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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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Uncle San anti the Arab Stmt­

The Citizen. the University a

The Bush Doctrine: The Wrong Roadmap

+Epilogue: We \ c'-d More Propaganda. 'Lets 49

Notes 15,0,

Index

About the Author

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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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181 Review: Lawrence Dawson's The Death of Reality r Hot%

Conspiracy of Fools is Imposing Unreality and

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         by Oar) Allen All A review

 

431 Jamestown: Mass Suicide, ,,I, Massacre

-141 Notes and Quotes: I'll: Oklahoma city                                                          31­451 Notes and Quotes, The Freemasons, I Lucifer, the \e\\

Order and Beyond                                                                                                    ;21 40 Civilization. History, and (l1 Decline of the an overview I,:\\

M, Samuel P. Huntington's, Cash of Section Seven: The American Presidency

4-) 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 ,

5. Notes and Quotes:  by Gregory Douglas                                                         421

Section Fight: the Media and Society

 

31 Why Dosen'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

5c) Mainstream Media: An Overview of Into

+++ 581 The American Caste System     40+++

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> Buzzsaw

455 57) Reviewed k-101114S - Secret Government and the death of

Kenn & Thomas and Jim Keith                                                                          40.

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Section Nine: The `tan Who Runs Happy Valley

59) The Man Who Runs Happy Valley 47 60) The Story behind the High School Shootings 48­61) An Alien Base beneath Beaver Stadium 49= 62) AIDS: Man-Made Virus Created in a Laboratory 5U= 63) Taxation or Slavery-?                                                                                                                                 51­

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

408

Something Other Than War

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

+++

"GNNas covered the ow on tenor like no one else." -The San Francisco++

A PLUME BOOK

Current Events

www penguin.com

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is characterized as near treasures, that ire a sedates g o Md dissent

w OW GOWAft Ue N++

T aft

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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

S

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 administrationiding 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

www..penguinputnam.com

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."'

Brill's Content

John Stauber (left) is founder and director of the Center for Media & Democracy. He and Sheldon Rampton write and edit the quarter­

 

Y) John Glenn Drive
Amherst, New York 142,28-2197

 

> INTO THE BUZZSAW

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`

--FROM GORE VIDAL's Foreword ,

"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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> I % alter Laqueur++

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