How Evil Works

Informationen zum Autor David Kupelian is an award-winning journalist and author, and serves as managing editor of online news giant WorldNetDaily as well as its monthly newsmagazine Whistleblower. His 2005 book "The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom," currently in its 10th printing, remains one of the most popular books on America's raging culture war. Kupelian has been featured on Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes," "Your World with Neil Cavuto" and "Dayside," MSNBC's "The Situation with Tucker Carlson," CBN's "The 700 Club" and "Newswatch" as well as numerous other TV and radio shows.He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and children. Klappentext The author of "The Marketing of Evil" and managing editor of WorldNetDaily.com explains the destructive forces at work in the U.S. CHAPTER 1 + IN GOVERNMENT WE TRUST Why We Elect Liars as Leaders Nixon: I Wasn't Lying. I Said Things That Later On Seemed to Be Untrue Washington Post, NOVEMBER 29, 1978 Clinton Concedes He Lied About Affair Washington Times, AUGUST 18, 1998 Obama Promises Tax Cuts to 95 Percent of Americans, Even Though 44 Percent of Filers Pay $0 in Income Taxes. Manchester Union Leader, NOVEMBER 4, 2008 Did you ever stop to wonder why most governmentsno matter where on earth you look, or what time period you considertend toward being tyrannical and predatory? I'm not referring just to those unfortunate nations suffering under openly brutal dictatorships. Even here in the West, where our elected governments portray themselves as benevolent and democratic, somehow they always end up taxing, legislating, and regulating us into servitude. Why? To bring this topic into sharp focus, let's start by taking a whirlwind tour of the world's governments: • Before America and its coalition partners invaded Iraq and deposed Saddam Hussein, giving the Iraqi people a chance to choose another destiny, here's what life was like there, according to the U.S. State Department: In 1979, immediately upon coming to power, Saddam Hussein silenced all political opposition in Iraq and converted his one-party state into a cult of personality. Over the more than 20 years since then, his regime has systematically executed, tortured, imprisoned, raped, terrorized and repressed Iraqi people.1 Though Iraq was once rich in culture with a long history of intellectual and scientific achievement, Saddam silenced its scholars and doctors, as well as its women and children with unimaginable cruelty, the official report documents: Iraqi dissidents are tortured, killed or disappear in order to deter other Iraqi citizens from speaking out against the government or demanding change. A system of collective punishment tortures entire families or ethnic groups for the acts of one dissident. Women are raped and often videotaped during rape to blackmail their families. Citizens are publicly beheaded, and their families are required to display the heads of the deceased as a warning to others who might question the politics of this regime.2 With such unspeakable atrocities a part of daily life, why didn't more Iraqis complain publicly? Maybe because of Saddam's decree in 2000 authorizing the government to amputate the tongues of citizens who criticized him or his government. The report also documents Saddam's use of chemical weapons (that's right, weapons of mass destruction) against his own people, destroying more than sixty villages and 30,000 citizenssome international organizations say 60,000with mustard gas and nerve agents. • In North Korea, every citizen is the slave of a demented ruling family. While Kim Jong Ilor the dear leader, as all are required to call himlives in ostentatious regal splendor, most North Koreans endure crushing poverty. Indeed, duri...

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The author of "The Marketing of Evil" and managing editor of WorldNetDaily.com explains the destructive forces at work in the U.S.

Zusammenfassung
David Kupelian, veteran journalist and bestselling author of The Marketing of Evil, probes the millennia-old questions of evil—what it is, how it works, and why it so routinely and effortlessly ruins our lives—once again demonstrating his uncanny knack for demystifying complex, elusive, and intimidating subjects with fresh insights into the hidden mechanisms of seduction, corruption, religion, and power politics. Analyzing today’s most electrifying news stories and hot-button topics, Kupelian explores such profoundly troubling questions as

Why are big lies more believable than little ones?

How does terrorism really work?

Why do so many celebrities who “have it all” end up self-destructing?

Why are boys doing worse in school today than girls?

Why do we treat the problems of anger and depression with drugs?

. . . and much more. Fortunately, once we really understand “how evil works”—both in our own lives and in the world at large—evil loses much of its power and the way out becomes more clear.

Leseprobe
CHAPTER 1

• IN GOVERNMENT WE TRUST

Why We Elect Liars as Leaders

Nixon: “I Wasn’t Lying. I Said Things That Later On Seemed to Be Untrue” —Washington Post, NOVEMBER 29, 1978

Clinton Concedes He Lied About Affair —Washington Times, AUGUST 18, 1998

Obama Promises “Tax Cuts” to 95 Percent of Americans, Even Though 44 Percent of Filers Pay $0 in Income Taxes. —Manchester Union Leader, NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Did you ever stop to wonder why most governments—no matter where on earth you look, or what time period you consider—tend toward being tyrannical and predatory? I’m not referring just to those unfortunate nations suffering under openly brutal dictatorships. Even here in the West, where our elected governments portray themselves as benevolent and democratic, somehow they always end up taxing, legislating, and regulating us into servitude. Why?

To bring this topic into sharp focus, let’s start by taking a whirlwind tour of the world’s governments:

• Before America and its coalition partners invaded Iraq and deposed Saddam Hussein, giving the Iraqi people a chance to choose another destiny, here’s what life was like there, according to the U.S. State Department: “In 1979, immediately upon coming to power, Saddam Hussein silenced all political opposition in Iraq and converted his one-party state into a cult of personality. Over the more than 20 years since then, his regime has systematically executed, tortured, imprisoned, raped, terrorized and repressed Iraqi people.”1 Though Iraq was once “rich in culture with a long history of intellectual and scientific achievement,” Saddam “silenced its scholars and doctors, as well as its women and children” with unimaginable cruelty, the official report documents:

Iraqi dissidents are tortured, killed or disappear in order to deter other Iraqi citizens from speaking out against the government or demanding change. A system of collective punishment tortures entire families or ethnic groups for the acts of one dissident. Women are raped and often videotaped during rape to blackmail their families. Citizens are publicly beheaded, and their families are required to display the heads of the deceased as a warning to others who might question the politics of this regime.2

With such unspeakable atrocities a part of daily life, why didn’t more Iraqis complain publicly? Maybe because of Saddam’s decree in 2000 authorizing the government to amputate the tongues of citizens who criticized him or his government.

The report also documents Saddam’s use of chemical weapons (that’s right, “weapons of mass destruction”) against his own peo…