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The Last Days of Democracy: How Big Media and Power-hungry Government Are Turning America into a Dictatorship
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ISBN-13: | 9781591025047 |
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Publisher: | Prometheus Books |
Publication date: | 04/03/2007 |
Pages: | 336 |
Product dimensions: | 5.68(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.74(d) |
About the Author
Elliot D. Cohen, Ph.D. (Port St. Lucie, FL), is the director of the Institute of Critical Thinking, the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Applied Philosophy, ethics editor for Free Inquiry magazine, and the author or editor of many books in journalism, professional ethics, and philosophical counseling, including News Incorporated: Corporate Media Ownership and Its Threat to Democracy, Journalistic Ethics (with Deni Elliot), Philosophical Issues in Journalism, and What Would Aristotle Do? Self-Control through the Power of Reason.
Bruce W. Fraser, Ph.D. (Vero Beach, FL), is founder and president of Americans for Moral Government, a political action committee devoted to the preservation and promotion of democratic values.
Table of Contents
Introduction Peter Phillips, director, Project Censored 9
The New American Dictatorship 17
London Bridge Is Falling Down 17
The Emperor Is Naked 32
Bush's "Culture of Life" Is Really a Culture of Oppression 47
The Fox Is Guarding the Henhouse 55
Who's in Bed with Whom? 55
The Socio-Pathology of Corporate Media Giants 62
Less Unscrupulous Media Corporations 64
Film Censorship: Coming Soon to a Theater Near You 72
Look Who's Not Looking Out for You 81
The High-Priced Hookers of Mediaville 81
Journalists with Chutzpah 93
The Media Matrix 108
The Un-American Dream 109
The Illusion of Freedom 110
Extreme Makeover of the American Mind 118
Wasting Away in Mediaville 127
Manufacturing Prejudice 127
Exploiting Family Relations 130
Dumbing Down America 136
Marketing War 139
Blaming the Liberals 148
The Quiet Plot to Steal America 150
The Myth of Liberal Bias 155
Shock and Awe 173
American Terrorism (The MSM Covers Up the Blood) 173
Bush's War on Terror: Keep Us Afraid, We'll Submit 176
Who Terrorized Whom on 9/11? 183
Big Brother Is Watching Us 195
Dissidents Beware: The Outing of CIA Operative Valerie Plame 197
Prosecuting Journalists as Traitors for Doing Their Job 202
Project for the New American Net 208
The PNAN Plan 209
The Supreme Betrayal of Internet Freedom 212
Silencing the Little Guy: The Mega Telecom "Pay for Play" Plan 217
The Great American Firewall 219
Now Under Way: The Hostile Takeover of Wi-Fi Internet 228
Pax Americana 233
America the Tyrannical: The Neoconservative Vision for the Twenty-first Century 234
The Godfathers of K Street 246
Deconstructing Politico-Corporate Power 254
Democracy in a Black Box 259
The Help America Vote Act (AKA: The Help to End Free Elections in America Act) 261
The Unimpeachable Evidence for Widespread, Systematic Voting Fraud 271
What Now, Compatriots? 290
The Timely Lesson of Nazi Germany 291
Keeping Informed with Indie Media 298
Saving the Free Internet 300
Peaceful Assembly and Civil Disobedience 302
Educators Are Vanguards of Democracy 306
Selected Media 313
Selected Bibliography 317
Index 321