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Twenty-five years after publication of The Shadows of Power, James Perloff returns to the venue of political history, and takes you where the mass media won't. * Who benefited from the mysterious sinking of the USS Maine * Why did President Woodrow Wilson order the manifest of the torpedoed Lusitania hidden in the archives of the U.S. Treasury * After the official inquiry into the Pearl Harbor attack, why did Admiral Kimmel and General Short - the commanders at Pearl Harbor - want to be court-martialed * Why was the Soviet Union given control of North Korea after World War II, when the Soviets did nothing to win the war in the Pacific * What did Congressional Medal of Honor recipient James Stockdale reveal about Tonkin Gulf (the event used to justify intervention in Vietnam) * How did "Operation Rockingham" lead America into the Iraq war * Since its founding in 1921, what small organization has produced 21 Secretaries of Defense/War, 19 Treasury Secretaries, 18 Secretaries of State, and 16 CIA directors * How did Jimmy Carter go from a generally unknown figure to Presidential nominee in just seven months * Why has America had decades of destructive inflation (understated recently by the Consumer Price Index) , when there was zero NET inflation from the days of the Pilgrims until the early 20th century * Why did the Vietnam War last 14 years - and end in defeat - when it took us only 3 and years to win World War II * What did the head of the Ford Foundation tell Congressional investigator Norman Dodd that made him "nearly fall off the chair" * Is it possible that many kings and other monarchs of past centuries were not as evil as they've been portrayed * What American capitalists were given landing rights for their private jets in Moscow - at the height of the Cold War * What KGB defector predicted glasnost five years in advance - yet was ignored by the major media * Who is at the top of the pyramid on the back of the dollar bill * Why was the USS Liberty attacked in 1967, and why was there no Congressional investigation * The official explanation of 9-11 - where do we BEGIN to name the holes * Were the Beatles a set-up * Who financed ecumenism and the decline of Christian faith * What are world elitists saying about population control * What are courageous doctors revealing about vaccines that the major media won't report * Does weather control go beyond seeding clouds What is behind the recent spike in weather disasters * How did the Establishment trick conservatives into supporting its "free trade" agenda, destroying millions of U.