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? 
<ul>
<li>Alcoholics Anonymous is effective.</li>
<li>Hackers pose a grave threat to the nation.</li>
<li>There's a hidden code in the Bible.</li>
<li>The Big Bang is an airtight fact.</li>
<li>Thousands of species have gone extinct because of deforestation.</li>
<li> Licking certain toads will get you high.</li>
<li>Most terrorists are Middle Eastern.</li>
</ul>
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: 
<ul>
<li>Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Sydney Schanberg on John McCain's efforts to conceal information on POW/MIAs</li>
<li>Howard Bloom on liars in the media</li>
<li>Riane Eisler on the realities of human nature</li>
<li>James Ridgeway on tainted blood and more</li>
<li>Jim Marrs on missing evidence in important cases</li>
<li>Greenpeace cofounder Peter Moore on environmental myths</li>
<li>Michael Parenti on atrocities in Kosovo</li>
<li>Douglas Rushkoff on the information arms race</li>
<li>Gary Webb on the gutless corporate media</li>
<li>Howard Zinn on Columbus</li>
</ul>

You Are Being Lied To: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths

Politics & Social Sciences

Kick, Russ

Philosophy

Disinformation Books

The best and most revealing interviews from the prococative TV series/DVD of the same name.
Richard Metzger presents the most compelling interviews from the hit TV series Disinformation, revealing mind-blowing thoughts from modern culture's most radical thinkers: 
<ul>
<li>Paul Laffoley on how to build a working time machine and a house made of vegetables</li>
<li>Douglas Rushkoff explains "media viruses"</li>
<li>Lucifer Principle author Howard Bloom on the coming biological apocalypse</li>
<li>Genesis P-Orridge on what it's like to be the leader of your own cult</li>
<li>Joe Coleman's collection of weird stuff</li>
<li>Robert Anton Wilson on The Illuminati and Aleister Crowley</li>
<li>Kembra Pfahler on The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black</li>
<li>Duncan Laurie on the forbidden science of radionics</li>
<li>Comic book author Grant Morrison (The Invisibles, JLA, X-Men) on sex magick</li>
<li>Hollywood's interest in underground culture and the best alien abduction story you'll ever hear!</li>
</ul>
Plus, many more modern revolutionaries (including philosopher Peter Russell, futurist Mark Pesce, and Apocalypse Culture's Adam Parfrey) expressing their thoughts, fears, enthusiasms, and predictions.

Disinformation: The Interviews.

Humor & Entertainment

Metzger, Richard

Movies

Grant Morrison's The Invisibles was the most ground-breaking and controversial comic book series of the last decade. A must-have for comics fans, this Guide features exhaustive, detailed analysis of the full six-year series as well as all-new, exclusive interviews with Morrison and many of the series' artists and editors.
Already featured in Disinformation: The Interviews and the accompanying TV series and DVD, Grant Morrison has been heavily promoted as a contemporary pop culture star, the first comics writer to be included as one of Entertainment Weekly's top 100 creative people in America. We will market the book aggressively to Morrison fan sites and comics, skate and punk zines.

Anarchy For The Masses: The Disinformation Guide to the Invisibles

Kereth Cowe-Spigai

Patrick Neighly

Literature & Fiction

How did a decade of love and peace end in Altamont and the Manson Family bloodbath? Gary Lachman explores the sinister dalliance of rock's high rollers and a new wave of occultists, tying together John Lennon, Timothy Leary, Mick Jagger, Brian Wilson, Charles Manson, Anton LaVey, Jim Morrison, L. Ron Hubbard and many more American cultural icons.

Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius

Gary Lachman

Religion & Spirituality

The third of Russ Kick's bestselling Disinformation Guides gathers another all-star line-up of exposés: 
<ul>
<li>Juries have ruled in recent trials that Watergate was really about a Democratic Party prostitution ring.</li>
<li>Ignored in the U.S. and distorted elsewhere, the Milosevic tribunal hasn't gone the way authorities were anticipating. (We present exclusive first-hand reporting from the trial).</li>
<li>Most theologians don't believe in the physical Resurrection of Jesus.</li>
<li>In 2001, the U.S. uncovered the biggest spy ring in the country since WWII, yet most people never heard about it.</li>
<li>The U.S. is engaging in bioweapons research that violates international treaties and federal law. (The New York Times knows about this but refuses to report it).</li>
<li>Teddy Roosevelt and Wall Street created Panama for profit.</li>
<li>Gandhi wasn't so wonderful, after all.</li>
</ul>These are just some of the revelations in the third of our all-star anthologies.Following up on bestsellers You Are Being Lied To and Everything You Know Is Wrong, editor Russ Kick has again assembled a line-up of leading investigative journalists, academics, activists, commentators, and independent researchers, covering CIA assassinations, the anthrax attacks, fluoride, TWA 800, Abraham Lincoln, child protective services, the tobacco industry, forgotten uprisings, the government's missing trillions, even more revelations about 9/11 and much more.
Contributors include Gary Webb, Greg Palast, Noreena Hertz, Howard Zinn, Douglas Valentine, Jim Hougan, Kristina Borjesson, Arianna Huffington and many more well-known writers--some of whom you'll be extremely surprised to see in these pages!

Abuse Your Illusions: The Disinformation Guide to Media Mirages and Establishment Lies (Disinformation Guides)

Social Sciences

The controversial bestseller that caused huge waves in the UK! The Independent calls it "required reading." Noam Chomsky says it "contains valuable information that we should know, over here, for our own good, and the world's." We call it our biggest book so far and will be backing it from day one with guaranteed co-op spending, a national publicity and review blitz, talk radio bookings, various retail sales aids including postcards, and of course the usual full court press on the Web and via email.
This is NOT just another 9/11 book: it is the book for those of us trying to understand why America--and Americans--are targets for hate. Many people do hate America, in Europe, Asia, South America and Africa, as well as in the Middle East. Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies explore the global impact of America's foreign policy and its corporate and cultural power, placing this unprecedented dominance in the context of America's own perception of itself. In doing so, they consider TV and the Hollywood machine as a mirror which reflects both the American Dream and the American Nightmare. Their analysis provides an important contribution to a debate which needs to be addressed by people of all nations, cultures, religions and political persuasions--and especially by Americans.
Described by The Times Higher Education Supplement as "packed with tightly argued points," the book is carefully researched and built to withstand the inevitable criticism that will be aimed at it. A book that some reviewers will love to hate and others will praise for its insights, it's guaranteed to cause a stir.

Why Do People Hate America?

History

SARDAR, Ziauddin

Davies, Merryl Wyn

Americas

Disinformation's "wicked warlock" Richard Metzger gathers an unprecedented cabal of modern occultists, magicians, and forward thinkers in this large format Disinformation Guide. Just as Russ Kick's Guides focusing on secrets and lies from the mainstream media, government, and other establishment institutions rethought what a political science book could look like and whom it would appeal to, Book of Lies redefines occult anthologies, packaging and presenting a huge array of magical essays for a pop culture audience. Just some of the contents: 
<ul>
<li>An introduction by comics genius Grant Morrison, who also contributes a three-part article on Pop Magick.</li>
<li>Mark Pesce, author of The Playful World, compares computer programming and spellcasting.</li>
<li>Genesis P-Orridge, father of Industrial Music and Rave culture explains how samples in a rave song can have magical consequences.</li>
<li>Paul Laffoley discusses his magical artistic strategies (Metzger compares Laffoley to Merlin the Magician).</li>
<li>Magical Thinking--an extended excerpt from Daniel Pinchbeck's Breaking Open the Head.</li>
<li>William Burroughs and the occult.</li>
<li>Nevill Drury, Australia's most noted occult writer, tells of Dion Fortune, Austin Spare, and Rosaleen Norton.</li>
<li>Why Does Aleister Crowley Still Matter?</li>
<li>Donald Tyson's "The Enochian Apocalypse Working." Were the seeds of the end of the world sown in the Elizabethan era?.</li>
<li>The first ever biographical essay on Marjorie Cameron, the fascinating character from Los Angeles' occult and beatnik scene.</li>
<li>Hitler and the occult--Peter Levenda interview by Tracy Twyman.</li>
<li>Robert Temple on how his book The Sirius Mystery's, controversial thesis (for which he was ridiculed) was proven by the Hubble telescope twenty-five years late.</li>
<li>An exclusive Anton LaVey interview by Michael Moynihan, author of best-selling book Lords of Chaos.</li>
<li>Erik Davis, author of Techgnosis, looks at H. P. -Lovecraft's Magick Realism.</li>
</ul>

Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult (Disinformation Guides)

Genre Fiction

Russ Kick has proved himself a master at uncovering facts that "they" would prefer you never hear about. The rapid success of the largeformat Disinformation Guide series edited by Kick has only whetted a roaring public appetite for more revelations about government coverups, scientific scams, corporate crimes, medical malfeasance, historical whitewashes, media manipulation, and other knockyoursocksoff secrets and lies.
 This CDsized book packs a powerful punch in a small, attractive package intended for impulse and gift purchases, as well as serving as a handy reference book. Among Kick's amazing discoveries, all thoroughly documented: 
<ul>The first genetically modified humans have already been born.<li>Hitler's blood relatives are living in the U.S.</li>
<li>The CIA commits over 100,000 serious crimes per year.</li>
<li>The U.S. planned to explode an atomic bomb on the moon.</li>
<li>An atomic bomb was dropped on North Carolina.</li>
<li>The main hero of the movie Black Hawk Down is a convicted child molester.</li>
<li>The discoverer of HIV no longer believes the virus is the sole cause of AIDS.</li>
<li>Kent State wasn't the only massacre of U.S. college students during the Vietnam era.</li>
<li>Lincoln didn't free any slaves.</li>
</ul>
A uniquely valuable tool to debunk modern mythology and the people and institutions serving it up.

50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know: Volume 1

Glitter & Greed: The Secret World of the Diamond Cartel

Rare, romantic, and forever: The diamond industry depends on these myths to reap billions of dollars of profit. This sensational investigation explodes such fallacies and -reveals how multimillion dollar advertising campaigns create the impression of rarity and romance. It reveals, too, a very secret and unromantic world, one that is dominated and controlled by a handful of mighty corporations.
Taking us through seven decades of intrigue and -manipulation that span the globe, Janine Roberts has written the most expansive and explosive exposé ever on diamonds; among Roberts' revelations: 
<ul>
<li>How De Beers hides away rich diamond deposits-and where some of these are located.</li>
<li>How a long-term companion of Jackie Onassis was a CIA-linked millionaire diamond merchant tied to coups and dictators in Central Africa.</li>
<li>Just how diamonds are "fixed" to make them more expensive.</li>
<li>How major diamond companies cooperated with Hitler's Germany-and how much they were paid.</li>
<li>How industrial diamond supplies were artificially -restricted to the United States during World War II, severely damaging its war effort and how U.S. Intelligence came to suspect treason.</li>
<li>How a major diamond deposit in Arkansas was sabotaged to stop it coming into production.</li>
<li>How the White House was manipulated into buying millions of diamonds it did not need and now must sell.</li>
<li>How terrorism found its way into the diamond trade, not recently but many decades ago.</li>
<li>How diamonds are secretly moved by the millions around the world.</li>
</ul>
The inquiry the diamond cartel did not want and tried to stop. . . . If you have ever wondered what tales might lie behind the glitter of a diamond ring, read this account of the most international media investigation ever launched!

Business & Money

Farrell-Robert, Janine

Economics

Lines in the Sand : New Writing on War and Peace

Described by Publishing News as "one of the hottest books of [the 2003 Bologna Children's Book Fair]," this is a challenging and thoughtprovoking collection of new poetry and prose from some of the world's most prestigious and talented children's authors and illustrators, with an original cover by Jane Ray. They were inspired by their feelings about the conflict in Iraq, though the wars covered range from a 13th Century Crusade, through the earlier wars of the 20th Century, to more recent conflicts in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Nigeria and Kosovo, right up to what was happening in Iraq in 2003.
With over 150 poems, stories and pictures about war and peace, Lines in the Sand offers hope for the future. Perfect for use in schools to help educate children when dealing with the topic of war, each contribution depicts a strong antiwar message and will serve as a cry for peace in these troubled times.
All royalties will go to UNICEF to directly fund the bringing of aid to child victims of the war in Iraq. We feel very strongly that there is currently nothing available to children and their parents and teachers that deals so articulately with the atrocities of war and how they affect children the world over. This is an important book in a time in which the antiwar movement is in danger of being silenced in America. It will be appreciated by children 7 up and adults of all ages.

Lines in the Sand: New Writing on War and Peace

Teen & Young Adult

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