Between the Lies : Rise of the Media-Military-Industrial Complex

by Winer Stan

Since WWII, the West has moved from a society of nations proudly ordered around the notion of a ‘finest hour’ to a climate today of widespread cynicism and social disengagement. ‘Between the Lies’ explains this phenomenon by linking history to current events in an explicit manner. It exposes the hidden dynamics that exist in wartime between secrecy, governance, public opinion and the media, and the replication in ‘peacetime’ of wartime methods of information management.

The author argues that unless there is a critical reassessment of what the West did actually achieve during WWII and the Cold War, democracy faces deepening moral and political decline. Compelling evidence is provided of the media’s key role in the development of the modern military-industrial complex and its influence on public conceptions of ‘the national interest’.