Two successful entrepreneurs offer a no-nonsense guide to the qualities that make people suited to starting their own businesses.In today's world of startup companies, entrepreneurs are disrupting industries and fueling the economy like never before. It's an exciting life where no day is quite like the next. But along with the adventure comes a lot of uncertainty, and not everyone is suited to the entrepreneurial life. So, what does it take?In Self Empl...

Weapons of Mass Deception reveals:How the Iraq war was sold to the American public through professional P.R. strategies."The First Casualty": Lies that were told related to the Iraq war.Euphemisms and jargon related to the Iraq war, e.g. "shock and awe," "Operation Iraqi Freedom," "axis of evil," "coalition of the willing," etc."War as Opportunity": How the war on terrorism and the war on Iraq have been used as marketing hooks to sell products an...

**The authors of Toxic Sludge Is Good for You! unmask the sneaky and widespread methods industry uses to influence opinion through bogus experts, doctored data, and manufactured facts.**We count on the experts. We count on them to tell us who to vote for, what to eat, how to raise our children. We watch them on TV, listen to them on the radio, read their opinions in magazine and newspaper articles and letters to the editor. We trust them to tell us what to think, because there’s t...

The war in Iraq may be remembered as the point at which the propaganda model perfected in the twentieth century stopped working: the world is too complex, information is too plentiful, and-as events in Iraq reveal- propaganda makes bad policy.The Best War Ever is about a war that was devised in fantasy and lost in delusion. It highlights the futility of lying to oneself and others in matters of life and death. And it offers lessons to the current generation so that, at lea...