The Power of Nightmares – Must See Documentary
Excellent Crooks and Liars piece about the BBC documentary, The Power of Nightmares. It is a 3 hour long piece that documents the rise to power of the Neocons and the Islamic fundamentalists. The production highlights many parallels between the two movements.
The three one hour long episodes that comprise the Power of Nightmares has never been broadcast on American network TV or to a mainstream audience. The Crooks and Liars post does go into this providing this quote from writer/producer Adam Curtis:
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Categories: politics Tags: Adam Curtis, Muslim Fundamentalism, Neocons, Political Documentary, Terrorism, The Power of Nightmares
Terrorism Industries Inc.
Unless you spent Christmas in a cave you’d have heard about this incident aboard a plane heading for Detroit airport. A Nigerian man attempted to blow up himself and the plane.
Cable news went into full on stupid mode, covering nothing else but this incident with the usual self appointed “terrorism experts” crawling out of the woodwork for their 20 minutes of face time. Face time essential to the promotion of their grubby little security consultancies set up in the wave of opportunism that followed 9/11. Bush said go shopping and these parasites did – for a new name with words like American and strategic and initiative and security in it, and some new albeit expensive stationary. Some of course, went even further.
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Categories: politics Tags: blackwater, news reporting, Terrorism, Terrorism industry
The Real Reason the GOP opposes pros…
The Real Reason the GOP opposes
prosecuting the terrorists in NYC through the standard civilian legal process.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/11/13/804256/-Theres-a-Reason-Republicans-Are-Pissing-Their-Pants
Clue: It has absolutely nothing to do with keeping America safe – more keeping their own reputations intact.
Categories: Uncategorized Tags: 9/11, GOP, Terrorism
Leiberman Katrina and Fort Hood
Leiberman is doing his best to stir up anti Arab sentiment in the wake of the tragic Fort Hood Shooting. The incident where the shooter happened to be a Muslim and much to the deep joy of the Right Wing Nut Jobs and I suspect, Senator Leiberman, he had a really Arab sounding name.
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs will seek to move forward on an investigation surrounding the mass shooting Thursday at Fort Hood Army base in Texas, Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.), the comittee’s chairman, said today.
Lieberman mentioned that the shooter had “turned to Islamist extremism” on Fox News (his spiritual home). Strange how he and his fellow xenophobes see fit to focus on that when they have never zeroed in on the fact that many mass killers profess to be Christian. A well worn argument I know but one that needs constant repetition.
Interesting graf in the WaPo piece:
“Therefore, if that is true, the murder of these 13 people was a terrorist act and, in fact, it was the most destructive terrorist act to be committed on American soil since 9/11.” (Leiberman)