Amazon Has Banned My Anti-MMT Book

Robert Wenzel
Editor & Publisher
rw@epjmail.com

It appears that Amazon has banned my book, "Problems With Modern Monetary Theory: A Comment on Stephanie Kelton's 'The Deficit Myth'"

For a while, it was ranked as the number one best seller in several Amazon categories.

It was selling very well. Apparently too well for Bezos and the "Deficits don't matter" crowd.

You will recall that when the book first came out, I had trouble with it because the link for the book at Amazon somehow ended up "Fast pink hot girls."

Find out what they don't want you to read. It is available by ordering through your local bookstore or online through Lulu.

In addition to my book, "Problems With Modern Monetary Theory: A Comment on Stephanie Kelton's 'The Deficit Myth'" being blocked/banned/delisted. (It is back up after my distributor called Amazon).


It appears that a large number of broadly classified "right-wing" books beyond my book have been blocked/banned/delisted byAmazon. It is not clear if this is temporary, a rogue employee or what.:
• The Unbroken Thread• Live Not by Lies• Why Liberalism Failed• The Virtue of Nationalism• The Politics of Virtue• Hillbilly Elegy• Under Siege• Chaos Monkeys• Coming ApartEudaimonia, Esq.@TheAristoteIian

@TheAristoteIianAlso blocked: Integralism: A Manual of Political PhilosophyEudaimonia, Esq.@TheAristoteIian
Also blocked: the English version of The Decadent Society by Ross DouthatEudaimonia, Esq.@TheAristoteIian·
Also blocked: Natural Law and Human Rights by Pierre ManentEudaimonia, Esq.@TheAristoteIian
Also blocked: Mere Christianity by CS LewisEudaimonia, Esq.@TheAristoteIian·
Also blocked: God or Nothing by Cardinal SarahEudaimonia, Esq.@TheAristoteIian·
Also blocked: Heart of the World, Center of the Church by David SchindlerEudaimonia, Esq.@TheAristoteIian·
Also blocked: To Change the Church by Ross Douthat @DouthatNYTEudaimonia, Esq.@TheAristoteIian
Also blocked: The Tragedy of Religious Freedom by Marc O. DeGirolami (@MarcODeGirolamiEudaimonia, Esq.@TheAristoteIian·
Also blocked: What it Means to be Human by @cartersneadEudaimonia, Esq.@TheAristoteIian·
Also blocked: 12 Rules for Life by @jordanbpeterson Jordan PetersonEudaimonia, Esq.@TheAristoteIian·
Also blocked: The Age of Entitlement by Christopher CaldwellEudaimonia, Esq.@TheAristoteIian
Also blocked: Amazon’s listings for Critics of the Enlightenment by Christopher O. BlumEudaimonia, Esq.@TheAristoteIian·
Also blocked: Revolt Against the Modern World by Julius EvolaJackson Boczar@boczarj7·
- Maps of Meaning - The Right Side of History
All gone or censored from searches

-RW

Manufacturing Consent: Censorship and BIG TECH monopolies

By Rubashov

The original “progressives” had their own party in America and included both Republicans and Democrats. What came to be known as the Progressive Era in American politics (1900-17) spanned the administrations of two Republican presidents – Theodore Roosevelt and William Taft – and one Democrat, Woodrow Wilson.

Back then, progressives were deeply concerned about monopolies and the concentration of economic and political power in the hands of a few people. In Congress, progressives used the law to break up monopolies and to decentralize and spread out power. That’s a big contrast with many who use the term “progressive” today. So, are they really “progressive” or are they a part of the corporate Establishment that has merely co-opted a “brand” and occupied a space so that people think they have choice, when in fact they have no choice?

Our ability to make choices, to think and speak freely without fear of government or corporate coercion is now in doubt. Yesterday, in hearings before the United States Senate, tech monopolies revealed that they work together to censor and shut down opinions that disagree with ideas or products they are promoting – while they violate your privacy to collect and sell personal information about you.

Pay close attention to the part of this video where U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) questions Facebook’s corporate master…

What we are experiencing is the manufacture of consent. In 1988, Professor Noam Chomsky wrote a book by that name – Manufacturing Consent – explaining the propaganda model of mass media, which explains the media’s ownership, motivations, biases, and methods. Here is a short video from a documentary based on the book Manufacturing Consent…

Chomsky wrote Manufacturing Consent in collaboration with economist Edward S. Herman. Professor Chomsky has written more than 100 books. He is a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, and social critic. He is Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has written extensively on war, politics, and the role played by the mass media.

Professor Chomsky rose to national prominence as an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War. He was part of what was then called “the New Left” and was arrested multiple times for his activism and placed on President Richard Nixon's Enemies List (an early form of “canceling” and not unlike what is now being proposed by Congressman Bill Pascrell and others).

Professor Chomsky worked to expose the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, in contrast with such establishment Democrats as Josh Gottheimer (who once worked for the public relations firm that lobbied for the genocidal totalitarians who murdered upwards of 200,000 Roman Catholics). Chomsky opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq (which, like the Gulf of Tonkin incident that began the Vietnam War, was based on a lie… Weapons of Mass Destruction).

As we move forward through the minefields of Big Tech censorship, abrogation of the Bill of Rights, and emergency edicts attendant with the COVID pandemic – we should use Professor Chomsky as a guide in examining the role of the media in promoting fear and compliance instead of asking tough questions of corporate Establishment types like Governor Phil Murphy. And we must always bear in mind the concerns voiced by U.S. Senator Frank Church (D-Idaho), in 1975, about the technology available then and its deadly potential for democracy:

“If this government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology.

I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.”

"...Facebook censorship teams communicate with their counterparts at Twitter and Google and then enter those companies' suggestions for censorship onto the Task platform so that Facebook can follow up with them and effectively coordinate their censorship efforts."

U.S. Senator Josh Hawley
November 17, 2020