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 .