The world is not the way they tell you it is."
Adam Smith, 1723-1790, economist and philosopher
"The news and truth are not the same thing."
Walter Lippmann, 1889-1974, American journalist
"Most people, sometime in their lives, stumble across truth. Most jump up, brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business as if nothing had happened."
Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, English statesman
"A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins."
Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American statesman and inventor
"If you want to know about the world and understand and educate yourself, you have to dig; dig up books and articles, read and find out for yourself."
John Stockwell, the highest-ranking CIA official ever to leave the agency and go public, from a lecture given in October 1987
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963, English novelist and critic
"Your failure to be informed, does not make me a wacko."
John Loeffler, host Steel on Steel radio program
"The American people may think that they live in a free country when, in reality, things could not be more controlled. The American public must be made aware of what is really taking place in the United States."
Melvin Sickler
"But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known"
Luke 12:2
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self- evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopherÂ
"Television in its present form, (is) the opiate of the people of the United States."
Richard M. Nixon, 37th President
"Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation...Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information - misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information - information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing."
Neil Postman, author, and professor at NYU
"The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell the country for his daily bread...We are tools and vassals for rich men behind the scenes...We are intellectual prostitutes."
John Swinton, New York Times editor in a speech before the New York
Press Club, 1953
"Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have."
Richard Salant, former president CBS news, from the book, Economic
Solutions by Peter Kershaw, page 29
"We paid $3 billion for these television stations. We will decide what the news is. The news is what we tell you it is."
David Boylan, WTVT Tampa Bay, FL station manager, April 16, 1997
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media."
William Colby, former CIA director
"Disinformation is a large part of its (CIA) covert action responsibility, and the American people are the primary target of its lies."
Ralph McGehee, former CIA intelligence analyst, author of Deadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA
"The (CIA) Agency has owned outright more than 240 Media operations around the world, including newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, radio and television stations, and wire services, and has partially controlled many more."
Michael Parenti, political scientist and author
"The lie can only be maintained for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of it's powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State."
Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels, Nazi propoganda minister
"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had not subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries."
David Rockefeller, international banker, founder of the Trilateral Commission, chairman of Council on Foreign Relations 1970-1985, remarks in an address to a meeting of The Trilateral Commission in June, 1991
"I have the greatest admiration for your propaganda. Propaganda in the West is carried out by experts who have had the best training in the world - in the field of advertizing - and have mastered the techniques with exceptional proficiency...Yours are subtle and persuasive; ours are crude and obvious...I think that the fundamental difference between our worlds, with respect to propaganda, is quite simple. You tend to believe yours...and we tend to disbelieve ours."
a Soviet correspondent based five years in the U.S.
"One of the Iraq war's major casualties is the credibility of the American media. Nobody takes it seriously."
BBC World News commentator, March 24, 2003
"The owners and managers of the press determine which person, which facts, which version of the facts, and which ideas shall reach the public."
Report by the Commission on Freedom of the Press, quoted in Democracy for the Few by Michael Parenti, and Don't Blame the People by Robert Cirino
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it people will eventually come to believe it."
Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propoganda minister
"The United States is not only number one in military power but also in the effectiveness of its propaganda system."
Edward S. Herman, political economist and author, from Z magazine, September 2001, page 42
"The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology."
Michael Parenti, author and lecturer
"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think."
Adolph Hitler, Chancellor of Germany 1933-1945
"Nothing just happens in politics. If something happens you can be sure it was planned that way."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President
There are two views of history. 1: History happens by accident or 2: It is planned.
The general public is taught that history happens by accident. However, the upper echelons...know that history is planned.
R.E. McMaster, Jr., financial advisor and author
