How can reading a novel do any good? It's just fiction!

Because fiction can be the most powerful way to show reality/reveal the truth. It can change people's minds more quickly than all the facts and figures they may hear or read. During this all-important presidential campaign season, it is crucial that Americans see the truth of what a tparty/GOP/Rmoney/Koch brothers win would mean.

The bestselling, just-released novel Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned! is a scathing indictment of the toxic fiction/philosophy of  Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. Rand's work of FICTION has captured the imaginations of millions of readers--even though it's a totally made-up story. It is the bible of Republicans.

Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned! picks up where Rand's Atlas Shrugged ends. It shows how her vision has perverted capitalism into unbridled greed, the corporate takeover of America, and has ALREADY hurt generations of average men, women, and children. But, because Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned! is fiction, it can be a warning about "the future," how much worse things will get unless "the people" rise up to stop those who put "profit over people"  and elected officials who let them do it.

Email your comments and questions to Stephen L. Goldstein, author of Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned!, directly at trendsman@aol.com

Test the TRUTH and POWER of fiction for yourself. Order and read Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned!  Then, urge others to do the same. http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Drugged-Ayn-Rand-Damned/dp/1555717098/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1340982575&sr=8-1&keywords=atlas+drugged+ayn+rand+be+damned

Obama loses! Romney's elected! No! You don't have to wake up to that news!

There's still time to keep it from happening. But you've got to do something simple: Read & spread the word!

Imagine the horror you'll feel if you wake up the day after the election--and Romney's been elected, especially if the teaparty/GOP controls one or both houses of Congress. You'll be besides yourself, too depressed even to get out of bed.

EVEN WORSE: Imagine the horror you'll feel when you realize you could have done something to keep the unthinkable scenario from happening and save the USA from becoming a total corporate state--BUT YOU DIDN'T DO IT!

So rather than live in REGRET, do the best thing you can do NOW to keep Romney from becoming president and the country free of the Koch Brothers--WHILE YOU CAN STILL DO IT.

READ Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned!, the short, compelling, highly readable novel that shows you exactly what life will be when the United States becomes the Corporate States of America--and how to keep it from happening. It's fiction, but it bears a striking resemblance to the corporate takeover already under way--but worse, much worse if billionaires get their way after buying Romney & the GOP and demand payback for the money they spent.

Email your comments and questions to Stephen L. Goldstein, author of Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned!, directly at trendsman@aol.com

Yes! You can keep Romney & the billionaires from winning. Order your copy of Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned! right now. Read it and urge others to read it and urge others to read it. People power can be more powerful than billionaires' billions!
http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Drugged-Ayn-Rand-Damned/dp/1555717098/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1340696537&sr=8-1&keywords=atlas+drugged+ayn+rand+be+damned

Spread the word about Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned!--or Koch Brothers/GOP/Rmoney will have the last LAUGH

It's ALREADY an underground sensation. Now, help make it a household name!

How would you feel if you knew there was a book that average people would enjoy reading, a compelling novel, but that also revealed the unvarnished truth about the Koch brothers/GOP/Rmoney corporate takeover of the United States, but you didn't read it or urge others to--and Rmoney won? I thought so!

So, here's a serious request: I am asking ALL of you to read Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned! (if you haven't ALREADY) done so & urge at least one other person to do the same (read and spread the work). Give a copy as a gift. Ask people to comment about it on Facebook, Twitter, Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, everywhere.

Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned!--the ONLY work of fiction that TRULY tells it LIKE IT IS: http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Drugged-Ayn-Rand-Damned/dp/1555717098/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1340631219&sr=8-1&keywords=atlas+drugged+ayn+rand+be+damned

For FREE/Read 1st 20 pp/Be on your way to stopping corporate takeover of America: Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned!

For FREE, read 1st 20 pages of Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned! on the publisher's website, where you may also order it. It's all of Chapter 1: an introduction to Ayn Rand or refresher course if you've read Atlas Shrugged, as well as the unfolding of the plot of Atlas Drugged.

Atlas Drugged is more than just biting, political satire that skewers the toxic philosophy of Ayn Rand and mugs Atlas Shrugged. It's a potential game-changer in presidential campaign season. I call it truthful fiction/fictional truth because it describes the bad policies of the tea party/GOP/Koch Brothers/Rmoney--and how much worse they'll be if the "bad guys" win in November.

Here's the link to Chapter 1: http://hellgatepress.com/stephen-l-goldstein/atlas-drugged

Watch David Pakman interview me about Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned!

David Pakman interviews me on his TV show about sham/scam/flim-flam of Ayn Rand & Atlas Shrugged when we talk about Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned! http://www.davidpakman.com/2012/06/june-20-2012/

If you haven't already read the underground bestseller Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned!, order it NOW from http://www.amazon.com/, http://www.barnesandnoble.com/, http://www.hellgatepress.com/ or from your local bookstore. It's THE book to read--and to get OTHERS to read--BEFORE the November election.

On Amazon: Nate Stein Review: Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned!

"It's About Time!"

I have waited a long time for a book like this to be written. For decades, the world, but primarily the United States, has been lobotomized to believe that the philosophies of Ayn Rand are something to be modeled upon, they're not; we have been told to believe, via Rand's writings, that somehow the markets are god and that they can never do wrong; regulations and workers are something to be dehumanized, etc. These types of irrational ideas and their consequences have never been addressed before, until now. Stephen Goldstein's use of satire and insight provides for a terrific method on how to approach Ayn Rand's flawed arguments of individualism and free market-radicalism. When you read this book, you will laugh, you will be frightened and you'll be banging your head against the wall because the truthfulness will be too hard to bear. I am very grateful for this book.
                                                                                      --Nate Stein
Link: http://www.amazon.com/review/RXJKK3RV0J6J4/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#RXJKK3RV0J6J4

David Swanson: Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned="Hilarious" & "Debunking"

Atlas Drugged: A Review

By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/atlas-drugged-review
The Florida Sun Sentinel has for many years been rather unique, as a corporate newspaper with a regular columnist who's actually good, and I don't mean just good for the context, but actually worth reading even if the masses of South Florida weren't reading along.  Happily, they are. 

Stephen L. Goldstein has just published a book, also worth reading, called Atlas Drugged (Ayn Rand Be Damned!)  It's fiction, often hilarious fiction, aimed at debunking the notion that Ayn Randian "free-market" trickle-down crapitalism can coexist with basic human decency.  "This is a work of fiction," says the back cover.  "But any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely intentional.  The names have been changed but, hopefully, not enough to protect the guilty."

In fact, while the book takes rightwingerism to an extreme, it blends in plenty of elements from reality.  Imagine the most outlandish carrying of so-called conservatism to its logical conclusion, and abandoning New Orleans to a hurricane, or watching a fire department stand by while a house burns (because the owner didn't pay the proper fees) fits right in. 

The opening scene is basically a CPAC conference set in a world in which normal had become one of today's CPAC conferences.  The speeches of the fascists who populate this book ought to echo in the reader's head when he or she later hears the speeches of actual politicians, because the former are just slightly exaggerated versions of the latter.

The heroes of the book are part Occupy Wall Street, part Anonymous.  People march by the millions.  They organize and inspire.  They shut down all the department stores owned by a particular plutocrat, simply by "shopping" en masse, without actually buying anything.  But other tactics, from stunts involving animal dung (you have to read it) to hacking into the sound system at important events, rely on a small, secretive band of super-heroes -- too much so, I suspect.  A real revolution is more likely to come through a combination that relies more heavily on popular action and less on the secret heroics of beings who fuse together Julian Assange with the Yes Men and MacGyver.

I also wish there weren't quite so much nationalism in what is after all a fantasy of an ideal future at war with a kleptocratic dystopia.  But if you're going to go all in for the founders and the red-white-and-blue, it would have been better to remember the one thing the founders got most right that we have most forgotten: you don't give a single individual power. You can't solve tyranny through a presidential election, replacing a bad tyrant with a good one.  You have to divide and check power, reducing the president to an impotent executive.  In fact, one would hope that after a couple of centuries we would be able to at least fantasize about moving further toward direct democracy, and away from monarchy.

Be that as it may, it's not as if "Atlas Drugged" is going to move people in the direction of pinning their hopes on presidential candidates more than they already do (a physical impossibility).  It is, however, going to deservedly and comically drag through the mud of its own making the disgustingly stupid idea that greed and selfishness are the smart way to be kind and generous.  The result, I hope and expect, will be a greater ability to spot the absurdity of the political philosophy being satirized.  If THIS is where free-market principles lead, if the catastrophe carved out by the job-creators in this book is what we're consciously attempting to arrive at, then we'd better reject as absolutely evil many of the assumptions and claims we encounter every day in the rhetoric and the policy coming from our politicians, including of course -- this being reality after all -- both of our leading candidates for president.

Now order Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned! from Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Drugged-Ayn-Rand-Damned/dp/1555717098/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342135140&sr=8-1&keywords=atlas+drugged+ayn+rand+be+damned. It's also available from http://www.barnesandnoble.com/, http://www.hellgatepress.com/  (the publisher), as well as bookstores nationwide.

David Swanson's books include "War Is A Lie." He blogs at http://davidswanson.org/ and http://warisacrime.org/ and works for the online activist organization http://rootsaction.org/. He hosts Talk Nation Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @davidcnswanson and FaceBook.

Howie Klein: Praise for Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned!

I'm reading Stephen Goldstein's fantastic new book, Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned! which should be the perfect reparative therapy for Paul Ryan's staffers who were forced to read the Ayn Rand novels that he claims animated his political career.

Described as "the long-overdue obituary for the unbridled greed glorified by Atlas Shrugged, I find myself rationing the book so I can savor it without finishing it all in one gulp.--posted on http://www.downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/

You may order Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned from Amazon.com, http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Drugged-Ayn-Rand-Damned/dp/1555717098/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1339688257&sr=8-1, BarnesandNoble.com, or directly from the publisher http://www.hellgatepress.com/

From Paparazzinc.com: Review of Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned!

From Paparazzinc. Go to http://www.paparazzinc.com/ for FULL review:

Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned! Reads like a modern day indictment of the 1% by the 99% with just enough truth to figure out who’s who. A narrow look into the conservative movement blinded by allegiance to the flag, but not the flag you’ve come to know. 

With overtones of the Tea Party or any organization that requires blind obedience, Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned! comes at you like a sharpened razor blade through freshly scrubbed sun burned skin. The author, Dr. Stephen L. Goldstein, never lets up. You might be uncomfortable with the content, and we suspect that may be the point of this book of fiction--that perfect world of unbridled greed masked as the status quo. 

Goldstein does a fine job laying out the violations of decency and fairness, but is it fiction? Careful what you wish for. Over the top? Hardly, when you factor in the unbridled greed of Wall Street, the recession, the collapse of the American Dream/Housing, the Tea Party movement, big money donors, the do-nothing Congress and run away capitalism. 

If you’re not asking yourself Where have I seen this before? or if this sounds familiar, connect the dots as you read. Eventually you’ll piece the puzzle together. Go out and buy a copy of Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned! then loan it to a friend at the next Tea Party event. If you dare! 

Author, journalist, and radio and TV talk show host Stephen L. Goldstein is an op-ed columnist and one of ‘The Dueling Columnists’, for The Sun-Sentinel, Tribune paper in South Florida. The author lives in Florida. 

You may order Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned from Amazon.com, http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Drugged-Ayn-Rand-Damned/dp/1555717098/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1339688257&sr=8-1, BarnesandNoble.com, or directly from the publisher http://www.hellgatepress.com/