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Abuse Your Illusions: The Disinformation Guide To Media Mirages And Establishment Lies »

Authors: Russ Kick (Editor), Richard Metzger
ISBN-13: 9780971394247, ISBN-10: 0971394245
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Disinformation Company, The
Date Published: May 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Russ Kick

Russ Kick is the all-star editor of five previous Disinformation Guides and three Disinformation books. He has been labeled as an "information archaeologist" by the New York Times in a major profile. He runs the popular blog TheMemoryHole.org and is well known for his intelligent and successful FOIA requests and unveilings.

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The third of Russ Kick's bestselling Disinformation Guides gathers another all-star line-up of exposés.

	Acknowledgments	3
	Preface	6
	Introduction	9
	Media Mirages
	Exile on Mainstream: Why an American Reporter Had to Leave the Country to Report the News	10
	Watergate Redux: The Washington Post and the Party Line	17
	Mainstream Media: The Drug War's Shills	24
	Unanswered Letters: Setting the Record Straight Regarding Tailwind	39
	Why UN Inspectors Left Iraq in 1998	54
	Not on the Nightly News
	The Pentagon's New Biochemical Warriors	56
	Cuban Political Prisoners ... in the United States	67
	How I Crashed a Chinese Arms Bazaar With A Rifle that Doesn't Exist	71
	The Mysterious Decline of Men on Campus	77
	The Kwangju Uprising and the US	82
	Mystery in Memphis: The Troubling Death of Microbiologist Don Wiley	87
	The Warren Report: Believe It or Not	98
	Food-Drop Fiasco	102
	Belgium: The Pedophilia Files	104
	Suitable for Framing: Wayne Williams and the Atlanta Child Murders	108
	Behind the Masks of Power
	Speer: What Albert Speer Can Teach Government Officials About Accepting Responsibility	114
	The Underside of De Beers Diamonds	120
	Corporations Claim the "Right to Lie"	127
	Dirty Players of World Finance	130
	The Enemy Within: Rape and Sexual Harassment in the US Military	141
	Operation Pipeline: Pulling Over Minority Motorists as an Excuse to Search Their Cars	146
	Invasion of the Child-Snatchers	161
	The Agency and the Atom: The CIA's Radiation Weapons Programs and Experiments on Humans	170
	The White House Campaign Against Drug Reform Initiatives	178
	The Man Who Invented Normal	187
	Are Secrecy Oaths a License to Lie?	194
	Terrorism and Tyranny
	What is a Terrorist?	197
	Pieces of the 9/11 Puzzle	198
	War Against Terrorism or Expansion of the American Empire?	228
	The Others: Mourning the Dead, Wherever They May Be	235
	US Homeland Security: A Bridge from Democracy to Dictatorship	241
	Bill of Rights, R.I.P.	245
	Hidden History
	Creating Panama for Funds and Profit	250
	"A Truth So Terrible": Atrocities Against German POWs and Civilians During and After WWII	261
	Inside Science's Closet	268
	Our Back Pages: The Nostalgia Industry and "Good Old Days" Mythology	272
	The Secret Behind the Creation of the United Nations	278
	One Giant Leap - Backward: America's Forgotten Female Astronauts	284
	Body and Mind
	The Lilly Suicides	289
	The Fluoridation Fraud	302
	Straight Talk About Suicide	309
	Beliefs
	Did Jesus Really Rise From the Dead?	311
	Islamic Censorship: How Allah Has Nipped Your Right to Know	321
	The Virgin of Medjugorje: A Shrine for the Twenty-first Century	327
	L. Ron, Sirhan, Manson, and Me	332
	Mormon Racism: Black is Not Beautiful	339
	More Info
	Contributors	344
	Article Histories	350

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