As announced earlier, in gratitude for all your support, I’m giving away copies of my book Red White & Blind this week.

Ebook

Unlimited free copies (regular price $9.99) available here now >

Paperback

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The September 11 Giveaway >

E-book

Starting Wednesday and ending on Friday, you will be able to visit this blog or www.RedWhiteAndBlind.com and obtain for yourself—or for a friend—a free copy of the kindle version of the book.

Paperback

In addition, I’m giving away 9 paperback copies of the book this week on Goodreads. You can visit the giveaway page any time this week to add your name and enter the drawing.

Feel free to do both.

One of my very first political publications seeking the truth behind contrived media narratives was an early issue of my defunct newsletter Garlic & Grass in which I pulled together several journalist’s writings seeking to understand what had actually happened on September 11, 2001. That issue led to many more investigations, and, eventually, to the journalism work I did for Huffington Post and to RW&B itself. Through that work I learned that both parties are adept at controlling and manipulating the media—and that the media is adept at controlling and manipulating us. Therefore, serious investigations into topics such as Jeffrey Epstein, the origins of Covid, and social media censorship must be nonpartisan.

If you’ve been meaning to read the book, or if you’ve been hoping to share it with a friend or family member, this week you can do it without money as an obstacle.

Enjoy, and my sincere thanks for joining me on this quest for the truth behind the endless disinformation. I believe that it is only by uncovering the truth that we can properly diagnose and cure the ills in modern American society.

To rectify the situation, if you’re waiting to listen to RW&B on your phone or other app, I’ve uploaded the book for now to the completely independent site Awesound, which enables you to listen to the audiobook on any platform you choose.

Much like the brave and brilliant independent media news sources I highlight in the Red White & Blind, Awesound cuts out the middlemen and the hidden algorithms. The site enables authors to simply sell audiobooks to interested readers, and it’s a great way to enjoy audiobooks on your phone, laptop, or car receiver.

As a token of my appreciation to my substack readers, and to encourage use of this independent channel, I’ve marked the audiobook on Awesound down from $23.95 to $15. Nice!

Get it here, on or before September 30:

One other nice thing about Awesound, is that can display notes from the author on every chapter. So instead of just seeing the chapter title, you see a little “what’s inside” of each chapter to better jump around to find segments of the book.

The other platforms will feature this promotional price until September 30 too—as soon as they make it available, which should be any day now.

If you’ve already purchased it at Audible and would prefer to listen with Awesound and get the promotional price, just let me know and I’ll get you a redemption code.

Best wishes, and happy listening!

Just after the Trump-Kamala debate, just in time to help you decipher the endless streams of disinformation coming from the candidates, just as the parties’ surrogates and the Red News and Blue News analysts tell you what to think, I am proud to present the completion of this labor of love.

Written and read by yours truly, in the hopes of spreading truth, clarity, compassion, and knowledge, this is an audiobook that unpacks corporate media lies and points out a path to a deeper understanding of our world.

Let me read to you, at your own preferred pace and time:

» Red White & Blind (the audiobook at Audible) «

» Red White & Blind (the audiobook at Awesound) «

Awesound.com is an alternative audiobook distributor that enables you to purchase the book outright and listen to it on any platform you like. I’m running a promo there currently.

From Bernie to Biden, from Covid to Epstein, from wars to elections, I’ve investigated dozens of recent and historical events in order to illustrate the ways we are deceived. It’s an insidious minefield out there, but I never leave you wallowing in despair over the mountains of disinformation that confront us. The book offers insights and tips from myself and others on how to develop the savvy to discern the truth behind each story—what I call media consciousness. We are in the early phases of a great unveiling, an internet-birthed era that I believe is a New Enlightenment in which we are all gradually awakening to the actual truth about many, many things.

There are forces who seek to keep us in the dark, and they are ramping up the deception, propaganda, and censorship in the daily news, particularly as this election approaches. Learning to see clearly—or as clearly as we can—is crucial.

Click here to support my work and to listen to the audiobook today:

» Red White & Blind (the audiobook) «

If you do, you’ll also learn about media consciousness, the New Enlightenment, and much more:

• How the Father of Propaganda convinced Americans to love bananas, smoking, World War I, and the color green.
• Why the notion of “objective, professional journalism” was invented in the early 1900s.
• How the CIA placed agents in the media and why they likely still do.
• How to understand family and friends with opposing political views.
• Why today’s social media censorship violates the First Amendment.
• Why “fact-checking” websites always fail.
• The modern meaning of “gaslighting,” “shadowbanning,” and “narrative management.”

Today, as this presidential election approaches its conclusion, as a heady season of last-minute candidate swaps and near-miss assassination attempts gives way to televised debates and early voting, why not do yourself a favor and learn a bit about the history of propaganda and how to unpack the corporate media’s narratives?

Click here to begin listening:

» Red White & Blind (the audiobook) «

When I first considered how to create the audiobook, I reviewed the manuscript and realized that many segments would be best delivered in my own voice. So I set out to read the entire thing, from start to finish, forgetting for a moment how huge an effort it is to record an audiobook. And this book is longer and more complex than the narrative nonfiction of my first book, Double Happiness, so it took a bit more to get it over the finish line. The project even grew a bit as I went. I realized it needed audio breaks to indicate section breaks and new chapters, so I sat down and recorded some guitar riffs and interspersed them into the audio flow. I also employed a female voice to read the primary sources authored by women, and that female voice belongs to a human very important to me: my amazing wife Pamela.

So this audiobook turned into something approaching a radio play.

And now it’s done. I think you’ll enjoy the final product quite a bit if I do say so myself. It will be released and ready for your enjoyment in just a few weeks.

More From This Newsletter

In other news—and there’s a lot of it these days with all that’s going on in the world—I believe I can help people see the world more clearly if I engage more fully with this newsletter. I will be adding more features here and on the video channel, and I hope you’ll let me know what you find valuable and useful.

From Joe Biden’s sudden departure from the upcoming presidential election, to the immediate entry of Kamala Harris; from the horrifying assassination attempt on Donald Trump, to the troubling global internet outage; from the ongoing bloody wars abroad, to the battles here at home over cultural issues and social media censorship—it has probably never been more important to be informed.

The corporate media, of course, would have you believe something strange about becoming informed: It’s impossible for you, poor citizen, to become truly informed about our scary complex world if you think for yourself. Your only hope is to trust us to tell you what’s going on.

Here at RW&B, whether you’ve read the book, watched some video episodes, or simply paid close attention to the news over the past few years, you know those disingenuous pronouncements are only designed to rob you of your power.

It’s actually possible today—for the first time in world history, thanks to this internet thing you’re using right now—to be truthfully informed most of the time about your world if you’re willing to put a little time into it.

These are the things I’m aiming to add, develop, and deliver here:

• An Enhanced Balanced Media Diet. Go to BalancedMediaDiet.com any time, a site that provides free, nonpartisan media diet advice for everyone. I’ve been putting more work into this site and pulling in the work of other media critics in order to enhancing it for new 2024 and 2025 diets.
  
• “BMD Daily.” These will be short posts that highlight a source and story (or two) from the day’s recommended diet at BalancedMediaDiet.com that to me seem useful, important, or interesting given the day’s news.
  
• Book Excerpts. In recording the audiobook for Red White & Blind and reading and rereading many passages while attempting to get the audio recording right, I noticed how many of the passages remain highly useful (in my humble opinion) when making sense of the news and current events. I recommend of course that you read the whole book or listen to the forthcoming audiobook, as I packed RW&B with every tidbit of research and insight I could about our media’s distortion of political and cultural issues. But I know that not everyone will do so for various reasons and simply publishing excerpts will be helpful in making this approach accessible.
  
• Features and Episodes. Finally, I will create new features and video episodes that share what my balanced media diet has led me to believe about current events. The other post types listed above will generally be nonpartisan and un-opinionated. New features and video episodes will include my analysis and opinion on current affairs.

If you find one of these features of value, please consider becoming a premium member here and supporting the independent media movement.

One Other Big New Launch

Finally, it would be impossible for me to send out an update to this list without mentioning the biggest news in my personal life. We welcomed a new human into our family and world in May—our new daughter Maven! She’s a beauty and a true gem in our eyes, and we’re very fortunate to have her with us here on earth.

That’s it. The audiobook is coming. This newsletter will be growing. A baby Brasunas has arrived.