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American Conspiracies: Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies that the Government Tells Us |  | Authors: Jesse Ventura, Dick Russell
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Jesse Ventura tells it like it is, and this time he tackles our government’s biggest secrets. In this explosive account of wrongful acts and on-going cover-ups, Jesse Ventura takes a systematic look at the wide gap between what the American government knows and what it reveals to the American people. For too long, we the people have sat by and let politicians and bureaucrats from both parties obfuscate and lie. And according to this former Navy SEAL, former pro wrestler, and former Minnesota governor, the media is complicit in these acts of deception. For too long, the mainstream press has refused to consider alternate possibilities and to ask the tough questions. Here, Ventura looks closely at the theories that have been presented over the years and separates the fact from the fiction.
In Ventura’s eyes, the murder of Abraham Lincoln and the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, all need to be re-examined. Was Watergate presented honestly, or was the CIA involved? Did the Republican Party set out to purposefully steal two elections on behalf of George W. Bush? Has all the evidence been presented about the 9/11 attacks or is there another angle that the media is afraid to explore? And finally, is the collapse of today’s financial order and the bailout plan by the Federal Reserve the widest-reaching conspiracy ever perpetrated?
“If you’re talking outspoken, unconventional, and no-holds-barred, you’re talking Jesse Ventura.”—Larry King
“I wouldn’t mind seeing Ventura run for president (or for senator, or dog-catcher, or whatever). In addition to talking conspiracy, he’s likely to raise all sorts of other trouble.”—Damon W. Root, Reason Magazine
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 GOD HELP US ALL !!! March 10, 2010
Gordon Prentiss (Santa Barbara, CA)
148 out of 172 found this review helpful
Excellent book, and only for those void of any permanent brand of ideology. Ironic, considering Ventura himself seems to have an immovable ideology. But I like him. One must be able to think outside the box to digest this book. I found it utterly satisfying in every way. If you like Mr. Ventura on television, when he's successfully dismantling figures on the Right and Left in one single setting, you'll enjoy this book. There are only a select few politicians who are willing to call a spade a spade and Ventura has always been one of those people. Whether or not you believe the government may have been directly involved in 9/11 is your prerogative. But it's possibilities like this that Mr. Ventura is able to make us wonder about, and he does so quite effectively. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but he has me thinking about becoming one. The book makes you believe that what previously seemed like the impossible could actually be ... well ... possible! Very few books make you reevaluate what you previously swore to be true. I recently read a powerful book: 71 Days: The Media Assault On Obama, and I have a permanent disdain for the 21st Century media as a result. I actually already had a strong disdain, but that book still shocked me. It laid out convincing evidence that the falsely-called "Left Wing Media" was conspiring against the then candidate Obama. But once he won they rolled out the red carpet for him. Extraordinary read! And I feel the same way about "American Conspiracies." Ventura has managed to maintain that "everyman" persona that he carried to the governorship of Minnesota and deliver a detailed book that will be studied for years to come. A must read!
Jesse Ventura tells the truth March 11, 2010
Steven Hager (New York City)
68 out of 78 found this review helpful
This book is an excellent primer on some of the major political conspiracies in American history, from the Lincoln assassination to 9/11. Ventura's strong suit is avoiding the bogus conspiracy stories that have been planted to muddy the investigative waters and paint conspiracy theorists as a tinfoil hat brigade. Ventura knows those stories get planted by government spooks in the media to create straw men than can easily be torn down. Notice how we have a constant stream of "investigations" into UFOs on television, but nothing of any substance on 9/11? I was happy to see a chapter on Marine Corp. General Smedley Butler, a man who tried to blow the whistle on the Anglo-American cabal that was secretly running the country, manufacturing war for profit, only to be muzzled by Congress. Smedley should be celebrated as our greatest patriot since the Founding Fathers, instead he is virtually unknown. Another story that seldom gets told is how the Martin Luther King Jr. family won a civil case against the government for King's assassination after it was discovered two sniper teams were sent to Memphis that day, and that the bushes the sniper hid behind were immediately chopped down and removed a few hours after the shooting by police to sanitize the crime scene. Just as all the steel from the Twin Towers was disappeared as quickly as possible to sanitize that crime scene. Ventura picked one of the best researchers in the country to help him with this book, Dick Russell. Russell's book, "That Man Who Knew Too Much," is probably the best book ever written about the JFK assassination.
"No-Holds-Barred" & Takes-No-Prisoners February 27, 2010
David R. Wayne
129 out of 157 found this review helpful
STOLEN ELECTIONS, 9/11 COVER-UP, SANCTIONED DRUG-SMUGGLING, JFK, RFK, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - and lots more.
This book covers it all in a thoroughly enjoyable way as JESSE VENTURA &
DICK RUSSELL team up again and spell it out loud & clear in their patented
Let's-cut-through-the-b.s. style.
Think of it as a primer on what's really been happening in America --
written by someone just like you -- too sharp to swallow the "official
version" that's been force-fed to us from our so-called leaders and then
reinforced by mainstream media. And they have a news-flash for mainstream
media --
If it's What Really Happened then it's not "revisionist history" -- it's
What Really Happened.
So -- Buy it, Read it, Lend it, Talk to people about it -- it's important and very timely.
A Sound Sampler: Leads New Readers across CT Moat Dug by Disinfo Types back to Footnoted Facts of Cold War History March 13, 2010
Boyce Hart (nyc)
57 out of 68 found this review helpful
This book is a sound sampler of conspiracies most of which relate to our National Security State as established beginning in 1947, with clinching further developments occurring in the 1953-55 period following the profound rearrangement of the CIA under Dulles. Eisenhower was never short on second thoughts, long before his famous Farewell Address.
Jesse Ventura clearly articulates why these events are the epistemological keys to unlocking the myriad closed doors of our current state of may-as-well-be-state-run media driven society, and the garrison state for which it dissembles.
Dick Russell is one of the finest researchers in National Security State history that we have. His The Man Who Knew too Much, is nothing short of an epic tale of Cold War America and beyond. Never have I read a work so meticulously documented in Cold War history that also happens to move more electrically than any work of fiction. TMWKTM is a book that many have misunderstood, wanting instead some sort of reductive naming of trigge-pullers, instead of a structural investigation of what power really meant in Cold War America.
In American Cosnpiracies Russell puts his abudant expereience to good use, winnowing abundant chaff from wheat. The depth and breadth of his more than thirty years scholarship is absolutely necessary given all the disinformation about these topics.
Without any doubt the next book that readers of this book should read, however, is the most important work of Cold War History published in 42 years. That book is JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters by James W. DoussJFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters
Former CIA agent Ray McGovern mentioned this as the most important new book on the JFK assassination in his absolutely necessary article which was published in December 2009 entitled "Are President's Afraid of the CIA" In that article-- and another which preceded it earlier last December and which is equally must reading-- McGovern described how former President Harry S. Truman was censored by the Washington Post and later cajoled by Warren Commission member Allen Dulles for making writing an incredibly strong editorial condemning the CIA for becoming, in effect, a policy making, rather than a policy implementing organization.
I agree with McGovern that JFK and the Unspeakable is the single most important book on the Assassination by a long shot.
And so does Daniel Ellsberg, of Pentagon Papers Fame. This is what Ellsberg has to say about Douglass book:
Douglass presents, brilliantly, an unfamiliar yet thoroughly convincing account of a series of
creditable decisions of John F. Kennedy-- at odds with his initial Cold War Stance-- that
earned him the secret distrust and hatred of hard-liners among the Joint Chiefs of Staff
and the CIA"
Now Daniel Ellsberg knows a thing or two about the CIA and its very own CIA policies in Vietnam. With a recommendation like that from someone of his vast importance in our entire Cold War historiography, it is fair to ask why has this book not received a single review in the Corporate Media.
It has also received rave reviews from the likes of former top aid to McGeorge Bundy in the JFK White House Macus Raskin, Princeton University professor Richard Falk and numerous other academics. But not a review anywhere in the corporate press.
Could it be related to the fact that JFK and the Unspeakable places primary responsibility on the CIA?
The scholarship in Unspeakable is unassailable and nimble. Each chapter has between six hundred and over nine-hundred footnotes. That's right I said each chapter. These footnotes are from top academic sources.
So much work has been done by subsidized disinformation writers to dig a moat around the JFK Assassination in order to trivialize it and cut it off from the threads of Cold War history that run through it in myriad ways. This book bridges that moat. Most left readers of hired JFK bashers such as Noam Chomsky will be very very surprised at what the latest academic histories are saying re: the question of whether JFK was getting out of Vietnam:Yes. I am a person on the left, and I am so often amazed at how little those on the left actually know about US foreign policy of1960-63 period. FOr them there is no JCS and CIA. Its just the President and his little handmaids. Funny how Newsweek and Chomsky seem to agree on only two things, and they are the very things that could win the largest audiences: JFK and 9/11. Sad how virtually all of the scholarship from the best academic history publishers in America such as Harvard and the University of California Press all contradict the Chomsky-Newseek view, but are little known because they pass unreviewed into the blind night of press-pooled America.
JFK and the Unspeakable is the single most important book of Cold War history since the publication of Gabriel Kolko's groundbreaking reinterpretation, The Politics of War, was published in 1968. There is no more important book on earth for the future of the United States than this one.
American Conspiracies shows the benefit of Dick Russell's years of experience and his ability to see beyond the superficial who dunnit to the much more important why done it. This book helps us build a bridge from the spineless media of today back to reality, as in 1975, when The NYT almost every day featured front page revelations on the CIA that today would only be ridiculed by the likes of Olbermann and his completely discredited buddy, who was the author of a book called Case Closed a while back. Today no scholars go near that book with a ten foot pole. Is there a quid pro quo going on in American "liberal" journalism.
If one researches the history of Encounter Magazine, the CIA fake-left disinformation magazine from the Cold War years, this suggestion might not seem so outlandish. The history of Encounter-- as is discussed in such excellent books as The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World Of Arts and Letters by Frances Saunders and The Mighty Wurlitzer (See my review on Amazon) show that often these so called left-shows can paradoxically serve rightist ends because they reinforce common assumptions with the legitimizing stamp of "reason". Often, one learns, a more honest stamp would read "Timorous Conformity."
Simply eye-opening March 10, 2010
A. Shay (Seattle, WA USA)
65 out of 79 found this review helpful
This book simply is eye-opening. The conclusion that I get is that we can't trust the government and what is told and taught is not at all the reality. The research done for the book is outstanding and other than his opinions, they are mostly all government documents and well-reserched material.
Looking at some of the unfounded and idiotic bad reviews on this book, I ask -
Why is it easy to see corruption in countries like China, Russia, Venezuela, North Korea, and Cuba, but so hard to see the corruption in America? I believe it's because of so much brain-washing in Media, Education, and politics and while I love this country dearly, before we realized, we have become a near-fascist country.
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