There are two ways of looking at the world:You can take the mass media at face value and believe the world oscillates between the dumb-show of “left wing” and “right wing.” Or you can begin to question this national hypnosis.The groundbreaking and now out-of-print first edition of Secret and Suppressed influenced many in the conspiratorial ’90s, including Chris Carter and his X-Files movie and television series.Secret and Suppressed II, brought out in time for the presidential election, presents a new set of revelations, rants, visions, and nightmares that illuminate the paranoid and nightmarish post-9/11 planet. Contributions include new material from highly regarded writers Jim Hougan (Spooks), Jim Marrs (Rule by Secrecy), and Richard Sauder (Underground Bases and Tunnels). This updated edition also features dozens of investigations assembled into four sections: “Mentide,” “Cults and Casualties,” “The Disinformational Plague,” and “The Elite Controllers.”Editor Adam Parfrey wrote Cult Rapture, co-wrote (with Maja D’Aoust) The Secret Source, and edited Apocalypse Culture and It’s a Man’s World.Editor Kenn Thomas co-wrote (with Jim Keith) The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro and Parapolitics: Conspiracy in Contemporary America.