The Truth Agenda

This is a revised and updated edition of a book about unexplained mysteries and global cover-ups first published in 2009, which I reviewed at the time. The author is level-headed and well-informed, steering a middle path between the extremes of interpretation and relating his analysis to the available evidence. He covers a vast range of topics from pyramids to crop circles, UFOs, Marian apparitions, moon landings, false flag operations, Iraq and 9/11. Some of the areas he considers are more or less respectable in the mainstream, while others are considered fringe and wacky. The main contention is that things are never what they seem to be and that governments and conventional thinking manipulate and deceive the public, ridiculing alternative explanations as implausible conspiracy theories.

Each chapter contains a Truth Agenda summary at the end. The chapter on 9/11 is comprehensive and draws on the extensive analysis of David Ray Griffin, which I have reviewed in these pages. The third part discusses tools of control in a war against liberty of which the Patriot Act is a prime example, implemented following the atrocities of 9/11. The fourth part outlines a positive response to the advent of the New World Order in terms of the power of collective thought and positive action. I know of no other volume that sets out this vast field so clearly and in such a balanced way. Readers are left free to make their own minds in an informed fashion.