Not a Conspiracy Theory: How Business Propoganda Hijacks Democracy

• Donald Gutstein
• Key Porter Books, 2009
• Paperback, 376 pages
• 9781554701919

North Americans have expressed themselves loud and clear on a wide range of issues--like the need for expanded and affordable health care—but it often feels like the politicians in power aren’t really listening.   The truth is, maybe they aren’t.   In Not a Conspiracy Theory, Donald Gutstein skillfully documents one of the most important but least recognized political developments in the last thirty years: the prolonged propaganda campaigns mounted by business to change our minds on fundamental issues of social life.   He explores such topics as the Propaganda Century; American Roots: The Rise of the Corporate Propaganda System; The Propoganda Machine in Action: The '90s and Beyond; Delaying Action on Climate Change: Killing Medicare … to save it? and, Targeting Corporate Propaganda’s Vulnerabilities.