media and think-tank researcher

Unravelling the Right, Reframing the Left

Donald Gutstein

Peace

The United States: A Leader in World Peace?

16 Aug '07

The United States: one of the most peaceful nations in the world, as the Fraser Institute claims, or one of the least peaceful, according to a recently released global peace study? It depends what’s meant by “peace”. The Fraser Institute ranks the U.S. as the third most economically free country in the world. And the [...]

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Not a Conspiracy Theory: How Business Propaganda Hijacks Democracy

“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.”