The Flight from Truth: The Reign of Deceit in the Age of InformationIn the tradition of Without Marx or Jesus and How Democrats Perish, Revel issues a call to arms against the most insidious and pervasive force in the world today: the dissemination of false information, the withholding of truths, the distrtions of the day. A brilliant, impassioned, well-argued book. |
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... denounced the Center for Democracy , which had been set up in the United States by Russian dissident exiles closely linked to Sergei Grigoriantz's Glasnost periodical in the USSR . Glasnost , which has had some trouble surviving ...
... denounced the Center for Democracy , which had been set up in the United States by Russian dissident exiles closely linked to Sergei Grigoriantz's Glasnost periodical in the USSR . Glasnost , which has had some trouble surviving ...
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... denounce the U.S. atomic bomb as harmful and praise the Soviet atomic bomb as eminently salutary to mankind . One can perfectly well be a genuine atomic scientist and yet formulate irresponsible affirmations on certain aspects of ...
... denounce the U.S. atomic bomb as harmful and praise the Soviet atomic bomb as eminently salutary to mankind . One can perfectly well be a genuine atomic scientist and yet formulate irresponsible affirmations on certain aspects of ...
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... denouncing " fascist " methods and an " end " to freedom and human rights . " The Handcuffed Press " was the headline in La Repubblica on March 18. Now , in all democratic countries , particularly in Great Brit- ain , which has been far ...
... denouncing " fascist " methods and an " end " to freedom and human rights . " The Handcuffed Press " was the headline in La Repubblica on March 18. Now , in all democratic countries , particularly in Great Brit- ain , which has been far ...
Contents
On Our Resistance to Information | 3 |
What Is Our Civilization? II | 11 |
On Simple Lies | 19 |
Copyright | |
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