BANNED BOOKS on the WEB

Book burning was a feature of the Middle Ages. It was adopted by the Ruling Powers when it was seen that the ordinary citizen was getting access to inconvenient knowledge. Book "banning" is a more subtle process, a product of the mass communications age, under which that same degree of inconvenient knowledge can be filtered out from the digest of news and views through which the public is ostensibly being informed. "All the news that's fit to print" said the New York Times...
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A Classic...

THE MONEY BOMB

This book scared the control-freaks of its day because it expanded on the work of the late Edward Holloway of The Economic Research Council in illustrating the advantages to the nation of Government-created money. Seen as a challenge to the accepted financial protocol, it was accordingly banned from display in retail book outlets throughout the United Kingdom. This is the one that set them talking about the iniquities of the National Debt. Thanks to Ossian Publishers and the Worldwide Web, you can still read it now. As relevant today as it was when it was written.