Written by Bob Fitrakis
Edited by Brian Lindamood
Published by: Columbus Alive/Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism 246 pages; $15.00

Buy this book at: Free Press Online Store

Great investigative journalists are few and far between these days, but Bob Fitrakis is definitely one of them.

For years in both the Columbus Free Press and Columbus Alive, Fitrakis has been digging up the dirt on a wide range of corporate criminals, death penalty abusers and right-wing fanatics.

This superb compilation of some of Bob's best stuff, written over the years for Columbus Alive, is a welcome addition to the annals of muckraking. In many ways, it serves as a primer on the art of exposing hidden truths, and could serve as a good basic text for high school and college students not yet brain deadened by television or George W. Bush.

The book comes in bite-sized pieces derived from Bob's hard-hitting columns. Starting with a murky global electronic surveillance system known as Echelon

Nancy, Of ocurse, an excellent article by Wasserman. Thanks for sending it. However, W. made THE mistake that has been the curse of humankind since Day One. He misquotes Jesus with the statement, "You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." Jesus did not say that. I know that quotation is incised in stone at the Tower of the University of Texas, in marble plaques in different languages in the entry hall of the library of the former New York University Heights campus, etc. etc.

What Jesus said was said (or is reported to have said) "IF you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples; and you will know the truth, and teh truth will make you free." (John 8:310

In other words truth is a condition subsequent of discipleship. While our reptilian brains want to make truth an absolute value, Jesus suggested that turth only comes as a consequence of discipleship. Discipleship is very fluid, changing, adaptive to situations, and situational. Discipleship can only be defined by continuous action and adjustment to changing circumstances.

My congratulations! I am a voracious reader, and have been for several decades, and truly, in all those years, I have never read an article this awesomely, this breathtakingly idiotic; and trust me, I have read Noam Chomsky and would not have believed anyone on the planet, not even Gore Vidal, could so seamlessly weave falsehood after falsehood so wondrously into an article that anyone who lived in reality could allow to be published in their paper. But now I see that you ARE the editor, so you snuck in a masterpiece! I hope you consider re-titling your paper. A free press is vital in any open society, so that citizens can inform themselves of the truth; real freedom is what we find when we cease to be in the thrall of delusional worldviews; I hope you can break away from yours.

Sincerely
Dick Kane

Hi, I just want to say THREE CHEERS!!!! WE have to believe truth will set us free... and it's about time someone besides Michael Moore took umbrage with the BS of polls suggesting this imbecile, cold blooded KILLER is a popular leader... like you nailed it, if the press wasn't so into a sycophant role of laying Hosannas as this antiChrist's (?) feet, maybe we'd see an uproar... it's a mixture of "give 'em cake" mixed with "a sucker is born every minute," with a final dose of "short attention span theater" thrown in... I hear 60's songs in my head now, as if resurrecting the all but forgotten dreams, that our generation, like Hamlet, not forget our almost blunted purpose... to maintain LIGHT in the world as these dark lords rise to ascendancy on might alone... knowing JUSTICE slows down the other guy, the ones who "give a damn about their fellow man...." If Gore starts the liberal radio network, 60's music to re-rouse our ideals would be a good start. After all, seems to me all the hate in rap and all the obscene boom box pounding is either Hiroshima's revenge or some kind of atavistic drum pounding

FUCK wasserman, he's a stupid son-of-a-bitch.....and a goddamn lying socialist motherfucker.