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By William E. Douglas, Jr., who is author of "The Amateur Parent -- A Book on Life, Death, War & Peace, and Everything Else in the Universe." Bill has been a guest columnist for the Kansas City Star, The Business Journal, and other media worldwide. His past essays include, "Exposing the 9/11 Conspiracy Wingnuts," "The Explosion of the 9-11 Truth Movement -- US Media's Dirty Little Secret," "Good Night, and Good Luck - WMD, NIST, Popular Mechanics, 9/11 and Media Crimes" and also "Why the Jewish Community Should Demand 9/11 Truth."
(34 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 20, 2008 BREAKING 9/11 NEWS: FBI Says Barbara Olsen Did Not Call Ted Olsen. Bush Solicitor General LIED !!
BREAKING 9/11 NEWS: FBI Says Barbara Olsen Did Not Call Ted Olsen. Bush Solicitor General LIED !!
Nationally syndicated talk show host Charles Goyette uncovered blockbuster information in his drive-time interview with author David Ray Griffin.
FBI says Barbara Olsen NEVER called from the plane on 9/11!!
(28 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 10, 2008 What Do a Renowned 9/11 Physicist and a N.Y. Times Best Selling Novelist Have in Common? Harassment by Dis-Information?
What Do a Renowned 9/11 Physicist and a N.Y. Times Best Selling Novelist Have in Common? Harassment by Dis-Information Agents, Perhaps?
In the last 48 hours, N.Y. Times best selling novelist, Steve Alten, author of, "The Shell Game," was recently shocked and dumbfounded that he'd become the victim of harassment, when someone not only put a map of his home and his personal private phone number and home address up, but also
(20 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 6, 2008 9/11 TRUTH Issues EXPLODE onto CBS National Radio Yesterday !!
9/11 Truth (& False Flag Terror) FINALLY on CBS NATIONAL Radio - Jim Bohannan Show !! STUNNING National CBS Radio Interview!
Bohannan is a right wing pro-military radio voice, who's audience has probably NEVER been exposed to 9/11 truth issues. "The Shell Game" author, Steve Alten, came on after an Oil Executive's interview, at about 39:50 in the 1.5 hour show. All hell breaks loose at about 54:56 when 9/11 truth...
SHARE Thursday, October 16, 2008 A Prophetic Novel Bodes Warning About the Election
With the last Presidential debate over and the election less than three weeks away, Barack Obama's substantial lead in the latest polls appears to spell an end to eight years of neoconservative rule. Don't be too sure. A new book outlines this exact same scenario -- with a frightening conclusion.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, March 17, 2008 Stephen King's Son, Takes a Shot at 9/11 Truth Author, While New Film Director Embraces His Work!
On the same weekend, "The Shell Game" author, Steve Alten is both disputed and congratulated for exposing 9/11 truth issues.
Famed horror author Stephen King's son, Joe Hill, went after Alten at a book fair in Florida this weekend, when Alten aired facts that point to 9/11 as an inside job.
In the same weekend, today, the Director of the new film "The Reflecting Pool," reached out to congratulate Alten for his courage.
(8 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 5, 2008 Are Corporate Media Attacks on French Actress, Marion Cotillard, for 9/11 Comments, a Result of 9/11 Commissioner's Call
Are Corporate Media Attacks on French Actress, Marion Cotillard, for 9/11 Comments, a Result of 9/11 Commissioner's Call for new 9/11 Investigation?
This week, the corporate media launched into a bizarre full front orchestrated attack on French, Oscar winning actress, Marion Cotillard, for her doubts about the official story of 9/11. What makes it bizarre is that she made them over 1 year ago. So, why drudge them up now?
(54 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 13, 2008 NY Sun Reports on U.N. Official's Call for Study of U.S. Govt. Role in 9/11 Attacks
NY Sun Reports on U.N. Official's Call for Study of U.S. Govt. Role in 9/11 Attacks
The ability of otherwise rational people to continue to bury their heads in the sand when it comes to the glaring problems with the U.S. government's official story of the attacks of 9/11 . . . appears to be nearing a rapidly escalating end.
(107 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 19, 2007 Confessions of a Defecting Democrat -- Why Ron Paul is the Perfect Candidate, and How Left Media Will be USED to Attack
SWIFTBOATING! I'm a liberal, but I can see beyond the corporate media false left/right creation.
The "liberal" talking points are already being strategically placed by so called "left" media to tear progressive voters away from the most progressive candidate in our lifetimes, at least adult lifetimes.
Ron Paul threatens the foundations of the American military empire, and corrupt corporate economics that keep us all down
(12 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 30, 2008 The 9/11 Truth "LIHOP vs. MIHOP" is "BS that Must STOP!"
In a brilliant blog article of , January 28th, a blogger known as Arabesque, begins his insightful article with N.Y. Times best selling novelist, Steve Alten's interview with Michael Woolsey on Visibility911 Radio. Regarding the ways the 9/11 truth movement is kept ineffective and splintered: In an interview with Michael Wolsey, Shell Game author Steve Alten supplied a relevant and important criticism of the 9/11 truth . . .
(21 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 20, 2008 Japanese Senator for 9/11 Truth Calls for Movement to Step Beyond Internet – Steve Alten Answers the Call
Japanese Senator for 9/11 Truth Calls for Movement to Step Beyond Internet – Steve Alten Answers the Call
Speaking at the 911 Truth Conference in Australia last week, Japanese Senator, Fujita, was adamant that, in order to create the public pressure to make that happen, now it is time for the 9/11 truth movement to move beyond the internet circles, and into the main public arena
(18 comments) SHARE Friday, February 15, 2008 Europe for 9/11 Truth Evening at the European Parliament !
And now the European Parliament is holding a 9/11 truth presentation . . . but US corporate media continues to sit on all of this.
How long can their dam hold?
What can we do about this censorship around 9/11 ?
(34 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 27, 2008 "The Shell Game" is Rattling Some Powerful Nerves!
"The Shell Game" is Rattling Some Powerful Nerves!
In the 1960s government agencies developed a program called "COINTELPRO," which was designed to divide and destroy anti-war and civil rights movements through infiltration, harassment, and various dirty tricks. This is public record.
(25 comments) SHARE Monday, February 4, 2008 How Disinfo Agents Infiltrate 9/11 Truth. How You Can Tell You are Being Bamboozled.
How Disinfo Agents Infiltrate 9/11 Truth. How You Can Tell You are Being Bamboozled.
". . . they [the majority of Americans] shall come to realize what I now realize... that the 9/11 Truth Movement are the real patriots in 21st century America!"
-- Steve Alten, New York Times Best Selling Novelist (author of "The Shell Game")
COINTELPRO was an FBI program designed to infiltrate the anti-war movement ...
(19 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 21, 2008 CBC: Canadians greet Karl Rove with charges of 9/11 being an inside job! No US media coverage?
CBC: Canadians greet Karl Rove with charges of 9/11 being an inside job! No US media coverage?
When a former President's aid is greeted in a friendly nation by protesters claiming he had a role in the most horrific attack on the United States in modern history, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation covers it . . . wouldn't that be a newsworthy item for US media?
(24 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 8, 2008 9/11 Truth Cynics Step Aside!! ANY DOUBTS About "The Shell Game" Are Dashed!!
N.Y. Times best selling author, unleashes a new force of 9/11 truth information spreaders, with an innovative campaign to simultaneously educate his action fiction fan base on 9/11 truth issues, and encourage them to become truth spreaders.
The 9/11 truth cynics who have dismissed the value of "The Shell Game," will find it difficult to argue with the fact, that this "The Shell Game" website is a bonified 9/11 truth site !!
(7 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 7, 2008 Willie Nelson's 9/11 Conspiracy Charge EXPOSE MEDIA COVER UP & the Tim Russert Factor
Willie Nelson's 9/11 Conspiracy Charge EXPOSE MEDIA COVER UP & the Tim Russert Factor
This corporate media "ommission" reminds of an ongoing campaign of a corporate media cover up of 9/11, and an EXPLOSIVE new novel, "The Shell Game," that radio host Jack Blood believes may destroy that media blockade of 9/11 truth
(14 comments) SHARE Monday, January 21, 2008 Bhutto's Assassination! There is NO "Al Qaeda"! Osama is our "1984's Goldstein"! Bhutto's Death, and "The Shell Game"
Bhutto's Assassination! There is NO "Al Qaeda"! Osama is our "1984's Goldstein"! Bhutto's Death, and "The Shell Game" -- 2007's "1984"
When I was young, I saw what I thought was a silly bumper sticker, that now I realize was perhaps the most prophetic statement I'd ever read. The bumper sticker simply said, "Everything you know is WRONG!"
"Al Qaeda" is not really a terrorist group..."
-- UK Foriegn Secretary, Cook
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, April 4, 2008 JOIN the WEEK of TRUTH: April 16th – 22nd; A Historic National 9/11 Truth Effort to Break the Media Blockade!
JOIN the WEEK of TRUTH: April 16th – 22nd; A Historic National 9/11 Truth Effort to Break the Media Blockade!
Last Monday, March 31st, great American heroes, who have put everything on the line to protect their nation's democracy, assembled. It was meaningful this occurred the same month of HBO's release of John Adams. The result: April 16-22nd will be a WEEK of TRUTH !! You can get involved at www.WeekofTruth.org
(11 comments) SHARE Monday, December 31, 2007 Why Would REAL 9/11 Truth Activists Advocate a Work of FICTION?
Why Would REAL 9/11 Truth Activists Advocate a Work of FICTION?
Many are wondering why real activists, researchers and a NIST report whistleblower are advocating vast readership of an action fiction novel.
To understand it, one must look back at history, both old and new.
A new pulse pounding action novel is catching the attention of some very serious people.
(9 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 7, 2008 9/11 Truth Telling Novel, "The Shell Game" HITS N.Y. TIMES BEST SELLER LIST!!
9/11 Truth Telling Novel, "The Shell Game" HITS N.Y. TIMES BEST SELLER LIST!!
On February 6th, "The Shell Game," an explosive 9/11 truth telling edu-tainment novel rose to #31 on the New York Times Best Seller List! What is amazing about this is that "The Shell Game" just barely hit the front placement in major book stores, airports, etc. across the nation on February 1st. Meaning that this book hit the big time before it
(45 comments) SHARE Friday, January 25, 2008 9/11 Truth is Not a PRIVATE CLUB . . . Or Is It?
9/11 Truth is Not a PRIVATE CLUB . . . Or Is It?
I was reading a 9/11 truth blog for an organization up north, and saw something that kind of shocked me. The poster was talking about the new 9/11 truth telling novel, "The Shell Game" from NY Times best selling author, Steve Alten, and whether we should trust him "because he's new."
Hit me in the head with a sledgehammer if I'm wrong . . . but weren't we all out in the s
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 2, 2008 The Season of Our Discontent is a GATHERING STORM! The YouTube Revolution Will be Televised !!
". . . they [the majority of Americans] shall come to realize what I now realize... that the 9/11 Truth Movement are the real patriots in 21st century America!"
-- Steve Alten, New York Times Best Selling Novelist (author of "The Shell Game")
There is a visceral anger building as Americans watch in horror as their intelligence is insulted by the sham called mainstream media...
(20 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 3, 2008 "The Shell Game," from NY Times Best Selling Author - Sparks 9/11 Truth Controversy, Lights Fire in Publishing Industry!
A fire has been lighted in the publishing industry. Publishers may learn that they can indeed not only survive publishing 9/11 truth novels . . . but may find them very profitable.
"The Shell Game" may open the flood gates for a whole new industry of truth telling fiction, that can open the public mind, and counter the "24" TV type propaganda in a powerful way.
(10 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 13, 2008 Naivete is Killing the 9/11 Truth Movement's Hope for Media Breakthrough !
Naivete is Killing the 9/11 Truth Movement's Hope for Media Breakthrough !
Naivete among those newer to 9/11 truth is crushing the life from the lungs of hope for our movement breaking through the media blockade.
(9 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 19, 2006 Why "NOT" to Fight for 9/11 Truth
I decided to make a list of all the reasons I've heard for the "left" or "peace & justice" communities to avoid looking at the hard facts regarding 9/11.
(39 comments) SHARE Friday, January 18, 2008 Corporate Media Silent on Japanese, European, and Mass US 9/11 Truth Demands
In the last month, Denmark's most popular television talk show had on a Danish 9/11 truth organizer to talk about the 9/11 attacks, and the fact that evidence points strongly to an inside job, by elements within the US government.
This week a Japanese legislator, on national television, grilled the Japanese Prime Minister about why Japan has not investigated the 9/11/2001 attacks that killed a number of Japanese...US MEDIA?
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 17, 2008 "Bond Girl" Comes Out for 9/11 Truth – WEEK OF TRUTH CAMPAIGN – April 16 to 22nd
"Bond Girl" Comes Out for 9/11 Truth – WEEK OF TRUTH CAMPAIGN – April 16 to 22nd
Lana Wood, actress/activist, recently not only came public on 9/11 truth, but helped create a very creative youtube video that can reach many. Spread it widely, let's get it up on the youtube rankings.
(7 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 10, 2008 PROJECT CENSORED Director Urging Vast Readership of "THE SHELL GAME"!!
PROJECT CENSORED Director Urging Vast Readership of "THE SHELL GAME"!!
The Director of the famed Project Censored, which has been instrumental in pointing out each year all the major news stories that corporate media mysteriously ignores, just advocated wide readership of "The Shell Game."
(11 comments) SHARE Monday, December 24, 2007 Why a Liberal Progressive Can AND SHOULD Support Ron Paul
Ron Paul is the ONLY candidate, except for the Green Party Candidate, Cynthia McKinney, who will dis-assemble the US corporate militarist empire.
If you peel back the layers of what is making life the most miserable for Americans and the world, you find one over arching issue . . . "the military industrial complex." The decline of the US standard of living, the collapse of the US dollar, and the growing hatred of America .
(22 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 1, 2008 Renowned Physicist Joins 9/11 Coalition Advocating, the new novel, "The Shell Game" from best selling NY Times author
Renowned Physicist Joins 9/11 Coalition Advocating, the new novel, "The Shell Game" from best selling NY Times author.
Professor Steven Jones, then of Brigham Young University, became a force for truth when he studied the collapse of the World Trade Center's on 9/11
He found that the official story of 9/11, did not agree with the laws of physics. His research has found controlled demolition substances in WTC debris.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, February 1, 2008 Green Party Presidential Candidate a 9/11 Truth Hero !!
If you were told by corporate media that [then] Congresswoman McKinney was defeated by another Democratic Congressperson, because she had a run in with a guard at the Capitol, your head must still be spinning because of the multiple lies and distortions corporate media has hit you with.
Let's untangle the lies.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 7, 2008 A REVOLUTION! Truth is Permeating the American Mass Mind Through the Arts !!
A REVOLUTION! Truth is Permeating the American Mass Mind Through the Arts !!
A revolution began occurring through the arts, that may be a barometer indicating that 9/11 truth is about to become, and in fact may as we speak, be already becoming a mainstream known reality. Art is a powerful indicator of where a society stands.
(26 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 2, 2008 New York Times best selling author of "The Shell Game" Issues New Years Day Appeal to 9/11 Truth & Progressive Activists
On New Years Day, 2008, New York Times best selling novelist, Steve Alten, gave me an OpEd addressed for me to deliver to the 9/11 truth and progressive activists of America.
His newest novel, due to release on 1/22/2008, has all the portent of Orwell's "1984." "The Shell Game" is a cautionary tale, that has the potential of changing history for the better. It's in all our best interests to read what Steve Alten has to say
(40 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 22, 2008 "AVOIDING THE NEXT 9/11" – on MLK Day Loose Change Producers w/ "The Shell Game" N.Y. Times Best Selling Author, Intervi
"AVOIDING THE NEXT 9/11" – on MLK Day Loose Change Producers w/ "The Shell Game" N.Y. Times Best Selling Author, Interviewed on "Louder Than Words" Radio Program.
This week, on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, both Jason Bermas and Dylan Avery, co-producers of the famed globally viewed, "Loose Change – Final Cut" documentary, interviewed the N.Y. Times best selling author of the EXPLOSIVE edu-tainment historical fiction novel.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 26, 2006 Why the Jewish Community Should Demand 9/11 Truth
hen the truth comes out about the attacks of 9/11/2001, we will find that Jewish people, and Moslem people, both here in America and worldwide will have been the most wronged by the false flag operation that the attacks of 9/11/2001 appeared to be.
Recently, I watched a new documentary entitled, "Protocols of Zion," on CINEMAX cable
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 19, 2008 "Week of Truth" Nat'l Action Breaks the Media Blockade
"Week of Truth" Nat'l Action BREAKS the MEDIA BLOCKADE on 9/11 TRUTH. Week of Truth Hit Conservative Major National Radio Today!!
The first nationally coordinated mass coalition effort by researchers, activists, investigators, pushing for a real investigation into the disturbing and blatant deceptions of the official 9/11 story, has made good on its promise to truth activists, and broken 911 truths into mainstream media ...
(52 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 15, 2008 Is 9/11 Truth "Fundamentalism" Holding Back 9/11 Truth? Are We Constipated?
Is 9/11 Truth "Fundamentalism" Holding Back 9/11 Truth? Are We Constipated?
"Where there is no vision, the people perish."
-- Proverbs, 29:18
Then I turned to the 9/11 truth movement leaders and asked them to join an ad hoc coalition to help get this novel the most exposure and readership possible, because if we could drive it to #1 the corporate media would have to cover 9/11 truth issues. The response was positive
(8 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 16, 2006 "Good Night, and Good Luck" -- WMD, NIST, Popular Mechanics, 9/11 and Media Crimes
US and world media must become a part of the international investigation on the events of 9/11 that is now building. Ending national and global media monopolies must be the end result of the coming 9/11 investigations. The suppression of the facts regarding 9/11 is shameful, and will be a historic disgrace for US and world media.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 20, 2008 Air America Radio to Hold Historic 9/11 Truth National Debate Series
The Week of Truth Campaign's 1st phase launch was profoundly successful in breaking the media silence on the many disturbing problems with the official story of 9/11 propagated by (Bush confidant, Phillip Zelikow, dominated) 911 Commission hearings, the corporate media, and of course nearly everyone in the government.
Organizers are remind all there is still time to help make history, and heal our nation . . .
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 5, 2008 The Myth of Glorious War Exposed – Video of US Troops Murdering a Puppy !
The Myth of Glorious War Exposed – Video of US Troops Murdering a Puppy !
America's willful unconsciousness, about the rational for war, is torturing our troops.
View a Sad Video of US Soldiers in Iraq Murdering an "Innocent Puppy"
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 24, 2008 What Do a "New Novel," The Simpsons, & Sibel Edmonds Have To Do With One Another??
What Do a New "Novel," The Simpsons, & Sibel Edmonds Have To Do With One Another??
The UK Guardian ran an opinion this week entitled, "US journalists ignore Sunday Times scoop on FBI nuclear scandal," on January 22, 2008.
It showed that only a Simpson Cartoon Character's voice, had the journalistic integrity to do what the US media was too afraid to do.
"The Shell Game" a new novel by a NY Times best selling author...
SHARE Saturday, October 21, 2006 SECURITY ALERT: Iran and North Korea are DEMOCRATS !!
"This week" Whitehouse spokesman Tony Snow, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and the other Republican mouthpieces informed us the because the war in Iraq is intensifying, and because North Korea has tested a nuclear weapon . . . they are secretly supporting the Democratic aspirations to gain control of Congress.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 6, 2007 A New York Times Best Selling Author Touches the LIVEWIRE "9/11 Truth"
Peace, Justice, Truth activists, and all who love peace, truth and justice are being offered a golden opportunity to advance their cause in the mass public's mind.
A New York Times best selling author's new novel strikes at the very heart of the emerging militaristic direction Bush et al have taken our nation in.
Everyone who cares about America should do everything they can to make sure everyone reads this book!
(9 comments) SHARE Monday, February 18, 2008 "Why I strongly support "The Shell Game"!"
"Why I strongly support "The Shell Game"!"
Why Steve Alten's "The Shell Game" is prophetic per C-SPAN - AND MUST BE PROMOTED!!
Mainstream media is ignoring a coming BUSH COUP!! Why ??
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 30, 2008 9/11 Truth Was NEVER About Vindictiveness
Those who simply don't want the truth about 9/11, often paint the truth movement as a vindictive crusade. Nothing could be further from the truth.
So what is it about? TRUTH.
A book that many have heard about that holds some great truths in it, said that "the truth shall set you free."
How can it set us free?
On 9/11 Americans were put under a spell . . .
SHARE Saturday, January 12, 2008 Zen Organizing – Steven Colbert – and Surfing Our Way Back to American Democracy!!
Zen Organizing – Steven Colbert – and Surfing Our Way Back to American Democracy!!
So many innovative activist campaigns discussed here are GREAT ideas. There are so many innovative and genius projects coming from peace and justice, environmental, human/civil rights, and 9/11 truth activists. BUT, IF WE COULD ADD A FEW MILLION PEOPLE TO OUR NUMBERS . . . all these actions would take on a whole new import.
HOW?
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, August 7, 2006 9/11: Healing from Abuse
Emotional and psychic healing from 9/11 is critical to human progress.
(13 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 12, 2008 How to Out 9/11 Truth -- The Key to 9/11 Truth is Forgiveness – Jesus Had a POINT!!
Jesus gave the 9/11 truth movement a way to get the whole truth about 9/11 out as quickly as possible, before another false flag operation plunges us into a dictatorship.
The bible thumpers put the truths that Jesus extolled up on a pedestal, telling all of us we are too sinful and evil to do anything but grovel and worship idols, which Jesus himself warned against doing.
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 23, 2008 Hillary Clinton Hits a Home Run in Texas Debate on Wounded Iraq War Soldier's Suffering
Hillary Clinton Hits a Home Run in Texas Debate on Wounded Iraq War Soldier's Suffering
Clinton's response to the last question about being tested, was her home run that gave her a standing ovation at the end of tonight's debate.
That soldier wouldn't have his disfigured face. For her to use him in a calculated effort to hit a home run by pulling at our heartstrings, is beneath contempt.