Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
five books about propaganda by governments, private interests and the PR industry. They
include one book about how industry manipulates science (Trust Us, We're Experts), one
about the history and current scope of the public relations industry (Toxic Sludge is Good
for You), and one about mad cow disease (Mad Cow USA), which predicted the surfacing
of the disease within the United States.
In July 2003 Stauber and Sheldon Rampton wrote Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses
of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq, which argued that the Bush administration
deceived the American public into supporting the war. In 2004, the two co-authored
Banana Republicans, which argued that the Republican Party is turning the U.S. into a
one-party state. The book argues that the far-right and its functionaries in the media,
lobbying establishment and electoral system are undermining dissent and squelching
pluralistic politics in the United States. In 2006 the two wrote The Best War Ever: Lies,
Damned Lies, and the Mess in Iraq, which builds upon the arguments they posited in
Weapons of Mass Deception.
Stauber is the founder and executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy,
which sponsors PR Watch and SourceWatch. Since the 1960s, he has worked with public
interest, consumer, family farm, environmental and community organizations at the local,
state and national level. He edits and writes for the Center's quarterly newsmagazine, PR
Watch. He is also a member of the Liberty Tree Board of Advisers.
Stauber grew up in a conservative Republican household in Marshfield, Wisconsin, but
the war in Vietnam turned him into an anti-war and environmental activist while still in
high school.
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported that, ironically, when Stauber was promoting
his book on PR, it was delivered to the media with a slick press kit, and a prewritten list
of questions for reporters to ask when interviewing the authors
Naomi Klein
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Disambiguation: For the author of The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young
Patriot, see Naomi Wolf
Naomi Klein (b. 1970) is a Canadian journalist, author and activist well known for her
political analyses of corporate globalization.
Klein was born in Montreal, Quebec. Her family has a history of activism, as does that of
her husband, Avi Lewis. Her grandfather was fired for labor organizing at Disney in the
United States. Her father Michael, a physician, was a Vietnam War resister and became a
member of Physicians for Social Responsibility. Her film-maker mother, Bonnie Sherr
Klein, won fame with her anti-pornography film, Not a Love Story.[1][2] Her brother Seth
is director of the British Columbia office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Her in-laws are Michele Landsberg and Stephen Lewis, son of David Lewis. An aunt is
married to Daniel Libeskind, the architect.
Klein's writing career started early with contributions to The Varsity, a University of
Toronto student newspaper, where she served as editor-in-chief. She credits her wake-up
privatization of Iraq's economy under the Coalition Provisional Authority are expanded
from Klein's original Harper's Weekly essay Baghdad: Year Zero.
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