misrepresentations.

⭐Most of the book is informative, but since the book is written by different authors, some of the articles are questionable and maybe just express the opinion of the respective authors.I bought the book for its section on Christianity, which is quite informative, but most of it I had read elsewhere.

⭐Well thought out arguments with plenty of factual information to back it up. Some of the writing is full of speculation and can be a bit preachy at times. Overall an interesting read for gaining alternative perspectives.

⭐Much of it is speculation, but thought-provoking. It’s been around awhile and some of the info is outdated, but it’s still a good book book for information about how the media operates–liberal or conservative and the jargon that has many different meanings.

⭐more truth about the ugly lies of the world. Good, yet disheartening. We’re so screwed

⭐I like to read this while on the toilet. My roommates keep asking me why I keep screaming obscenities at myself whenever I need to answer the call of nature. Hey man, I’ve been lied to!

⭐A bit frightening how we are all subject to the manipulations of big business, moguls and advertising.You’ve seen how the internet has changed from a collaborative interesting place to just another shopping experience – guess how that happened!!History and media, politics and communications, propaganda and big business, military and society. A great insight.

⭐Interesting material,plenty of food for thought.

⭐very eye openin

⭐as all the disinfo books – amazing and dirt cheap

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