True Lies
Anthony Lappé and Steven Marshall with Ian Inaba
Reviews
“Making an extensive contribution to ongoing critiques of the media, Web-based Guerrilla News Network reporters Lappé and Marshall charge that the public is served by members of ‘a lazy and compliant news media’ who often act as mere ‘glorified stenographers’ to the government and corporate sources they rely on for information and answers. To back up their claims, the authors collect un- and under-reported news stories from the past few years, giving careful scrutiny to alternative versions of election fraud, conspiracy theories surrounding 9/11, the notion of American empire, Gulf War illness and military vaccinations, ‘crossover’ voting (voting in two primary elections) and electronic voting machines. Perhaps the most compelling chapter deals with the U.S. military use of depleted uranium in armor-tipped weapons. Introduced in the first Gulf War and used again in the Balkans, the recent invasion of Iraq saw a renewed proliferation of these ‘radioactive kinetic penetrators.’ This time they were used in heavily populated areas now occupied by American forces as well as Iraqi civilians. Why, the authors ask, ‘has the mainstream American media paid so little attention to this literally radioactive issue?’ Lappé and Marshall also critique the left-leaning organizations and activists for distortions in their dispatches. Their own presentation, which allows most of the stories to speak for themselves without heightened language, does manage to lead by example.”—Publishers Weekly
“Like any outlaw journalists, Lappé and Marshall ask questions people don’t want to answer.”—Metroactive.com
“When questioning government policies is characterized as near treasonous one appreciates the skillful dissent displayed by the Guerilla News Network.” -- USA Today
“GNN is among the best.”—Noam Chomsky
“Despite its hip veneer, GNN is part of a great journalistic tradition, boldly providing alternative views and independent sources of information.”—Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation
“GNN has covered the War on Terror like no one else.”—San Francisco Bay Guardian
Table of Contents
Foreword by Greg Palast
Introduction: Paradigm Shift
1) Meet the Press
2) The Road to Shanksville
3) Selling September 11
4) Cynthia’s War
5) The Anti-Imperial Imperialists
6) Silver Bullet or Dirty Bomb?
7) Deadly Jabs and Nightmare Pills
8) Black Box Democracy
9) Welcome to the (R)evolution
10) True Lies Netpendix