What do CNN, your history teacher, and the White House have in common?

All of them have kept shockingly important facts from you:

• The US Military faces a huge rape crisis.

• The most popular kind of antidepressants can cause suicide.

• The nation of Panama was created as a get-rich scheme by Wall Street.

• The Atlanta child-killer was convicted of only two murders - of adults.

• Islamic groups are censoring critical material in America.

• Corporations have claimed the "right" to lie.

• The US and other Allies massacred German POWs and civilians during and WWII.

• The food drops in Afghanistan were a complete fiasco.

In these pages, a stunning line-up of investigative reporters, media critics, independent researchers, academics, ex-government agents, and other experts blow away the smoke and smashes the mirrors that keep us confused and misinformed.

You'll learn disturbing, hidden facts about the diamond trade, child protective services, government-sponsored anti-drug ads, the Orwellian PATRIOT Act, fluoridation, the Resurrection story, Mormon racism, the SIA's nuclear dreams, the malleable definition of "terrorism," the forgotten personal lives of great scientists, the murky death of a leading microbiologist, and much more.

After reading these articles, you'll be ready to
ABUSE YOUR ILLUSIONS

Daniel Ellsberg talks about turning himself in for leaking the Pentagon Papers, and reveals what rehabilitated Nazi Albert Speer can teach government officials about accepting responsibility

Investigative reporter Greg Palast catches the news media telling blatant lies

The Sunshine Project exposes the United States' illegal bioweapons program (the New York Times knows about it but refuses to report it)

Pulitzer Prize-winner Gary Webb details the racial profiling of Operation Pipeline, a program that pulls over minorities on the pretext of minor traffic violations

Howard Zinn unearths the stories of civilians killed during the attacks of Afghanistan

April Oliver lays out the hard facts supporting her hugely controversial CNN report on Operation Tailwind

Jim Hougan looks at the surprising recent trials concerning Watergate (it might have been about a Democratic call-girl ring after all)

Stephen Schlesinger, Director of the World Policy Institute, breaks the real story about the founding of the United Nations - the US spied on its allies, using this knowledge to shape the UN to its liking

Former federal agent Michael Levine describes first-hand how the Drug War is designed to fail

Stephanie Nolen tells the story of America's forgotten female astronauts

Editor Russ Kick digs up neglected information regarding the September 11 attacks, including:

• Some of America's highest officials have admitted the attacks could have been prevented

• A Senator has said that at least one foreign country actively aided the 9/11 terrorists

• A Taliban emissary warned the US and the UN about the attacks

• Even more hijackings were planned for that day

Russ Kick is the editor of Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies; You Are Being Lied To: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths; and Hot Off the Net: Erotica and Other Sex Writings From the Internet. He is also the author of Outposts and Psychototropedia, editor-in-chief of the Disinformation Website, and publisher-editor of The Memory Hole.

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I do get a little fed up with all the conspiracy theories surrounding the Big Brother culture of the US (and the UK, to a lesser extent). However, when journalists, and the media at large, begin to believe without question what politicians and world leaders tell us those in charge begin to think they can get away with anything. I'll read this with as much cynicism as I'd read a Michael Moore book, or a Bush manifesto, remembering that this is propaganda, just the opposite side of the coin. The book does look interesting, with a wide range of articles on numerous subjects. I'm bound to find something to rant about in there.