The cynical state / Colin Leys -- The truth about capitalist democracy / Atilio A. Boron -- The 'business community' / Doug Henwood -- The truth about welfare reform / Frances Fox Piven, Barbara Ehrenreich -- The 'scholarly myths' of the new law and order doxa / Loïc Wacquant -- Telling the truth at a moment of truth : US news media and the invasion and occupation of Iraq / Robert W. McChesney -- Propaganda-managed democracy : the UK and the lessons of Iraq / David Miller -- Correcting Stiglitz : from information to power in the world of development / Ben Fine, Elisa Van Waeyenberge -- Counting the poor : the truth about world poverty statistics / Sanjay G. Reddy -- Playing with the truth : the politics of theatre / Michael Kustow -- Postmodernism and the corruption of the academic intelligentsia / John Sanbonmatsu -- Telling the truth about class / G. M. Tomás -- On telling the truth / Terry Eagleton.