This original work contains exclusive interviews with a range of noted scholars, including Noam Chomsky, Linda McQuaig, John McMurtry and Brian Martin. They speak candidly about understanding power, spin and information management, and the costs of dissent. The book also features an exclusive interview with David Miller, who speaks openly about Iraq, U.S. and corporate world domination, the origins of the propaganda model in the United Kingdom, and the death of Dr. David Kelly, British weapons expert who leaked information to the media about what the British government knew about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Each of essays in this collection considers the ways in which power and ideology work within contemporary society. Apart from the feature interviews, essays include an examination of patriotic correctness (the new 'PC') and the repression of dissent in America; U.

S. foreign policy toward Cuba; the myth of the neutral professional; academic culture and the cost of dissent in universities; how dissent is typically kept to manageable levels in the U.S. and the UK media; the East Asian Financial Crisis; the near-genocide in East Tim and the economic, emotional, and familial impacts of workplace injury and the ideology of the Worker's Compensation Board. Book jacket.