State of Confusion or Biohazard

State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind

Author: Bryant Welch

Finally, the answer to the many questions that have been preying on the minds of millions of Americans has arrived. Why are Americans so vulnerable to divisive political tactics? Why did Americans get dragged into such an unwise war in Iraq? Why do fundamentalist religious groups, Fox News, and right-wing radio still play such influential roles in America’s political landscape? And why are long-accepted rational scientific ideas like evolution under siege? These questions hold America’s future in the balance. Ultimately, they are questions about the American mind.  Psychologist-attorney Dr. Bryant Welch has the answers.

If America is going to change the mind-set that led us to war in Iraq and left us unable to confront our serious national problems, this book is vitally important. Drawing on his unique experience both as a clinical psychologist and a Washington, D.C., political figure with the American Psychological Association, Dr. Welch shows how the long-term effects of sophisticated new forms of political manipulation have not only led to our debacle in Iraq but are also currently undercutting America’s ability to address its very serious problems. In the 1944 movie Gaslight, a husband drives his wife to the brink of insanity by playing games with her sense of reality. Just as in the movie, America’s most recent political “gaslighters,” such as George W. Bush, Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and many religious leaders, have generated and exploited confusion in the minds of countless Americans.

Gaslighters prey on their victim’s vulnerability to paranoia, sexualperplexity, and envy to undermine the mind’s ability to function rationally. Welch examines why millions of Americans, in response to such assaults, subconsciously and dangerously create their own simplistic reality, even if it is completely different from the more complex reality of the world.

Most important, State of Confusion explains how and why Americans must act now to fight back against this harmful manipulation before it’s too late. Dr. Welch’s exploration of the American mind is both fascinating and frightening, and State of Confusion is a must-read for everyone who cares about the future of this great country.

Book about: One Soldiers Story or A History of the Federal Reserve

Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World Told

Author: Ken W Alibek

Anthrax. Smallpox. Incurable and horrifying Ebola-related fevers. For two decades, while a fearful world prepared for nuclear winter, an elite team of Russian bioweaponeers began to till a new killing field: a bleak tract sown with powerful seeds of mass destruction--by doctors who had committed themselves to creating a biological Armageddon. Biohazard is the never-before-told story of Russia's darkest, deadliest, and most closely guarded Cold War secret.

No one knows more about Russia's astounding experiments with biowarfare than Ken Alibek. Now the mastermind behind Russia's germ warfare effort reveals two decades of shocking breakthroughs...how Moscow's leading scientists actually reengineered hazardous microbes to make them even more virulent...the secrets behind the discovery of an invisible, untraceable new class of biological agents just right for use in political assassinations...the startling story behind Russia's attempt to turn a sample of the AIDS virus into the ultimate bioweapon. And in a chilling work of real-world intrigue, Biohazard offers us all a rare glimpse into a shadowy scientific underworld where doctors manufacture mass destruction, where witnesses to errors are silenced forever, and where ground zero is closer than we ever dared believe.

Table of Contents:

	Prologue	ix
	Map: Soviet Biological Warfare Installations	xii
	Military Medicine
1	Army Headquarters	3
2	Rebirth Island	15
3	Military Medicine	29
4	The Enzyme Project	39
	Biohazard
5	Lab Work	51
6	Building 107	62
7	Accident at Sverdlovsk	70
8	Progress	87
9	Smallpox	107
10	Vector	123
	Secrets and Lies
11	The Institute of Ultra-Pure Biopreparations	137
12	Bonfire	153
13	The First Main Directorate	168
14	Inside the Kremlin	180
15	Visitors	193
16	Three Days	207
	Fortress America
17	Fort Detrick	225
18	Communist Prospekt	241
19	Debriefing	257
20	Buyers and Sellers	270
21	Biodefense	280
Appendix 1	Chart of Soviet Biological Warfare System	293
Appendix 2	Soviet Biological Warfare System	295
	Acknowledgments	305
	Index	307