Part 1 Image and reality: a third world war - a political economy of the Persian Gulf War and the new world order, Andre Gunder Frank; manipulating hearts and minds, H.I. Schiller; roots of war - the long road of intervention, H. Mowlana; the media and the war - what war?, Naom Chomsky. Part 2 Many nations, one image: the new world odour - the Indian experience, P. Sainath; the state, the Malaysian press, and the war in West Asia, Zaharom Nainn; Japanese position in the war and regional issues, Masanori Naito; Japanese media and the war (interview), Tetsuo Kogawa; the war close to home - the Turkish media, Haluk Sahin; the Iranian press and the Persian Gulf War - the impact of western news agencies, Kazem Motamed Nejad, et al; western media - guilty until proved innocent Khawia Mattar; war reporting - collateral damage in the European theatre, Farrel Corcoran; ruling by pooling, Stig A. Nohrstedt; innovations of moral policy, Heikki Luostarinen; truth - the first victim of war?, Rune Ottoslen; public opinion and media war coverage in Britain, Professor Martin Shaw and Roy Carr-Hill; a Soviet snapshot, Eugeni Mikitenko; coverage of the war by the Spanish and Catalonian media, Hector Borrat; the war as Telenovela, Omar Souki Oliveira; a sampling of editorial responses from the Middle East press on the Persian Gulf crisis, H. Mowlana, et al.

Part 3 Coming back to reality: twisting the UN charter to US ends, Richard A. Falk; CNN - elites talking to elites, Richard C. Vincent; exterminating angels - morality, violence and technology in the Gulf War, Asu Aksoy and Kevin Robins; back to the future, Kamel S. Abu Jaber; more viewing, less knowledge, Michael Morgan, et al; joysticks, manhood and George Bush's horse, Rami G. Khouri; clusters of reality bombed into bold relief, Erskine B. Childers; dangers of the cultural invasion?, Mostafa Mahmoud; Persian Gulf War - the movie, George Gerbner.