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EVERYTHING
YOU KNOW IS THE DISINFORMATION GUIDE TO SECRETS AND
LIES
• howard bloom • howard zinn • paul krassner • william blum • arianna huffington • noreena hertz • thomas szasz • greg palast • james ridgeway • wendy Mcelroy • kalle lasn • richard metzger • tristan taormino • Jonathan vankin • peter breggin, m.d. • lucy komisar • mike males • john taylor gatto • edited by russ kick
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EVERYTHING
YOU KNOW IS THE DISINFORMATION GUIDE TO SECRETS AND EDITED BY RUSS KICK
LIES
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The Disinformation® Website went
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as being under the influence of both government and big business. the large
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and immediately ordered
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it
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after
it
was
criticizing
launch the
CEO
of
closed down. Needless to say, Metzger and a few loyal
team managed to keep the site going and today is the largest and most popular Web, having won just about every award that's ever been dreamed up. it
news and underground
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Kick, a Village Voice columnist,
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has collected essays from
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You Are Being Lied To 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
Includes contributions from
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and subversive TV show
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first
probably have manifested
articles in
to
keep the
truth
from us.
Noam Chomsky, Howard
Zinn,
Howard Bloom, Michael
Parenti,
Norman Solomon, Douglas
Marrs, Judith Rich Harris, Tristan Taormino, Jim Hogshire, Riane Eisler, Peter Russell, and dozens
all!
ABOUT DISINFORMATION
Acknowledgments About Disinfornnation Kichard Metzger Preface
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Introduction
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Drug Companies:
Lexus
Sell the
Burn the Olive Tree,
Greg Palast and Oliver Shykles
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Sell Hard, Sell
...
and Count the Bodies Later
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Arianna Huffington
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onathan Levy The Vatican Bank The Antitrust and Monopoly Myth Dominick T. Armentano Lucy Komisar Dirty Money and Global Banking Secrecy Noreena Hertz Globalization for the Good of All i
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The Senator's Ashes
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Douglas Valentine Hpien Jefferson Lenskyj Olympic Industry Mythology The European Union Unmasked Lindsay Jenkins Watchdog Nation Cletus Nelson |
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CRIME
Henry: Fabrication of a Serial
The Monster
of Florence
Killer
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Brad Shellady
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Witnesses to a Massacre: Other Participants in Columbine Russ Kick Charlie Manson's Image Paul Krassner - ^iHnevA/ay with Sandra Bisin Free Lauriane When Cops Become the Gangsters Joseph D. McNamara
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_MIND AND BODY Bovine Bioterrorism and the Perfect Pathogen Fear of a Vegan Planet Mickey Z.
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Gabe Kirchheimer
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Mental
Illness: Psychiatry's
Phlogiston
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Thomas Szasz, M.D.
Psychiatric Drugging of Children for Behavioral Control
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Peter Breggin, M.D.
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_SOCIAL DISTORTION Mike Mflies Myths About Youth Truth About Domestic Violence Philip W. Cook Postcards From the Planet of the Freaks Lucy Gwin |
The Whole
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Toxic
TV Syndrome
Treatment or Pornography Prostitution
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Jail: Is
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This Really a Choice?
Preston Peet
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Wendy Mctiruy Wendy McElroy |
Two's Too Tough
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Tristan
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Taormino
How to Rid the World of Good Mi'^k Mamatas Why Women Need Freedom From Religion Annie |
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KNOW IS WRONG
Laurie Gaylor
163 167
_NOT ON TH E N IG HTLY N EWS Fission Stories: Nuclear Power's Secrets
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David Lochbaum
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New Revelations About Waco David Hardy The Bombing of PanAm Flight 103: Case Not Closed William Blum Leaders Against the Drug War Russ Kick "Call
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Off!":
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Votescam 2000 Untouchables Viva Kadaffi!
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Jonathan Vankin
the Twenty-first Century
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Dr. K.
Be the Chinese Century? Howard Bloom and Diane Scenes From a Secret War Peter Gorman Will
206 213
Jamanadas
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Starr Petryk-Bloom
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AND BEYOND
The Accidental Operative
A
Canticle for
Battle Boring
September
Osama
Bin
Camelia Fard and James Ridgeway Laden Alex Burns
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2001:
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Surprise
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_HIDDEN HISTORY The Ludlow Massacre Howard Zinn lack Niedenthai Mushroom Clouds in Paradise Some Lessons From the Underground History of American Education |
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Appendix A: More Secrets and Lies Russ Kick Appendix B: More Reading Russ Kick Appendix C: Publisher Information
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John Taylor Gatto
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Contributors Article Histories
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