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Fahrenheit 451
Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who told him of a future where people could think. And Guy Montag knew what he had to do.... .
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Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays (Complete Works of George Orwell)
George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist From his earliest published article in 1928 to his untimely death in 1950, he produced an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected—and illuminated—the fraught times in which he lived and wrote. "As soon as he began to write something," comments George Packer in his foreword to this new two-volume collection, "it was as natural for Orwell to propose, generalize, qualify, argue, judge—in short, to think—as it was for Yeats to versify or Dickens to invent." Facing Unpleasant Facts charts Orwell's development as a master of the narrative-essay form and unites classics such as "Shooting an Elephant" with lesser-known journalism and passages from his wartime diary. Whether detailing the horrors of Orwell's boyhood in an English boarding school or bringing to life the sights, sounds, and smells of the Spanish Civil War, these narrative essays weave together the personal and the political in an unmistakable style that is at once plainspoken and brilliantly complex. .
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Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath
Few books have caused as big a stir as John Steinbecks The Grapes of Wrath, when it was published in April 1939. By May, it was the nations number one bestseller, but in Kern County, California-the Joads newfound home-the book was burned publicly and banned from library shelves. Obscene in the Extreme tells the remarkable story behind this fit of censorship. When W. B. Bill Camp, a giant cotton and potato grower, presided over its burning in downtown Bakersfield, he declared: We are angry, not because we were attacked but because we were attacked by a book obscene in the extreme sense of the word. But Gretchen Knief, the Kern County librarian, bravely fought back. If that book is banned today, what book will be banned tomorrow?Obscene in the Extreme serves as a window into an extraordinary time of upheaval in America-a time when, as Steinbeck put it, there seemed to be a revolution ...going on..
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The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet
Teeming with chatrooms, online discussion groups, and blogs, the Internet offers previously unimagined opportunities for personal expression and communication But there’s a dark side to the story. A trail of information fragments about us is forever preserved on the Internet, instantly available in a Google search. A permanent chronicle of our private lives—often of dubious reliability and sometimes totally false—will follow us wherever we go, accessible to friends, strangers, dates, employers, neighbors, relatives, and anyone else who cares to look. This engrossing book, brimming with amazing examples of gossip, slander, and rumor on the Internet, explores the profound implications of the online collision between free speech and privacy. Daniel Solove, an authority on information privacy law, offers a fascinating account of how the Internet is transforming gossip, the way we shame others, and our ability to protect our own reputations. Focusing on blogs, Internet communities, cybermobs, and other current trends, he shows that, ironically, the unconstrained flow of information on the Internet may impede opportunities for self-development and freedom. Long-standing notions of privacy need review, the author contends: unless we establish a balance between privacy and free speech, we may discover that the freedom of the Internet makes us less free. .
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Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies
This book begins where You Are Being Lied To left off. Once again, an amazing group of investigative journalists, researchers, insiders, dissidents, and academics peels back consensus reality and shows us what's really happening Hard, documented evidence on the most powerful institutions and controversial topics in the world. Among the revelations: Antidepressants trash your brain.
China has repeatedly threatened to nuke the US.
Young people are less violent now than they have been in over 30 years.
Mad Cow disease is killing people in America.
Many disabled people don't want to be "cured" and don't admire Christopher Reeve. Plus previously unpublished revelations about the International Monetary Fund, the Vatican Bank, the Olympic Games, Henry Lee Lucas, the drug war in South America, unpublicized accidents at nuclear power plants, and much more. Includes reproductions of rare documents and photos, including an unpublished eyewitness sketch of a mysterious third gunman at Columbine. Among the 50+ contributors: Naomi Klein Douglas Rushkoff Arianna Huffington Howard Zinn Paul Krassner Gary Webb Howard Bloom Noreena Hertz Alexander Cockburn Thomas Szasz William Blum James Ridgeway Kalle Lasn Wendy McElroy Marketing Plans:
Heavy promotion on Disinformation site (500,000+ unique visitors/month) and Disinformation email newsletter (50,000+ subscribers).
Disinformation TV series will air nationally on Sci-Fi Channel during 2002; contains profiles of several of the book's contributors.
Marketing campaign by Green Galactic publicity agency. Disinformation Books editor Russ Kick has previously written two popular alternative reference books: Outposts and Psychotropedia. The Disinformation Company operates the most popular counterculture and alternative news site on the Web, Disinformatio Also Available: You Are Being Lied To TP $19.95, 0-9664100-7-6 CUSA .
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Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and Washington Lobbyists for Foreign
Here are the facts: The United States has released 425 terrorists from Guantánamo, at least 50 of whom have returned to the battlefield to fight our troops. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton both say they're fiscally responsible. But each has called for $1 trillion in tax increases over the next ten years—and dressed them up as tax cuts! Mainstream Media has been given marching orders from the Society of Professional Journalists: never refer to "Islamic terrorists" or "Muslim terrorists." And they are obeying! Whenever our brave agents disrupt a terror plot, The media dismisses the culprits as a gang of idiots—lulling us into a false sense of security. If the liberals win the 2008 election, they will cripple talk radio—forcing stations to give equal time to left-wing programs, and insisting that liberals play a key role in station management. Up to a quarter of all state pension funds in the United States are invested in companies that are helping Iran, Syria, North Korea, or the Sudan—for a total of nearly $200 billion. The Do-Nothing Congress is still doing nothing—and the worst offenders are the presidential candidates Clinton, Obama, and McCain, who never show up for their day jobs as senators . . . except to pick up their $165,000 paycheck!
Is it any wonder that Americans feel fleeced at every turn? As more and more critical problems develop that need national attention, the White House and Congress appear to be AWOL. Who's calling the shots instead? Big business, big government, big labor, and big lobbyists. And their self-serving agendas are doing nothing to help the ever-increasing number of American people who are losing their homes, paying credit card interest rates higher than 25 percent, and finding their jobs increasingly outsourced to foreign countries. In this hard-hitting call to arms, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann reveal the hundreds of ways American tax-payers are routinely fleeced—by our own government; by foreign countries like Dubai that are gobbling up American interests and spending millions to influence government decisions and American public opinion; by Washington lobbying firms that are pushing the agendas of corrupt foreign dictators on Capitol Hill; and by hedge-fund billionaires collecting huge tax breaks courtesy of the IRS. With their characteristic blend of sharp analysis and insider insight, Morris and McGann call offenders of all kinds on the carpet—and offer practical agendas we all can follow to help turn the tide. .
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The Censored War: American Visual Experience During World War Two
This powerful book tells the story of how American public opinion about World War II was manipulated both by the wartime images that citizens were allowed to see in pictures, ads, and posters and by the images that were suppressed. His text is amplified by arresting visual essays that include many previously unpublished photographs from the army`s censored files..
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Abuse Your Illusions: The Disinformation Guide To Media Mirages And Establishment Lies
What do CNN, your history teacher, and the White House have in common? All of them have kept some important facts from you: • The US military faces a huge a 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 after 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 others blow away the smoke and smash the mirrors that keep us confused and misinformed.
You’ll learn the 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 CIA’s nuclear dreams, the malleable definition of “terrorism,” the forgotten personal lives of great scientists, the murky death of a leading microbiologist, and 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 he 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, treaty-busting bioweapons programs (the New York Times knows about this but refuses to report it) * Pulitzer-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 on Afghanistan * April Oliver lays out the facts behind 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 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 * Danish artist Jakob S. Boeskov crashes a Chinese arms bazaar with a rifle that doesn’t exist * Editor Russ Kick digs up neglected information regarding the September 11 attacks, including:
• Some of America’s highest officials have admitted that the attacks could’ve been prevented
• A Senator has said that at least one foreign country actively aided the 9/11 terrorists
• Even more hijackings were planned for that day
• A Taliban emissary warned the US and the UN about the attacks
• Four cameras filmed the plane hitting the Pentagon, but none of these videos has been released.
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