Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-389).

Keynote address. Reality is a shared hallucination / Howard Bloom. The news media and other manipulators. What makes mainstream media mainstream / Noam Chomsky -- Journalists doing somersaults / Norman Solomon -- The puppets of pandemonium / Howard Bloom -- New rules for the new millennium / Gary Webb -- The covert news network / Greg Bishop -- Why does the Associated Press change its articles? / Russ Kick -- We distort, you abide / Kenn Thomas -- The media and their atrocities / Michael Parenti -- Making molehills out of mountains / Marni Sullivan -- Whey they hate Oliver Stone / Sam Smith -- The Martin Luther King you don't see on TV / Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon -- Sometimes lying means only telling a small part of the truth / R.U. Sirius, with Michael Horowitz and the Friends of Timothy Leary -- Upon hearing of the electronic bogeyman / George Smith -- School textbooks / Earl Lee -- The information arms race / Douglas Rushkoff. Politricks. The war secrets Senator John McCain hides / Sydney Schanberg -- Jimmy Carter and human rights / Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon -- All the president's men / David McGowan -- Oil before ozone / Russ Kick -- God save the president! / Robin Ramsay -- Colony Kosovo / Christian Parenti -- The truth about terrorism / Ali Abunimah -- You can't win / James Ridgeway. Official versions. Anatomy of a school shooting / David McGowan -- How the people seldom catch intelligence / Preston Peet -- Reassessing the OKC / Cletus Nelson -- Votescam / Jonathan Vankin -- The Rabin murder cover-up / Barry Chamish -- What's missing from this picture? / Jim Marrs -- The social fabrication. Don't blame your parents / interview with Judith Rich Harris -- The female hard-on / Tristan Taormino -- Art and the eroticism of puberty / David Steinberg -- "A world that hates gays" / Philip Jenkins -- Apt pupils / Robert Sterling -- A panic of biblical proportions over media violence / Paul McMasters -- The man in the bushes / interview with Philip Jenkins. Condemned to repeat it. Amnesia in America / James Loewen -- Columbus and western civilization / Howard Zinn -- Go out and kill people because this article tells you to / Nick Mamatas -- Saving Private Power / Michael Zezima -- What I didn't know about the communist conspiracy / Jim Martin. Tripping. Drug war mythology / Paul Armentano -- Toad-licking blues / Thomas Lyttle -- Poppycock / Jim Hogshire -- AA lies / Charles Bufe -- The unconscious roots of the drug war / Dan Russell -- Holy rolling. The truth about Jesus / M.M. Mangasarian -- The bible code / David Thomas -- Mystics and messiahs / interview with Philip Jenkins -- Who's who in hell / interview with Warren Allen Smith. Blinded by science. Environmentalism for the twenty-first century / Patrick Moore -- Humans have already been cloned / Russ Kick -- Nutrafear & nutraloathing in Augusta, Georgia / Alex Constantine -- Forbidden archaeology / Michael A. Cremo -- There is so much that we don't know / William R. Corliss. The big picture. Will the real human being please stand up? / Riane Eisler -- You are being lied to : a disinformation books roundtable / Alex Burns -- I have met God and he lives in Brooklyn / Richard Metzger -- Church of the motherfucker / Mark Pesce -- A sentient universe / Peter Russell -- A lost theory? / David Loye.