
Why Are We The Good Guys?
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- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Golden Rule of State Violence
- Two Classroom Experiments
- A Shock to the System
- The Marshall Plan: Myth and Actuality
- Bad News from the Middle East
- The BBC Ponders Another Moral Issue
- Helen 'The Hidden' Boaden
- 'A Brilliant Act of Hypnosis'
- 2 Shoring up the Edifice of Benign Power
- The Origins of Media Lens
- The Unreporting of the West's Genocide in Iraq
- The Propaganda Model and the Price of Iraq
- Burying Unpeople and Inconvenient Facts
- A Strange Encounter with the Former Foreign Secretary
- When Untruths Prevail, Catastrophes May Ensue
- 'The Price Has Been Worth It,' Once Again
- 3 How to Cover Your Tracks After Promoting War
- All the Apocryphal Stories Fit to Print
- The Observer: 'Yes, We Read the Paper, Old Friend'
- ITN: Nothing to Apologise For
- Independent on Sunday: A True Guardian of Power
- Head of BBC TV News: 'Always Happy to Debate'
- Don't Look at Us - Look at Them!
- The Masquerade of Media Balance
- 4 Promoting Public Ignorance
- The Chains of Seduction
- 'We See Further into the Future'
- 'A Load of Cobblers'
- Balance Sheets, Death and Silence
- 'Public Opinion of No Value'
- 'Fantasy Land'
- Burying the Cable
- The BBC 'Notes' Privately That There Are Dissenting Views
- 5 Global Climate Crime
- Dancing with a Fossil Fuel Dinosaur
- Climate out of Control
- Guarding the Mythology of 'Failure to Act'
- Who's Holding Us Back?
- 'A Death Sentence for Africa'
- 'A Crime of Global Proportions'
- The Eightfold Nay: The Great Unmentionables of Climate Coverage
- 6 Power's Assault on Democracy
- The Invisible Corporate Shadow
- 'Good People Work for Corporations, Too'
- Poverty and the 'Defence' Budget
- The Power Inquiry and Gaping Holes in Media Coverage
- Public Interests Would Mean 'Disaster' for Elites
- 7 Endless Echoes
- Racing the Enemy
- The Real Meaning of the Potsdam Proclamation
- Crucial Questions About Truman Left Unanswered
- 'Deeply Flawed' Casualty Claims
- What Compelled the Japanese Surrender?
- The Nuclear Hammer Still Above Our Heads
- 8 The Madness of the Global Economy
- A Sprinkling of Stardust Covering Ugly Realities
- The Masters of the Universe Cling to Power
- Boom and Bust
- Official Fraud and Propaganda
- The Neoliberal Nightmare
- 'Most of Us Get These Things out of Our System When We Are Students': A Tangle with the Economics Editor of the Sunday Times
- 'You Sanctimonious Nitwit': Financial Times Chief Economics Commentator Unhappy with Debating in Public
- 'Dealing with the World as it is'? Jousting with Independent Economics Commentator
- The Latest 'Success Stories' of Capitalism
- 'A Large Statistical Glitch'
- The Failure of Professional Journalism
- 9 Beyond Indifference
- Authentic Existence and the 'Outsider Problem'
- Spring Bloom and a Burst Appendix
- Indifference Arising from Clutching Desire
- Contemplating Death
- The Unanswered Question: What Would Nietzsche's Superman Actually Do?
- Total Compassion, Not Total Indifference
- Transforming Suffering into Freedom
- 'Go Ahead, Make My Day!'
- Letting Go of Old Bad Habits by Focusing on Others
- 10 Freedom at Last?
- Regulating the University Mind
- The Disciplined Professional
- Predatory Urges, Plastic Brains and Empowerment
- The Multidimensional Human Being
- Escaping Our Hardwiring
- 'This is a Damn Good Show Tonight!'
- 'Just War' or Just Another War?
- 'A Saint is Less Dangerous than a Rebel'
- Time to Wake Up
- Notes
- Bibliography
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