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

edited by Russ Kick
published by Disinformation Books
400 pp * ISBN 0966410076

Table of Contents

About Disinformation
Introduction/A Note to Readers

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Reality Is a Shared Hallucination | Howard Bloom

THE NEWS MEDIA AND OTHER MANIPULATORS
What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream | Noam Chomsky
Journalists Doing Somersaults | Norman Solomon
The Puppets of Pandemonium | Howard Bloom
New Rules for the New Millennium | Gary Webb
The Covert News Network | Greg Bishop
Why Does the Associated Press Change Its Articles? | Russ Kick
We Distort, You Abide | Kenn Thomas
The Media and Their Atrocities | Michael Parenti
Making Molehills Out of Mountains | Marni Sullivan
Why They Hate Oliver Stone | Sam Smith
The Martin Luther King You Don't See On TV | Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon
Sometimes Lying Means Only Telling a Small Part of the Truth | R.U. Sirius, et al
Upon Hearing of the Electronic Bogeyman | George Smith
School Textbooks | Earl Lee
The Information Arms Race | Douglas Rushkoff

POLITRICKS

The War Secrets Senator John McCain Hides | Sydney Schanberg
Jimmy Carter and Human Rights | Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon
All the President's Men | David McGowan
Oil Before Ozone | Russ Kick
God Save the President! | Robin Ramsay
Colony Kosovo | Christian Parenti
The Truth about Terrorism | Ali Abunimah
You Can't Win | James Ridgeway

OFFICIAL VERSIONS

Anatomy of a School Shooting | David McGowan
How the People Seldom Catch Intelligence | Preston Peet
Reassessing OKC | Cletus Nelson
Votescam | Jonathan Vankin
The Rabin Murder Coverup | Barry Chamish
What's Missing from This Picture? | Jim Marrs

THE SOCIAL FABRICATION

Don't Blame Your Parents | interview with Judith Rich Harris
The Female Hard-on | Tristan Taormino
Art and the Eroticism of Puberty | David Steinberg
"A World That Hates Gays" | Philip Jenkins
Apt Pupils | Robert Sterling
A Panic of Biblical Proportions over Media Violence | Paul McMasters
The Man in the Bushes | interview with Philip Jenkins

CONDEMNED TO REPEAT IT

Amnesia in America | James Loewen
Columbus and Western Civilization | Howard Zinn
Go Out and Kill People Because This Article Told You To | Nick Mamatas
Saving Private Power | Michael Zezima
What I Didn't Know about the Communist Conspiracy | Jim Martin

TRIPPING

Drug War Mythology | Paul Armentano
Toad-Licking Blues | Thomas Lyttle
Poppycock | Jim Hogshire
AA Lies | Charles Bufe
The Unconscious Roots of the Drug War | Dan Russell

HOLY ROLLING

The Truth about Jesus | M.M. Mangasarian
The Bible Code | David Thomas
Mystics and Messiahs | interview with Philip Jenkins
Who's Who in Hell | interview with Warren Allen Smith

BLINDED BY SCIENCE

Environmentalism for the Twenty-First Century | Patrick Moore
Humans Have Already Been Cloned | Russ Kick
NutraFear & NutraLoathing in Augusta, Georgia | Alex Constantine
Forbidden Archaeology | Michael Cremo
There Is So Much That We Don't Know | William R. Corliss

THE BIG PICTURE

Will the Real Human Being Please Stand Up? | Riane Eisler
You Are Being Lied To: A Disinformation Books Roundtable | Alex Burns
I Have Met God and He Lives in Brooklyn | Richard Metzger
Church of the Motherfucker | Mark Pesce
A Sentient Universe | Peter Russell
A Lost Theory? | David Loye

Appendix A: More Lies, Myths, and Manipulations | Russ Kick

Appendix B: More Reading | Russ Kick

Contributors & Interviewees

Article Histories

The views expressed above represent the writer and not necessarily those of The Disinformation Company Ltd.