Secret and Suppressed: Banned Ideas and Hidden History [Paperback]

Jim Keith (Editor)

Product Details

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: Feral House (July 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0922915148
• ISBN-13: 978-0922915149
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #486,350 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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45 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For the Openminded, May 18, 2001

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Jonathan Schaper (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Secret and Suppressed: Banned Ideas and Hidden History (Paperback)

This book doesn't pretend to be 100% true. The editor Keith even warns to the introduction of some articles that this or that particular one may be deliberate disinformation. However, as he notes in the introduction to the book, most media is unwilling to even allow the public to consider ideas that are counter to accepted dogma and make up their own minds, and the purpose of the book is to stimulate debate.

Some of the articles are extremely well researched and beyond dispute and in the vein of the Project Censored book series, like one proving that the Jonestown Massacre was NOT a mass suicide but a mass murder (drinking poison Kool-Aid does not leave bullet holes in one's back). There are more questionable but still interesting articles, e.g. one on how Aids was invented by the government to eliminate blacks and gays, but with some clearly factual background. A, what I assume, is a brilliant social satire written from the point of view of "The Conspiracy" called "Quiet Weapons for Secret Wars" which one realizes, after reading for a while, is about how the monetary system ITSELF(vs. Capitalism, etc.) may be seen as a tool of social control. There are also paranoid rants of varying worth, but the most indisputely brilliant of them being by Shelby Downard which may be easy to dismiss on an intellectual level, but is very effective on an emotional level.

Also included is a brilliant essay "Is Paranoia a Form of Awareness?" written by the only person to have published a book about Lee Harvey Oswald BEFORE the Kennedy Assasination (about their life in the Marines and as guinea pigs for MK-Ultra) that notes that the so-called average person is usually in a state of denial and also notes his own experiences with the Garrison investigation (depicted in the movie JFK).

And don't place any importance into the fact that there is a swastika on the cover. There is also a cross, a crescent, and other symbols that have been used to control the masses on the cover. The fact that someone who hasn't even read the book missed the point further illustrates the book's necessity.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Um...yeah..., October 11, 2000

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Alan Williams (Milwaukee, WI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Secret and Suppressed: Banned Ideas and Hidden History (Paperback)

Entertaining? Quite. If you are at all a fan of the subject, you'll get a laugh or two. The book reads like a conspircy-minded website, not a whole lot of material to back up the various author's claims. When some soure material is mentioned, it's usally in the form of a single book, magazine, or article.

All in all, a fun read, but I have seen better from Keith.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read, February 27, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Secret and Suppressed: Banned Ideas and Hidden History (Paperback)

This book is a page-turner and hard to put down, though at times one must put it down to absorb the shock of the information. Many will be surprised, and actually horrified how the government within a government worked behind the scenes for many years up to the present. I highly recommend this book and ignore and am amused at those who desire to continue to keep the information hidden and suppressed.