The Center for an Informed America

The Internet’s Best Source for Disinformation-Free News and Commentary
Dave and Chloe. Brown-haired man in mid-50s squats in front of a creek with a doberman whose tongue is hanging out.

Welcome to the Center for an Informed America!

This site will serve as a permanent online archive of the research, essays, and newsletters of author Dave McGowan (March 25, 1960–November 22, 2015). Click here for obituary and guestbook.
It is owned and maintained by his daughter Alissa.

Updates & Announcements

December 2022

Its here! The updated Derailing Democracy has been published under its original title, Myth America. I included an editor’s note and some updated research in the footnotes. Get your copy today!

Why Everything You Think You Know About the Lincoln Assassination is Wrong
Why Everything You Think You Know About the Lincoln Assassination is Wrong
The Boston Marathon Bombing: Fully Exposed
Laurel Canyon
September 11, 2001 Revisited

News, Commentary, Analysis, and Wild Speculation

In which your intrepid host attempts to pierce the myriad levels of lies being sold by the media by fearlessly wading into the muck in search of a few nuggets of truth, or at least a good story to tell.

America Under a Bush
WTC News Briefs
Welcome to the Fourth Reich
On Courage and Patriotism
Celluloid Heroes: Part I
Celluloid Heroes: Part II
American Heroes?
Sleazefest in Seattle

The Center for an Informed America Newsletter

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Newsletter #86
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Newsletter #81

Books

Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon
Programmed to Kill
Understanding the F-Word
Derailing Democracy

Closing Thoughts

“And it seems to me perfectly in the cards that there will be within the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing … a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods.”
Aldous Huxley, 1959

“Through clever and constant application of propaganda people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.”
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1923

“If ignorance is truly bliss, then why do so many Americans need Prozac?”
Dave McGowan, 2000