Books in Elden's Library Feb 2008 Index, Table of Content, Cover Notes
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>Our Media, Not Theirs
The Democratic Struggle
Against Corporate Media
Robert W. McChesney
and John Nichols
Open Media
Contents
The World We Share by Barbara Ehrenreich .................................................................... 9
In an Honest Debate by Ralph Nader 12 Renewing Tom Paine's Challenge by Noam Chomsky .. 1.5
Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 24
1 The Problem with U.S. Media ........................................................................................ 46
2 The Global Media and its Discontents........................................................................... 81
3 Building the U.S. Media Movement ............................................................................. 114
A Note on Sources............................................................................................................ 141
About the Authors ............................................................................................................. 142
"An astute analysis offering compassionate solutions... I loved the book. It speaks for me." -Patti Smith
"McChesney and Nichols provide much evidence that we may bi 'the early stages of a serious social movement,' for which demratization of the media will be a central focus of discussion, activism, and reconstruction. They make a powerful case in sup port of these priorities, and suggest paths that can be followed lay these foundations for recovering rights, and carrying forward the endless struggle for freedom and justice." -Noam Chomsky, from the foreword
"McChesney and Nichols both critically assess our current media system and, even better, help us to imagine something different mapping the transition from a period of individual frustration v corporate media toward one of collective action for their reform -Janine Jackson, Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting
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>INFORMATION WAR
AMERICAN PROPAGANDA, FREE SPEECH
AND OPINION CONTROL SINCE 9/11
NANCY SNOW
FOREWORD BY GREG PALAST
An Open Media Book
SEVEN STORIES PRESS / NEW YORK
.Foreword by Greg Palast 9 Truth and Consequences 12
Bermuda Mind Triangle: Propaganda, Terrorism, and Media 21
"Media Collusion and the Rise of the Fourth Reich" 36 In the Beginning, There Was George 50
When Harry Met George: An Assessment of the Information War Then and Now 58
Why I Write vs. Why We Fight 67
Opinion Control on the Next War: Freedom to Fear, Freedom from Thinking 73
Sister Soldya: Charlotte Beers and the Mother of All Marketing Campaigns 84
The Last Three Feet 99
The Myth of the Lone Dissenter 109
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The Citizen. the University a
The Bush Doctrine: The Wrong Roadmap
+Epilogue: We \ c'-d More Propaganda. 'Lets 49
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Index
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"Professor Snow is our Toto...like Dorothy's little dog in The Wizard of Oz, she goes behind the curtain to expose the awful little man projecting that big fake image on the giant screen. Snow rips back the curtain on the
agencies, programs, and methods of our nation's official propagandists, both the ones you've heard of, like the USIA, and the ones you haven't, like 'Office of Strategic Influence.' If the name of that little pustule on our government's organizational chart doesn't give you the willies, Snow's portrait of it and the former propaganda czar, Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy Charlotte Beers, certainly will. Ms. Beers, whom George W. Bush put in charge of convincing the world's religion-and resentment-stuffed billions NOT TO KILL US, came to her post fresh from running ad campaigns for Uncle Ben's Rice. Lord help us.
"It's just such combinations of pin-headed arrogance and boobery which characterizes the Bush Administration's intellectual weaponry for the War on Terror. That's what Snow tells us in horrifying detail; and as a
_former apparatchik in America's ministry of propaganda, the USIA, she can speak from her experience in the Ally of the clown."
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-GREG PALAST, from the foreword ISBN 1-58322-557-9
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> The New Media Monopoly
H. Bagdikian Beacon Press, Boston
CONTENTS
Foreword ix
Preface to the First Edition xv
CHAPTER ONE: Common Media for an Uncommon Nation I CHAPTER TWO: The Big Five ' 27
CHAPTER THREE: The Internet 55
CHAPTER FOUR: (Not) All the News That's Fit to Print . 74 CHAPTER FIVE: All the News That Fits? ' 91 CHAPTER SIX: Paper in the Digital Age 114 CHAPTER SEVEN: Rebellion and Remedies 131 CHAPTER EIGHT: "Won't They Ever Learn?" 153 CHAPTER NINE: From Mythology to Theology ' 177 CHAPTER TEN: "Dear Mr. President.. ." . 204 CHAPTER ELEVEN: Only the Affluent Need Apply 218 CHAPTER TWELVE: Dr. Brandreth Has Gone to Harvard 233 Afterword: Paradise Lost or Paradise Regained?
Social Justice in Democracy . 257 Notes 266
Acknowledgments . 283
Index- 285
"When Ben Bagdikian's classic investigation of concentrated power in the media first appeared two decades ago, the professional happy-talkers and smiley-faces denounced him. Since then, however, his early warnings have proved more prescient than even he could have imagined. In the era of new media and emerging technologies, his critical message is even more urgent. Bagdilkan provides an indispensable guide to the unaccountable political and cultural power of monopolized media-possibly the most serious affliction of democracy in our time."
-J 0 E CONASON, author of BigLies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth
The most respected critique of modern mass media ever issued is now published in a completely updated and revised twentieth-anniversary edition.
When the first edition of TheMedia Monopoly was published in 1983, critics called Ben Bagdikian's warnings about the chilling effects of corporate ownership and mass advertising on the nation's news alarmist. Since then, the number of corporations controlling most of America's daily newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, book publishers, and movie companies has dwindled from fifty to ten to five.
"Ben Bagdikian has written the first great media book of the twenty-first century. The New Media Monopoly will provide a roadmap to understanding how we got here and where we need to go to make matters better."
-ROBERT MCCHESNEY, author of Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ben H. Bagdikian is. de emeritus of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. His other books include Double Vision: Reflections on My Heritage, Life, and Profession.
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> The New World Order Exposed
Victor Thorn
Introduction
Section One: 9-11
1) Forty Reasons that Suggest the Controllers Knew About the 911 Terrorist Attacks but did nothing to stop them
2) 25 more Reasons that Suggest the Controllers Not Only Knew About the 9-1 1 "Terrorist Attacks, but also allowed them to happen (while failing to disclose the lull story to us)
3) Military Smokescreen: Who Commanded the Air Force to 'stand down"?
4) Notes and Quotes: The War on Terrorism - Money, Fear and Rights
5) 9-11 Smokescreen
6) Fear, Psychic Driving, and Pavlov's Dogs
Section Two: Banks, Oil, Drugs & War
7) Drug Trafficking: A Brief H Historical Overview 8) The War in Afghanistan: Opium and Oil
9) War-Mongers, Death-Mercluunts
Killers:America's
Machine
10) H IC Cargyle Group
11) The Bush-Bin Laden Family Connection
12) Ranks, Oil, and Drug Trafficking: An Overview of Mike
Ruppert's 11w 11'71111 and Lies n/ 9-11
Section Three: Control Systems
13 The Psychology of Control Systems
14) Yes. Virginia, There is a New World Order
15) The Controllers and their Evil Goals
16) Compartmentalization and the Need to Know
17) Notes & Quotes: We Don't Need Your Education
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18) Review: Lawrence Dawson's The Death of Reality How a Conspiracy of Fools is Imposing Unreality and Claim to the Destiny of a Nation 113
19) Review: Hugh Fox’s The Invisibles: A Dialectic 119
Section Four: The Federal Reserve System
20) Notes and Quote: T.`:'- ho',; our Fine Country \%a in 1913
21) Who Controls the Federal Reserve System?
The Federal Reserve System Must be destroyed
23) Do We Want To Save America' Then Demand that We D-,,--,
the Federal Reserve and Default on our National..: De:`: 24) Financial Enslavement and the Federal Reserve: n
of Peter Kershaws Economic Solaria%:
Section Five: Technology- & Intelligence
25) America's Deliberate Demise and China's Role a_ \e.• the Hill
26) China. the Mossad. and Artificial Intelligence 27) Artificial Intelligence - The Final Conspiracy 28) The Controllers Ultimate Motives
29) Big Brother Technology- - A Boot Stomping on a Human Face.. 30) The Terminator Gene: Who Controls the World's Food Supply
An Overview of Texe Marrs' Days of Hunger. Days of C •tidy 31) Chemtrails over Happy Valley
32) Notes and Quotes: Mind Control
Section Six: History,
33) Don't Trust History
34) Why Did Americans Finance the Bolshevik Revolution='= 35) Reviewed: Antony L. Sutton's Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler 36) FDR and the Controllers: War-Time Traitors - Pearl Harbor 37) FDR and the Controllers: War-Time Traitors - The Atomic
Bomb
38) FDR and the Controllers: War-Time Traitors - Russia and the Atomic Bomb
" Adolf' Hitler and Black Magic: The Real Reason behind the
the Party's Rise to Power
40) The lush Family Money
41) Notes and Quotes; The Rockefeller Fil by Gary Allen 293
42) A review of the Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace 299
43) Jamestown: Mass Suicide, ,,I, Massacre
44) Notes and Quotes: I'll: Oklahoma City Bombing 317
45) Notes and Quotes, The Freemasons, I Lucifer, the New World Order & Beyond 321
46) Civilization. History, and the Decline of the an overview of Samuel P. Huntington's, The Clash of Civilivations and the Remaking of the World Order 333
Section Seven: American Presidency All
4$) Nixon. f'al'ter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush, All Bought.
and Controlled 01
4k3) An 0verview of' Gerald Carl-Al's 375
41 An Overview of Michael Collins Piper's Final Judgement: The.
t1 N* I in! to., the ;"- . 38
51) The Rothschild-CPR Connection 41 ,
52) Notes and Quotes: by Gregory Douglas 421
Section Eight: the Media and Society
53) Why Doesn’t the Media Tell Us About the Bilderbergs 427
54) The American Media Should lie Ashamed tai Itself 431
Fake Rack Your Stolen me: Votescam Revisited 437
56) Mainstream Media: An Overview of Into the Buzzsaw 455
57) Reviewed The Octopus - Secret Government and the death of Danny Casolaro by Kenn & Thomas and Jim Keith 463
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58) The American Caste System 467
Section Nine: The Man Who Runs Happy Valley
59) The Man Who Runs Happy Valley 47
60) The Story behind the High School Shootings 487
61) An Alien Base beneath Beaver Stadium 493
62) AIDS: Man-Made Virus Created in a Laboratory 503
63) Taxation or Slavery-? 517
Section Ten: Finale
64) Frogs Being Boiled to Death in a Pot
65) David Rockefeller Speaks
66) Do We Care Enough To Save America' 67) The Outlaw Class
68) An Interview- with Victor Thorn
69) Afterword: He Who Would Face the Winds by Lisa Guliani
New World Order Exposed
How a Cabal of
"In the world we live in, Victor Thorn's writing is a beacon, A bright search) lit on what people, want to hide - the truth. I unreservedly commend this book to a' $l those who care with a passion about our future. Beg, borrow or best of all, buy it as one for your shelves."
Author of rig: of fire, Gideon's and s
"Consider Victor Thorn's The New World Order Exposed your final wake-up call. It's all here; the names, the dates and the places. There's also the methods being used by a small clique of men and women to subjugate and manipulate the masses ... that's you and I., Learn, about the New World Order now while America still pays lip service to the Constitution. _Tomorrow may be too late."
Anchor Rule by Secrecy
"There's nothing 'new' about the New World Order. It is a conspiracy - not a conspiracy theory - and its very roots can be found in the Garden of Eden. Today those. who are tilling this soil for their own insidious ends are in positions of power in government, the media, and in academia. In order to understand the nature of this monster - this enemy of liberty - you need to read and understand Victor Thorn's The New World Order Exposed. Thorn is a shining star in the freedom movement, and his efforts are inestimable."
Author of: Final Judgement in the JFK Assassination Conspiracy
"With the intensity of a jack-hammer, Victor Thorn rips the lid off the New World Order as never before in the most disturbing political and historical expose ever written about America's ultimate betrayal and the war against humanity. Meet the Controllers. They're not who you
might think they are."
"Victor Thorn has the unheard of investigative ability to follow the facts wherever the% lead, independent of the Left/Right Paradigm. Not afraid to plunge headfirst into the dark depths of the New World Order Matrix Control (:rid, lie bravely wrestles this all-consuming Octopus,
its multitude of slimy tentacles slithering into every aspect -
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The Problem of the Media U.S Communication politics in the
21st century
Robert W. McChesney MEDIA STUDIES
CONTENTS
PREFACE 7
1. POLITICAL PROBLEM, POLITICAL SOLUTIONS 16
Media, Markets, and Policies 18
U.S. Media System Not "Naturally" Profit Driven 25
Subsidizing the Press 33
The Rise of Broadcasting 38
The Neoliberal Period 48
2. UNDERSTANDING U.S. JOURNALISM CORPORATE CONTROL AND PROFESSIONALISM 57
Journalism's Great Crisis 58
Rise of Professional journalism 64
limitations of Professional journalism 67
The Commercialization of Journalism 77
Covering the Corporate Scandal 89
3. UNDERSTANDING U.S. JOURNALISM II:
RIGHT-WING CRITICISM AND POLITICAL COVERAGE 98
Conservative Critique of the "Liberal Media" 99
Right-Wing Political Campaign against the Media 111
Partisan Coverage in Peace and War 118
Journalism's Litmus Test: Election Coverage 123
Missing the Story-Front DC to Florida 132
4. THE AGE OF HYPER-COMMERCIALISM 138
Rise of Advertising 139
Hyper-Commercialism and Media 145
The Crumbling Wall 153
Hyper-Commercialism's New Frontiers 158
Advertising and Policy 168
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5. THE MARKET UBER ALLES 175
Is the Media System a Competitive Market? 176
Conglomeration and Synergy 183
Is the Market Appropriate to
Regulate Media? 189
Creativity versus Commerce in the
Conglomerate Era 192
So Do Commercial Media Give People
What They Want? 198
The Case for the Status Quo 205
6. MEDIA POLICIES AND MEDIA REFORM 210
Technology and the Internet 211
Policy Making in the Internet Era
217
Media Ownership Policies 224
Media and Antitrust Law 235
Public Broadcasting, Yesterday and
Today 240
Invigorating Public Media 248
7. THE UPRISING OF 2003 252
Media Reform Movement Comes to Life 255
Powell and Copps Take the Stage 259
Beltway Opposition Stiffens 264
Powell's Three Arguments 268
Opposition Grows Beyond the Beltway 273
Left and Right Unite 279
From FCC to Congress 283
Trench Warfare 288
Epilogue: The Hardest Battle Has Been Won 295
A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the current battle for control of the media.
-REP. JOHN CONYERS, JR. OD-W)
An inspirational and enlightening manifesto for the growing media reform movement
-KATRINA Vander HEUVEL. Editor. De Nation
This masterful study is not only highly enlightening but a real stimulus to constructive action as well.
-NOAM CHOMSKY
Beautifully written and meticulously researched.
-LAWRENCE LESSIG. Stanford Law School, author of The Future of Ideas
Robert McChesney is the conscience of the media in America. This book is just the latest evidence of his profound importance to this nation.
-CHARLES LEWIS. Center for Public Integrity
As Chomsky is to linguistics, Ben & Jerry's to ice cream, and Elvis
to shaking one's hips, McChesney is to media analysis. He is the King: there is no one more definitive.
-DANNY SCHECHTER. Editor. Medialchannel.org
The Problem of the Media is an exceptional blend of history, economics, policy and politics.
-MICHAEL 1. DELL] CARPINI. Dean. Annenberg School
for Communication. University of Pennsylvania
No scholar has done more to advance our understanding of the importance of media for democracy than Robert W. McChesney.
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> CyberShock
Surviving Hackers, Phreakers, Identity Thieves, Internet Terrorists and Weapons of Mass Disruption
by Winn Schwartau
Thunder's Mouth Press New York
Contents
Acknowledgments x Foreword by ,John "Cap'n Crunch" Draper xiii Introduction xxi
Part I: The Hackers 1 The Great New Global Society 3 Whole Lotta Hacking Goin' On 19 CyberGraffiti 25 Who Are the Hackers? 33 CyberChrist at the Hacker Con: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA 53 Hactivism: Political Hacking 69 An American Alien Hacks Through Customs 79
Part II: Protecting Kids, Family, and Your Privacy 83 Iii Cyberspace You're Guilty Until Proven Innocent 85 Protecting Your Kids and Family from Hackers 111 Spam 130 Scam Spam: Fraud 141
Part Ill: How They Hack 153 Getting Anonymous 155 Password Hacking 165
Hack and Sniff
Scanning, Breaking, and Entering: Anatomy
of a Friendly Hack
War Dialing: Hacking the Phones Trojan Hacking
Hacking for $
Viruses, Hoaxes, and Other Animals Crypto Hacking
Steganography: Hiding in Plain Site (Sight?) Hacking for Evidence
Part IV: "We're Sorry, but the Computers Are Down" Denial of Service: Taking Down the Net Schwartau to Congress: HERF This Weapons of Mass Disruption
Part V: Anti-Hacking Tips and Tricks 313 Hiring Hackers 315 Catching Hackers 325 Defensive Hacking: Firewalls 336 Corporate Anti-Hacking: It Ain't the Technology 346 Lying to Hackers Is OK by Me 357
Part VI: Law Enforcement,Vigilantism, and National Security 365 Hacking and Law Enforcement 367 Corporate Vigilantism: Strike Back or Lay Back? 374 Infrastructure Is Us: The National Response to Hacking 390
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Contents i x
iAppendix 450
Top Hacker Sites 450
3 Top 50 Security Sires 451
Other Works by Wine Schwartau 453
Index 455
"Cybershock takes the reader well beyond mere hackers ... and offers an understanding of the real threat to cyber security and how to act defensively."
-MICHAEL ZUCKERMAN, t NIA Today'
"[Cybershock] presents sonic tough questions and answers to problems that few people even considered as few as five years ago. This hook is a must read for educators and government officials alike."
-CONGRESSMAN TOM TANCREDO (CO-R) "Clear, entertaining and scary." -Atlanta Contstitution
"This is the one hook that everyone from systems administrators to casual net surfers should read. Highly recommended..." -Library Journal
Cybershock, by Winn Schwartau, author of the classic Irtformation Warfarce, is the first book to guide the average Internet user through the perils of hackers, phreakers, identity thieves and Internet terrorists, offering answers and solutions in common-sense language to make our online lives safer and more secure. Cybershock will show you just how bad a neighborhood the Internet can be, and what you can do to protect your family and business from fraud, identity-theft, online predators and spies, pornography, and much more.
WINN SCHWARTAU, one of the country's leading experts on information security, infrastructure protection and electronic piracy, is the author of several books including Time Based Security (Interpact Press, 1999), Information Warfare (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1998), and Complete Internet Business Toolkit (Wiley & Sons, 1996). His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Information Week, PC Week, Internet World, and mane other periodicals.
ISBN 1-56025-307-X
Thunder Mouth' PRESS
Distributed Publishers Group WEST
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> TRUE LIES
Anthony Lappe
And Stephen Marshall
with additional reporting by Ian Inaba
Guerrilla News Network
A PLUME BOOK
Contents
Foreword by Greg Palast xi
Introduction: Paradigm Drift xv
1. Meet the Press 1
2. The Road to Shanksville 19
3. Selling September 11 43
4. Cynthia's War 79
5. The Anti-Imperial Imperialists 111
6. Silver Bullet or Dirty Bomb? 143
7. Deadly Jabs and Nightmare Pills 173 8. Black Box Democracy
9. Welcome to the ++®evolution 241 True Lies Netpendix
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"GNNas covered the ow on tenor like no one else." -The San Francisco++
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As mainstream news sources increasingly turn to
the
lowest common denominator of flag-waving shock jocks,
millions of Americans are getting their ; information about
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important global issues from alternative, nontraditional sources. GNN is one of the best.
In True lies, the writers at GNN go beneath the surface of the mainstream news to find the answers to some of today's most pressing questions: Is America using its own weapons of mass destruction to create a radioactive battlefield in the Middle East? Will new voting technology made by Republican-connected companies lead to another Florida-style election fiasco? Is the Bush administration hiding the biggest secrets of 9/11? What is the truth behind the biggest conspiracies of the day?
'A Salon with balls.' –Vicegazine++
"GNNs an w g the best" icy++
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How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future
Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber
Contents
Prometheus Books
ly PR Ward?: Public Interest Reporting on the PR/Public Affairs Industry. The authors of Toxic: Sludge Is Good for You and Mad (our U.SA., they live in Madison, Wisconsin.
Preface: The Smell Test I
PART I: THE AGE OF ILLUSION
1 The Third Man 7
2 The Birth of Spin 31
3 Deciding What You'll Swallow 53
PART II: RISKY BUSINESS
4 Dying for a Living 75
5 Packaging the Beast 91)
6 Preventing Precaution 120
7 Attack of the Killer Potatoes 152
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PART III: THE EXPERTISE INDUSTRY
8 The Best Science Money Can Buy 195
9 The Junkyard Dogs 222
10 Global Warming Is Good For You 267 11 Questioning Authority 2H9
Appendix: Recommended Resources 317
Notes 321
Index 355
Cover illustration by Dan Perkins Cover design by David Walker
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam ISBN 1-58542-139-1
a member of Penguin Putnam Inc. 90000
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U.S. $14.95
CAN $21.99
The book that unmasks the sneaky and widespread methods industry uses to influence opinion through bogus experts, doctored data, and manufactured facts
"Finally a long-overdue expose of the shenanigans and subterfuge that lie behind the making of experts in America." -Jeremy Rifkin
"A brilliant piece of investigative journalism and a powerful vaccine against the stupefying effects of the corporate PR machine-spread it around!" -Barbara Ehrenreich
"Media critics John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton would like American consumers to become better spin detectors. Behind much of what we read in newspapers or hear on TV, they say, are not cold, hard facts, but public relations specialists, who are masters at `spin control,' directing what information is presented, by whom and in what context."
-Anita Manning, USA Today
"Meticulously researched ... Rampton and Stauber's documentation of PR campaigns proves that they are the real `experts."'
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Leading Journalists Expose' the' Myth of a Free Press edited by
KRISTIN 13O R J I- SSON++
Foreward by Gore Vidal
CONTENTS
Foreword
Gore Vidal 5
Acknowledgments 9
Editor's Introduction 11
Chapter 1: The Price of Liberty
Gerard Colby 15
Chapter 2: The Fox, the Hounds, and the Sacred Cows
Jane Akre 37
Chapter 3: The Silence of the Lambs:
An American in Journalistic Exile
Greg Palast 65
Chapter 4: Shouting at the Crocodile
Maurice Murad 77
Chapter 5: Into the Buzzsaw
Kristina Borjesson 103
Chapter 6: Coal Mine Canaries
David E. Hendrix 151
Chapter 7: When Black Becomes White
Philip Weiss 175
Chapter 8: Stories We Love, Stories We Hate
Helen Malmgren
Chapter 9: The Story No One Wanted to Hear
J. Robert Port
Chapter 10: A Dream Job
April Oliver 215
Chapter 11: Verdict First, Evidence Later:
The Case for Bobby Garwood
Monika Jensen-Stevenson 223
Chapter 12: Let's Blow Up Our Brand:
The Dangerous Course of Today's Broadcast Newsrooms
Karl Idsvoog 247
Chapter 13: Mainstream Media: The Drug War's Shills
Michael Levine 257
Chapter 14: The Mighty Wurlitzer Plays On
Gary Webb 295
Chapter 15: Crimes and Silence:
The CIA's Criminal Acts and the Media's Silence
John Kelly 311
Chapter 16: What Happened to Good
Old-Fashioned Muckraking?
Carl Jensen 333
Chapter 17: The Light That Won't Go Out
Brant Houston 351
Chapter 18: The Rise and Fall of Professional Journalism
Robert McChesney 363
"Into the Buzzsaw is a splendid--and`
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"if members of the general public read Am look, or even
will be appalled. To the uninitiated.reader, the accounts o behind the scenes at major news organizations are shocking ., .
-Publisher's weekly
From the editor's introduction
"Most journalists work behind the scenes and want to keep it that way. They don't ever want to be the story; they only want to tell it. More important, there are plenty of big and little dirty secrets journalism's 'powers-that-be' don't want publicized, particularly by those who work for them and know those secrets. Reporters who tattle risk losing their jobs and being blacklisted in the business. ... That should tell you something about the news you're getting. It's been written countless times that the press is our nation's last line of defense for keeping our leaders honest and our government democratic. if you believe this to he true and are concerned. you should read this book very. very carefully.-
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Contents
Acknowledgments, vii Introduction, 3
Terrorism and History, 8
Weapons of Mass Destruction, 49 Terrorist Motives: Marx, Muhammad, and Armageddon, 79
Terror and the Far Right, 105 Religion and Terrorism, 127 State Terrorism, 156 Exotic Terrorism, 184
Terrorism and Organized Crime, 210 Terrorism Today and Tomorrow, 226 Terrorism of the Future, 254
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Advance praise for The New Terrorism
"I found Walter Laqueur's The New Terrorism to be an authoritative and comprehensive review of international and domestic terrorism. It is also a discomfiting augury for the future. Laqueur's excellent work is probably the best single volume I've seen on the phenomenon of terrorism and political violence."
-Vincent Cannistraro, former Chief of CIA Counterterrorism Operations
"Walter Laqueur's excellent book gives us a badly needed historical and cultural context for terrorism. This book gives readers a better analytic basis for judging terrorist behavior and proposed government responses."
-John Deutch, Institute Professor at MIT, former Director of Central Intelligence and Deputy Secretary of Defense
"No one else has so thoroughly, succinctly, and dispassionately chronicled the wave of fanaticism around the world, its sources, and the terrorist danger it represents now-and all the more so in the future as terrorist groups gain access to weapons of mass destruction. Laqueur's account of the magnitude of the threat-group by group, country by country-makes all the more apparent how ill-prepared governments are to deal with this menace to international order at a strategic level."
-Robert M. Gates, former Director of Central Intelligence
"A riveting story of terrorism's colorful past and multi-faceted nature. At today's juncture in history, as weapons of mass destruction begin to escape their Cold War confinement, Walter Laqueur's profound understanding of the politics and psychology of terrorism superbly illuminates a fearsome aspect of our future."
-Fred C. Ikle, former Undersecretary of Defense
"Walter Laqueur has written a panoramic study of terrorism, tracing this enduring phenomenon from its earliest roots to the present. His perspectives on the future course of terrorism, both in cyberspace and in the realm of agents of mass destruction challenge policy makers, law enforcement officials, and the public to a new awareness of the dangers that lie ahead. His work is provocative and thought provoking for layman and specialist alike."
-Anthony C.E. Quainton, former Director of the Office for Combatting Terrorism. U.S. Department of State
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Educating for the 'New World Order'
B. K. EAKMAN
Contents
Preface: .............. ix List of
Allegations: xi
Introduction: "Grievance Procedure" and the Rights of a Citizen ......... 1
PART I: THE FEMININE MISTAKE
Chapter 1: West Alexander, Pennsylvania, 1985 10
Chapter 2: The Test That Wasn't There 14
Chapter 3: Paper Chases: Part One 19
PART II: A TALE OF TWO PRINTOUTS
Chapter 4: Fuel For the Fire 26
Chapter 5: Looking for Clues in All the Wrong Places 32
Chapter 6: Getting Inside the EQA 40
Chapter 7: How Attitudes Are Made "Appropriate" 47
Chapter 8: Performing Parent-Bypass Surgery 56
Chapter 9: "Cognitive" Versus "Academic": A Critical Distinction . . . 62
Chapter 10: How to Create a Psychological Conflict 67
Chapter 11: Experts and the Dissenters Among Them 71
Chapter 12: What Constitutes a "Captive Audience"? 93
Chapter 13: The Slippery Slope 96
PART III: SENATOR ZORINSKY AND THE ILL-FATED
LITERACY CAMPAIGN
Chapter 14: Taking on the Education Subcommittees 101
Chapter 15: Education Issues: No Trespassing! 113
PART IV: THE SCIENCE OF "PLANNED CHANGE" Chapter 16: Uncovering the How-To Manual of Behavioral Programming . 118 Chapter 17: CFAT and the "Education Reform" Gambit 124
Chapter 18: How To "Impact" a School District 130
Chapter 19: Running With the Ball 138
viii EDUCATING FOR THE "NEW WORLD ORDER"
PART V: BACK TO THE FUTURE
Chapter 20: A Hard Day's Night in Nebraska 142
Chapter 21: Paper Chases: Part Two 151
Chapter 22: Resurrecting the Educational Blueprint 170
Chapter 23: The Carrot and the Stick 175
PART VI: INTO COMPUTERIZED SLAVERY?
Chapter 24: Evolution of Data-Trafficking and the New Supercomputer 180
Chapter 25: Of Men and Microchips 190
Chapter 26: Target Practice 200
PART VII: HOW TEACHER EDUCATION WAS REVAMPED Chapter 27: Where the Bucks Are: The Big Push in
Behavioral Science 208
Chapter 28: People-Shaping Through Behavioral Programming ......... 218
Chapter 29: The Politics o f Popular Consent 228
Chapter 30: CFAT Does the Bureaucratic Shuffle 231
Chapter 31: Some Observations on the Almost Perfect Crime ............. 236
Epilogue 245