[Winter 2006]
The "Relentlessly Persuasive"
Propaganda Issue

Step right up, folks—come this way! Just behind this curtain lies an amazing world of manipulation and deceit. See public relations masters manipulate popular opinion and consumer habits right before your very eyes; marvel at the creation of concepts like "raw water" and "political correctness"; gawk at the monstrosity of video news releases; and much, much more.

The Lineup:

FRONT MATTER: Goodbye! Honest Obituaries for a Dishonest World; Electioneering; Letters, Letters, and More Letters; Flag Burning; PR Disasters; the Power Rewards Card; and more.

FEATURES

• The River vs. Water, Inc.
  an interview with Vandana Shiva by Antonia Juhasz
• Propaganda, Public Relations, and the Not-So-New Dark Age
  by Stephen Bender
• And Now For Something Completely Biased: Manufacturing the Nightly News
  an interview with Daniel Price by Erin Wiegand
• Propagating Popular Resistance: The Poetics, Public Relations, and Fetish of Zapatismo
  by Jeff Conant
• "12 Steps" for Whiteness
  by damali ayo
• Battle Tanks: How Think Tanks Shape the Public Agenda
  by Bob Burton
• Conveying Correctness: The Prefabrication of Political Speech
  an interview with Chip Berlet by Brian Awehali
• Madness & Mass Society: Pharmaceuticals, Psychiatry, and the Rebellion of True Community
  an interview with Bruce Levine by Brian Awehali
• Failure By Design: Prisons, Individual Responsibility, and the Myth of the American Dream
  by Vanessa Huang and Alice do Valle
• The New Commission on Global Media
  by Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Tricia Snell

READINGS

• What is True for Products is Also True for Countries
  by Eduardo Galeano (translated by Mark Fried)
• Reinventing Truth: Appropriating the Language of Resistance in Nicaragua
  by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
• This Typface is Changing Your Life
  by Leslie Savan

BOOK REVIEWS

• Dreams of Freedom: a Ricardo Flores Magon Reader
• Fledgling, by Octavia Butler
• Dam Nation: Notes From the Water Underground, by Laura Allen and Cleo Woelfle-Erskine

MUSIC REVIEWS

• Grrls Gone Wild: Ladyfest Olympia, 2005
• Reviews: Nausea; Nickodemus; Say Bok Gwai

FILM REVIEWS

• About Baghdad; Argentina: Hope in Hard Times; Jericho's Echo

PLUS: properly contemptuous editorial cartoons; obliquely hilarious side matter; and other rewarding nuggets for those who pay close attention.

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