21 Books The Ruling Elite Doesn't Want You to Read

"Crossing the Rubicon" Michael Ruppert....long but very well documented

why isnt George Orwell's book "1984" on the list? is this a list of books of just consipiricaies or real known underground facts.

Not a huge fan of this list. One of the authors of the books mentioned is David Icke. Icke believes that the moon isn't real. He thinks it's a giant UFO that projects a fake reality (along the lines of The Matrix movies) upon mankind. His insanity ... I mean theory is called the "moon matrix".

I am also turned off of this list because Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine" and Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" were not on it.

I would add The Sorrows of Empire, Blowback, and Nemesis all by Chalmers Johnson. Also Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse both by Jared Diamond

thanks for posting!!! voted u up.

I read The Creature Fron Jeckyl Island and found very facinating the history on how the federal reserve came to be, however I dissagree with many of its conclusions such as the federal reserve is a conspiracy to turn the US into a communist country. Confessions of an Economic Hitman, also a great book, much of his book is available in a video documentary interviewing Mr Perkins. I'm still not conviced 9/11 was a government conspiracy. There are many great books out there on self sufficiency and permaculture. I do own The Self Suficient Life and How to Live It by Mr Seymore and is more of a survey of skills and general knowhow rather than comprehensive knowledge.

added to "Culture". +^d

What Really Happened.com has posted an excerpt today from Edward Bernay's "Propaganda," one of the books from your list.

"If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it... In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons ... who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind."

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country."

"We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized."

From your list: "Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction" is what woke me up to what 9/11 really was.
Absolutely essential read. It's a great intro to how modern day US foreign policy got to where it is today.

"New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency" - looks good too I'll be picking this one up.

Nick19... in order to make an intelligent and informed criticism of the listed materials one needs to READ them first. Until then your opinion is empty and meaningless.

A few books I would have guessed to make this list:

Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism - Naomi Klein
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance - Noam Chomsky
Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order - Noam Chomsky
Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became People - How You Can Fight Back - Thom Hartmann
Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum - Michael T. Klare

This is an article full of exaggerations and sensationalism. First off, we have this undefined elite that doesn't want you to read certain material. Ok, when we get into readings about the NWO, thats were I'll lose you because one elite controlling the entire World economy is impossible since they don't have enough money altogether to have any sort of large impact on World economics. More conspiracy theory material as usual and this time involving the CIA...pass. More NWO material. Ok, conspiracy theory material. This shouldn't be in the top ten, voting down.

My own suggested reading list includes:

"THE PLOT TO SEIZE THE WHITE HOUSE - How Corporations Sought to Install the First American Dictator" by Jules Archer
"Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile" by Paul Manning
"You Can't Print That! the Truth Behind the News 1918 to 1928" by George Seldes
"Facts and Fascism" by George Seldes
"1000 Americans: The Real Rulers of the U.S.A." by George Seldes
"Murder By Injection: The Story Of The Medical Conspiracy Against America" by Eustace Mullins
"Rape Of Justice America's Tribunals Exposed" by Eustace Mullins
"Secrets Of The Federal Reserve" by Eustace Mullins
"The World Order Our Secret Ruler" by Eustace Mullins
"Education for Slavery" by Eustace Mullins
"Wall Street And The Rise Of Hitler" by Antony C. Sutton
"The War On Gold" by Antony C. Sutton
"Trilaterals Over Washington" by Antony C. Sutton
"Energy: The Created Crisis" by Antony C. Sutton
"The Best Enemy Money Can Buy" by Antony C. Sutton
"America’s Secret Establishment" by Antony C. Sutton
"Unholy trinity" by Mark Aarons, John Loftus
"The Belarus secret" by John Loftus, Nathan Miller
"America's Nazi Secret: An Insider's History" by John Loftus
"The Underground History of American Education" by John Taylor Gatto
"Dumbing Us Down - The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling" by John Taylor Gatto
"Deliberate Dumbing Down of America" by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt
"The Death and Life of the Great American School System" by Diane Ravitch

Thanks for the post, good info for all.

I read 3 books in 2 days , sometimes . Thank you for the list : )

Thanks for the list. I have so many books waiting on my 'to read' list and so little time to read them. I dare not add another book to my collection until I have made a dent in those that I do own. I have bookmarked the page because I never know when one will move up on the priority list. Right now, I am really wanting to sink my teeth into a book that was recommended by one of the members here at Current. It is called Fundamentalist World and it was suggested by Vforvendetta. It's rght on top of the pile on my nightstand and it keeps beckonning me because I sincerely believe that fundamentalism is a major factor in the problems we face today and is. why it is so hard to course correct. The 'I am right no matter what and you are not' crowd on both sides of the politcal spectrum and in the religious sphere, are keeping us from progressing. The ability for the charlatans in politics to invoke the language and tools, of the evangelicals (who BTW have had centuries of practice) to amass scores of followers who are ready to give the benefit of the doubt and loyally excuse any slight to them, despite facts and evidence to the contrary, so willingly, is just driving us back to the dark ages.

"But nobody reads. Don't believe people read in this country. There will be a few professors who will read the record ... the public will read very little". - Allen Dulles after it was noted that the final 1964 report of the Warren Commission on the assassination of JFK contained dramatic inconsistencies.