The most powerful weapon in the hands of authoritarians is the rigid mindset of the fooled and manipulated.

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• Excerpts from Propaganda: The Formation of Mens’ Attitudes, by Jacques Ellul. Jacques goes in-depth where few others have, with his excellent demystification of a phenomenon which a reviewer on the back cover says is *perhaps the most dangerous in the modern world*. Ellul gives his book as *a defense of Man* against that threat. (No, "propaganda" is not *all* persuasion as so many college students today are being led to believe via the game of Newspeak. And probably the reason propaganda *has* a negative connotation --and why "reputable" ideologues love to label challengers as such--is because propaganda is *SO CLOSE TO THE HEART* of the meta game and value system of manipulation; and **what better way to obfuscate the situation than by calling all independent efforts at promoting awareness "bad" or "disreputable" while mere "Information" from "reputable" sources is to be considered always good!** )

• Aldous Huxley in his *nonfiction* Brave New World-- REVISITED (some excerpts, including discussion of *over-organized man*, adaptation to  Given 'Reality' as insanity, etc.) (updated 10-20-02)

• The insights and ideas of John Trudell, hardened Santee-Sioux Indian dissident and visionary: index of many internal and external pages! --Including *We Are Power*, excerpts from Stickman, audio and text interviews and commentaries; with articulations of on-going efforts to keep domestic "citizens" colonized, insights on the psychological genocide of attacked people in general, including Whites, and a deeply-inspiring, yet autonomous, vision of what *all* may do about these realities. John's understanding of taken-for-granted beliefs sheds MUCH light where others have not!

• Noam Chomsky's full speech on much more than just the Iraq war "MEDIA CONTROL: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda", published online in its entirety, with permission from Chomsky (previously published at geocities.com...6904); includes a VERY important analysis of US policymaker ideology and goes into a history and background to the games policymakers and their media play, including behind-the-scenes aggressions against Iraq and many others.

• "Connect the dots" on broad terms: "It Starts In Childhood...."

• Lev Chernyi on *Desire or Guilt* in liberation movements

• " AGAINST THE LOGIC OF SUBMISSION: Neither Intellectualism Nor Stupidity" (a re-write of the same beyond the anarchists who wrote it originally)

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  "[W]e can be sure that the global battlefield of the 21st century will be over information --the dissemination or withholding of facts, the interpretation of events, the presentation or distortion of ideas and ideologies, and the communication of messages and symbols carefully prepared to provoke a particular reaction, either conscious or unconscious, from a target audience. ...By using communications as a tool of control, wealthy nations will be able re-establish their colonial empires (as has already been done in some places) through the "invisible dominance" of the media, the manipulation of economies, and intrusions into social policies."--from the Reporter's Collective on Propaganda & Psychological Warfare Studies

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  external links (note: some of these may be given with a disclaimer)

  individual luminaries

• Jason McQuinn, speaking at length about post-left anarchy (a four-part article/book).

• Ken Knabb and Public Secrets online here

• Bob Black (ideologues HATE him and work hard to suppress his powerful iconoclastic writings, and that's one of the reasons we wanted to list him here!)

• Herbert Brun, the now passed-on visionary and co-founder of the "School for designing a society".

• Raoul Vaneigem; read his book online: "The Revolution of Everyday Life"

• Osho, aka Bagwhan Shree Rajneesh; the maverick iconoclast of spiritualists who dared take a long list of mystifications by the horns and try to teach something very much along the lines of what a re-arisen Jesus figure might teach. And, not surprisingly, as he began gaining quite rapid influence in Oregon, suddenly all the known weapons (and others not so known at the time) packed by "our" War-oriented nation came out to discredit, hound, attack, kick out (of a long list of countries under heavy u.s. pressure), possibly murder, and now *re-write* history about this very interesting man. Some pretty valid-looking links: Osho Talks, the Open Directory Project's links on Osho, and a curiously vibrant site. (here's some excerpts I put together from a few sources including his rare and quite interesting book _Tantra Sex and Spirituality_--ed)

• Thomas Szasz (Szasz is the despised, yet prolific author and great challenger of coercive psychiatry and so-called "mental illness" since the 1950s. No one i’ve heard of has come close to spelling out the Meta games of the Therapeutic State better than Szasz; Deleuze and Guattari did something, but theirs was, for me, not nearly as accessible a read as Szasz's writings.

• David Ingleby (two articles: "Ideology and the Human Sciences"; and, if you can dig it up, "How Psychiatry and Behavioral Psychology Became Political Tools") The latter goes a bit further (and thus may be why it's so hard to find); yet for total demystification of scientific method one might try the following authors like Thomas Kuhn (see below))

• Thomas Kuhn: "Old Paradigms Die Hard" (See also: Michael Polanyi and Andreas Ehrencrona. Found an excerpt about Thomas Kuhn: "Thomas Kuhn changed the view of scientific progress totally. Where once the history of science was seen as a steady progression where theory is added to theory until the truth is found, Kuhn saw a series of revolutionary changes of the world-view of science, where the view of one period had very little in common with the previous. Most importantly, he questioned the possibility for science ever to find a truth."

• Paul Feyerabend (book: Against Method)--agains scientific method that is!

• Noam Chomsky (at least three important links: Z mag's Chomsky archive, with complete online books like Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies, and this other very more important site which goes into depths that zmag's site doesn't go into! (in my view). See also our internal link of Chomsky’s excellent "Media Control" speech *in its entirety--unlike Z mag's version, curiously*)

• John Stockwell (note: Stockwell is a heavy-weight cia/military insider dissident who is a highly decorated veteran officer and West Point graduate at the top of his class. His best stuff in our view is his demystification of elite u.s. policymakers from the viewpoint of someone who both was standing on equal footing with them, and once completely trusted them. May John continue to wake up!)

• Theodore Roszak (excerpts from his powerful, yet apparently rare book The Making of the Counterculture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and its Youthful Opposition; (forthcoming)

  Ongoing independent Projects

• Reporter’s Collective on propaganda, psy war, scientific deception, theory, and challenges facing colonized peoples of the world, and especially in Africa

• "Marching in parades, speaking out against atrocities must be done but, man, you better look at what you do for a living--what you participate in that causes the pain you speak out against."--from the curiously forever marginalized artist group called Zendik Farm (...The way so many in the "alternative" milieu use systematic hype to attack them, I figure they're worth adding here. Perhaps their "cult" status is given them like any group that is charismatic and beginning to gain influence beyond the pale of ideological interests? Having visited them for a short time when they were in Texas, I am definitely open to more discussion.)

• Indy Media's world-wide project of quite free (by Western "democratic" standards, anyway) 'open-publishing' news pages: http://www.indymedia.org/ (if having problems, try: chicago.indymedia.org, boston.indymedia.org, la.indymedia.org, and the left or bottom portion of those sites )

• Surprisingly interesting anarchist news, information, and debating site (a much more free-flowing discussion than average Euro-centric politics!)

• First Nations website, with a lot of excellent and inspiring information about American Indian trials and tribulations with the feds; especially good information on what's up lately with the American Indian Movement (AIM)--including both major factions (AIM, Inc. and Autonomous AIM).

• Portland Network for a New Culture (they’ve dealt with the usual visionary-breaking challenges with surprising integrity)

• The Alembic (apparently defunct, they still have a few interesting articles on their website, such as Lawrence E. Christopher's 'Beyond Radicalism')

• Rainbow Gathering (since the mid-1970s an experiment of mutual aid and free living has been finding success in giving at least thousands of people-- every year--in regional and national gatherings--a serious vision for life beyond the Given imagination! The federal government, however, has been waging a steadily growing war against Constitutionally protected places for free group gatherings, and so the Rainbow Gathering as we know it may soon be "legally" ended.

• Stop Shrinks site and their excellent reading room (especially interesting and informative); also don't miss www.antipsychiatry.org

• Gesundheit! Institute, envisioned by Patch Adams, is a steadily-becoming **free hospital** in West Virginia which is developing beautiful ***silliness*** (as a key cure) far beyond medical industry norms! wOw!

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