Books
Recommended Books (synopsis’ taken from amazon.co.uk)
By virtue of his previous four books on the subject, David Ray Griffin is widely recognized as one of the leading spokespersons of the 9/11 truth movement, which rejects the official conspiracy theory about 9/11. Although this movement was long ignored by the US government and the mainstream media, recent polls have shown that the rejection of the official theory has become “a mainstream political phenomenon.” No longer ignoring the 9/11 truth movement, the government and the corporately controlled media have released a flurry of stories and reports aimed at debunking it.
In the present book, David Ray Griffin shows that these attempts can themselves be easily debunked. Besides demonstrating the pitiful failure of Debunking 9/11 Myths (published by Popular Mechanics and endorsed by Senator John McCain), Griffin challenges recent reports and stories put out by the US Department of State, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the “New York Times”, “Vanity Fair”, and “Time” magazine. This book, by debunking the most prevalent attempts to refute the evidence cited by the 9/11 truth movement, shows that this movement’s central claim – that 9/11 was an inside job – remains the only explanation that fits the facts.
New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11 – by David Ray Griffin
“I studied American history, so I knew that the US government had fabricated ‘incidents’ as an excuse to go to war several times before. Nevertheless, although the thought did cross my mind that 9/11 might likewise have been arranged, I did not take this possibility seriously.”
So writes David Ray Griffin, an eminent philosopher and theologian, in his introduction to “The New Pearl Harbor”. From this sceptical vantage point Griffin brings together an account of a terrible tragedy that is far more logical than the one we’ve been asked to believe. Gathering stories from the American press, from the work of other researchers and the contradictory words of members of the Bush administration themselves, Griffin presents a case that leaves very little doubt that the attacks of 9/11 need to be further investigated. He begins with these questions: Once radio contact was lost with the various hijacked aircraft, why weren’t jets immediately scrambled from the nearest military airport, something that is routine procedure, according to the FAA’s own manual? And why did the administration’s story about scrambling jets change in the days following the attacks? The disturbing questions don’t stop there: they emerge from every part of the story, from every angle, until it is impossible not to doubt the official story, and suspect its architects of enormous deception.
Long a teacher of ethics and theology, Griffin writes with compelling and passionate logic, urging readers to draw their own conclusions from the evidence outlined. “The New Pearl Harbor” rings with the conviction that it is possible, even today, to search for the truth; it is a stirring call demanding a real investigation into what happened on 9/11.
The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions – by David Ray Griffin
With US political leaders – Democrat and Republican alike – embracing the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, and an eager media receiving the Commission’s 567 page report as the whole story, everyone who cares about the fate of American democracy will want to know something about what those pages actually say.
The Commission’s account, has made an impression with its size, its endnotes, its detail, its narrative finesse. Yet under the magnifying glass of eminent theologian David Ray Griffin, author of The New Pearl Harbor (a book that explores questions that reporters, eyewitnesses, and political observers have raised about the 9/11 attacks), the report appears much shabbier. In fact, there are holes in the places where detail ought to be abundant: Is it possible that Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld has given three different stories of what he was doing the morning of September 11, and that the Commission combines two of them and ignores eyewitness reports to the contrary? Is it possible that the man in charge of the military that day, Acting Head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers, saw the first tower hit on TV, and then went into a meeting, where he remained unaware of what was happening for the next 40 minutes? Is it possible, as the Commission reports, that the FAA did not inform the military that the fourth aeroplane appeared to have been hijacked, contrary to both common sense and the word of FAA employees?
David Ray Griffin’s critique of the Commission’s report makes clear that America’s highest leaders have told tales that wear extremely thin when held up to the light of other eyewitness reports, research, and the dictates of common sense, and that the Commission charged with the task of investigating all of the facts surrounding 9/11 has succeeded in obscuring, rather than unearthing, the truth.
9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA – by Webster Griffin Tarpley
The thesis of this book has been enthusiastically received with its working model of the 9/11 plot: a covert network of moles, patsies, and a commando cell in the privatised intelligence services, backed by corrupt political and corporate media elites. Buttressed by historical examples like the Baader-Meinhof Gang and the Gunpowder Plot, this model makes it clear how such a monstrous false-flag or self-terror exploit is possible even under a largely benign government. That paradox is the incredibility gap that has made most Americans reject the evidence about 9/11 as paranoid fantasy.
Tarpley brings decades of expertise to the 9/11 issue. In 1978, he exposed the terrorist Red Brigades as patsies of Italy’s fascist P2 shadow government, and 9/11 is on the same pattern. The forthright subtitle, “Made in USA”, is backed up by an analysis of key figures who behave like moles working for the insidious network. “9/11 Synthetic Terror” highlights the salient points of sheer physical impossibility of the official 9/11 conspiracy theory.
It makes clear that figures like Osama bin Laden are patsies, dupes or double agents, selected for their ethnic colouring as the basis for launching a “Clash of Civilisations”, and how absurd it is to imagine that such tools of US intelligence agencies could turn around and infiltrate or overwhelm US defences unaided. Tarpley shows that the wars on the Islamic world, the Soviet-Afghan, Kosovo and Chechen conflicts, as well as US-UK-NATO synthetic terror incidents like 9/11, Beslan or 3/11 in Madrid, have been contrived to continue the Cold War, in pursuit of the centuries-long campaign for Anglo hegemony over Eurasia and the world.
The preface to the second edition explains the significance and superiority of “MIHOP” vs “LIHOP”, and the many drills on 9/11 and on 7/7, which were cover and conduit for those false-flag operations. The third edition preface makes clear that 9/11 is the only issue that can stop a new world war and the descent into a police state. It shows up the cowardice of the “left gatekeepers” on this score.
The analysis of Moussaoui on trial as a classic weak-minded patsy – part double agent, part fanatic – again shows the unique power of Tarpley’s mole-patsy model to debunk the lies put out by the war party. For a principled refutation of the 9/11 propaganda myth in all its parts, Tarpley’s bombshell, brilliant book – I strongly recommend “911 Synthetic Terror”. It should be required reading for all honest truth seekers. This work is indispensable.
The London Bombings: An Independent Inquiry – by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
The following is an Amazon Review By Luc REYNAERT (Beernem, Belgium)
In this heavily censored book, N.M. Ahmed’s courageous, independent and painstaking research, reveals a very disturbing overall picture: the collusion of British intelligence with radical Islamist networks in order to protect international regional strategic and economic private interests (energy).
Apparently, under a `Covenant of Security’, British authorities allowed radical Islamists to use the UK as a base of operations for international terrorist activities, as long as they did not target British interests at home.
But, this tacit agreement undermined the ability of British intelligence to guarantee domestic security. The London bombings could be considered as a classic blowback: the, inside Britain, freely operating international network linked to al-Qaeda turned against its benefactor’s home ground.
For N.M. Ahmed, the London attacks were `undoubtedly’ discoverable and preventable. The mastermind of the bombings could even have been a double agent. The fact that the British intelligence services are operating to a political rather than a security agenda is a case of `criminal negligence’, for by protecting private powerful vested interests they neglect the security of the British people at home. More, they are operating without a mandate of the British people, which poses the ultimate question of democracy and the ability of citizens to participate meaningfully in policymaking relevant to their own security.
N.M. Ahmed asks for, at least, an independent and thorough inquiry into the London bombings. But also, a complete overhaul of the British national security system, seeing its terrible neglect of national security, its dirty hands in international bloodshed for `sinister interests’ and its indirect implication in drug trafficking (400 billion US $ per year, with veteran drug-traffickers put again in power in Afghanistan) .
An extremely courageous and eye-opening book.
A must read.
The War on Truth: Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism – by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
Ahmed’s first book on 9/11, The War on Freedom, was acclaimed around the world for its meticulous compilation of facts about the event. Published just a little over a half year after the attacks, it was the first book to document the inconsistencies and contradictions in the government’s official version of what happened. This new book, The War on Truth, was originally intended to be an update of that text, but the amount of new material available warranted an entirely new volume.
Though this book retains the analysis and information of the earlier book, it doubles the data and adds extensive new material, including an analysis of the 9/11 Commission Report and wider discussion of US policies toward al-Qaeda. For anyone who remains uneasy about the alignment of reported facts and official narrative, Ahmed’s new book is an invaluable resource.
NATO’s Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe – by Daniele Ganser
The CIA and the British secret service MI6, in collaboration with the military alliance NATO and European military secret services set up a network of clandestine anticommunist armies in Western Europe after World War II. The secret soldiers were trained on remote islands in the Mediterranean and in unorthodox warfare centers in England and in the United States by the Green Berets and SAS Special Forces. The network was armed with explosives, machine guns and high-tech communication equipment hidden in underground bunkers and secret arms caches in forests and mountain meadows.
In some countries the secret army linked up with right-wing terrorist who in a secret war engaged in political manipulation, harrassement of left wing parties, massacres, coup ‘Etats and torture. Codenamed “Gladio” (‘the sword’), the Italian secret army was exposed in 1990 by Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti to the Italian Senate, whereupon the press spoke of “The best kept, and most damaging, political-military secret since World War II” (Observer, 18. November 1990) and observed that “The story seems straight from the pages of a political thriller.” (The Times, November 19, 1990).
Ever since, so-called ’stay-behind’ armies of NATO have also been discovered in France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Austria, Greece and Turkey. They were internationally coordinated by the Pentagon and NATO and had their last known meeting in the NATO-linked Allied Clandestine Committee (ACC) in Brussels in October 1990.
The attacks of September 11, 2001 were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. ‘Crossing the Rubicon’ discovers and identifies key suspects — finding some of them in the highest echelons of American government — by showing how they acted in concert to guarantee that the attacks produced the desired result.
Crossing the Rubicon is unique not only for its case-breaking examination of 9/11, but for the breadth and depth of its world picture — an interdisciplinary analysis of petroleum, geopolitics, narco-traffic, intelligence and militarism — without which 9/11 cannot be understood. The US manufacturing sector has been mostly replaced by speculation on financial data whose underlying economic reality is a dark secret. Hundreds of billions of dollars in laundered drug money flow through Wall Street each year from opium and coca fields maintained by CIA-sponsored warlords and US-backed covert paramilitary violence. America’s global dominance depends on a continually turning mill of guns, drugs, oil and money. Oil and natural gas — the fuels that make economic growth possible — are subsidised by American military force and foreign lending.
In reality, 9/11 and the resulting ‘War on Terror’ are parts of a massive authoritarian response to an emerging economic crisis of unprecedented scale. Peak Oil — the beginning of the end for our industrial civilisation — is driving the elites of American power to implement unthinkably draconian measures of repression, warfare and population control. This is more than a story. It is a map of the perilous terrain through which, together and alone, we are all now making our way.
Unpeople: Britain’s Secret Human Rights Abuses – by Mark Curtis
The Following is an Amazon Review By Dave Watton (Birmingham, England)
As a British citizen living under the long shadow of the New Labour political project, it is difficult not to be overwhelmed with cynicism when pondering the motivations and goals of a set of politicians so deeply in thrall to Big Business. Increasingly, too, the poverty of ideals among the mainstream UK political parties, in essence rival factions of the same party representing the narrow interests of the ruling state-corporate elite (as in the US), makes many fearful for the future of representative democracy in the UK.
Yet, even for those disillusioned with this depressing state of affairs, modern historian Mark Curtis’ disturbing new book, Unpeople, is still likely to come as a huge shock. Unstintingly and unswervingly, in case study after case study, Curtis uncovers the extraordinary levels of deception lurking beneath the squeaky-clean veneer of UK foreign policy’s much-vaunted concern for human rights. At the heart of the author’s portrayal of Britain as an outlaw state – one that certainly gives the US a good run for its money – lie the ‘unpeople’. These are the expendable citizens of faraway countries who have suffered and died under the miseries imposed by the equally ruthless foreign policies of both Labour and Tory governments. Indeed, according to Curtis’ conservative calculations, Britain may well be complicit in the deaths of in excess of 10 million ‘unpeople’ since World War Two.
Those who have already read Curtis’ previous expose, Web of Deceit (2003), will immediately recognise the rigour of his content and the thoroughness of his research, while warming once again to his very readable writing style. In many ways, this book continues where ‘WOD’ left off, bringing the UK’s misadventures in Iraq up to date (circa autumn 2004) while mining declassified government documents in order to lay bare Britain’s malevolent influences in conflicts as far afield and removed in history as Vietnam and Biafra (during the 1960s under the Wilson government) and contemporary Colombia.
In summary, ‘Unpeople’ is essential – though highly unpalatable – reading for anyone seeking to understand Britain’s real role in the world. Be prepared for this five-star text to disabuse you of some comforting but misplaced assumptions.
The Web of Deceit: Britain’s Real Role in the World – by Mark Curtis
In his explosive and revealing new book, Mark Curtis reasons that Britain is a ‘rogue state’, often a violator of international law and a systematic condoner of human rights abuses, as well as a key ally of many repressive regimes. Curtis argues that under the Blair government, Britain has become a champion of a form of globalisation that is increasing the takeover of the global economy by big business, and far from changing course post-September 11th, British policies are partly responsible for the continuation – and often deepening – of global poverty and inequality, while its arms exports and nuclear policies are making the world a more dangerous place.
The “Web of Deceit” describes the staggering gulf that has arisen between New Labour’s professed commitment to upholding ethical values and the reality of current policies, including British participation in the ‘war on terrorism’ as a new pretext for global intervention; the immorality of British policy in Afghanistan, Kosovo, Iraq and Indonesia; effective support for repressive state policies of Israel, Russia, Turkey and the Gulf states; acquiescence in the Rwanda genocide; and the deepening of poverty-increasing economic policies through the World Trade Organisation. Drawing on the declassified government files, the book also reveals British complicity in the slaughter of a million people in Indonesia; the depopulation of the island of Diego Garcia; the overthrow of governments in Iran and British Guiana; repressive colonial policies in Kenya and Malaya; and much more. The “Web of Deceit” reveals a new picture of the reality of Britain’s role in the world. It is both a comprehensive critique of the foreign policies of the Blair government, as well as an analysis of British foreign policy since 1945.
