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America's "War on Terrorism"

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Michel Chossudovsky's ultimate goal is to serve World peace by revealing extensive war crimes behind the `War on Terror'. His picture of the world and the US is far from rosy. For him, the `War on Terror' is in fact a `War of Conquest'.
This is a very convincing but disturbing book pointing to the criminalization of upper echelons of the US State with the complicity of the media, which upholds the Bush administration's war agenda, camouflages war crimes, floods the world with blatantly distorted facts and disseminates fear amongst the population.
For the author, the US is on the brink of becoming an authoritarian state. Key decisions are taken behind closed doors at the intelligence headquarters and the Pentagon, with the US Congress as a façade and a president as a public relations figurehead. The military/intelligence establishment acts as a parallel government.
The `War on Terror' is used for the repeal of civil liberties and Constitutional government. New legitimacy emerged that undermines the judicial system (`Rule of Law') and that lays the foundation of a totalitarian state: emergency procedures can be used to usher Martial Law, leading to the suspension of Constitutional government.
In the US national budget, state resources are redirected towards financing the military-industrial complex and domestic security, while social programs have been slashed.

Internationally, the `War on Terror' is a pretext to conquer new economic frontiers, establish corporate controls (e.g. Iraq's oil), to encircle Russia (permanent military bases in the Balkans, Iraq, Afghanistan and in former USSR republics) or to prevent pipeline ventures with China and Iran.
The US continues to support Islamic fundamentalism (India, China, Chechnya) in order to weaken `enemies', or to disarm social movements against the US (e.g. with the Taliban they try to create a new Saudi Arabia in Afghanistan where the leader of the Northern Alliance backed by Russia, was killed).
Al Qaeda was heavily supported by the CIA and NATO in order to destabilize the Yugoslav federation.

With `private wealth is in fewer and fewer hands', the author sees an upcoming world dominated by big corporations (finance, energy, pharma) and the military/intelligence establishment with the media as their mouthpiece.

The author concludes with very disturbing facts about the London bombings which provided a new legitimacy to those who had ordered the illegal invasion of Iraq and which weakened significantly the antiwar and civil rights movements.

Michel Chossudovsky has written a dark and frightening book.
It is a must read for all those interested in the future of mankind.

I also recommend the works of W.G. Tarpley, W. Engdahl and N.M. Ahmed.

Chossudovsky is an economics professor and a staunch critic of the New World Order agenda and the ongoing lies and war profiteering connected to that agenda. This book is a well-documented analysis of how the imperial racketeers operate, with an extensive deconstruction of the official mythology of the 9/11 attacks. Chossudovsky makes a solid case that elements with the US Government and the associated military-industrial complex were involved in orchestrating the attacks, using their CIA-created Arab assets as patsies for the official story used to justify the planned wars and freedom repressing legislations such as the PATRIOT Act. Chossudovsky traces the workings of U.S. intelligence operations and policies for many years, showing how the idea that 9/11 was a "make it happen on purpose" affair is most logical and best supported by the evidence. He looks at the long term agenda being pursued and how it will affect us if it continues unchecked. This isn't a difficult book to read and comprehend but it may be difficult for those who have held faith in the government and media establishment to digest. Chossudovsky has studied this subject well and his materials have been available at www.globalresearch.ca for several years. Anyone wishing to learn about the topics of 9/11, American imperialism, and the role of wars in the move toward globalization, is encouraged to read this book.

This is a helpful book, useful and pointed, that attempts to document, with some but not complete success, the charge that Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda were concocted threats spawned by the CIA and used by the Bush Administration to permit unilateral military operations aimed at capturing Central Asian and Iraqi energy resources.

The author has clearly done a great deal of research and independent thinking, but the book would have benefited considerably from an intergration of the timelines and other thoughts to be found in such excellent works as "Crossing the Rubicon," "Resource Wars" etcetera.

The author's central thesis is that we are moving toward a totalitarians new world order in which war, police repression, and predatory economic policies are integrated and interface with one another to create a privileged wealth class, and impoverish the rest of the world including the American and Canadian middle classes. It merits comment that the author's primary scholarly accomplishments are in the economic arena, and this book is appreciated more if one also reads his "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order."

The author points out something I did NOT know from my other 700 books as reviewed here at Amazon: that Bin Laden was in a Pakistani military hospital on 10-11 September. This coincides with other authors who have suggested that 9-11 was originally intended to be a nuclear event, and was, by agreement between the Bush Administration and the Pakistani government, "downgraded" to a controlled hijacking.

The author is courageous and on point when he suggests that we now have war criminals in office who have the temerity to decide who is a terrorist and who is a criminal. As the author's work implies, Dick Cheney is right up there with Henry Kissinger in terms of actions against international law that could warrant his being extradicted to stand trial before the Tribunal.

The author also makes useful points--in harmony with other authors now emergent--to the effect that the drug crop in Afghanistan is essential to Wall Street and the international banks, and is fully the equal of oil trade in its importance to international speculators and economic power brokers.

There are some disconcerting errors within the book, for example, the author states that the budget of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is $30 billion a year, when anyone who follows the U.S. Intelligence Community knows that this was at the time the TOTAL budget for all the secret agencies, with CIA receiving roughly one tenth of the total. Today the budget is close to $60 billion, CIA is a disaster area, and America is no safer.

Overall the author focuses primarily on the CIA as the source of all evil, and completely neglects both the FBI, whose incompetence or collaboration were essential to both World Trade Center attacks (the car bomb, and then the airplane attacks), and he also tends to neglect, for lack of understanding, any mention of the Saudi Arabian private intelligence network that displaced CIA long ago, as well as the private global murder network (see my review of Joseph Trento, "Prelude to Terror: The Rogue CIA."

There is a very clear pattern emerging in the broader literature that suggests that the Bush Administration is impeachable, and that the Clinton Administration before it is also impeachable, for a deliberate neglect of reasoned energy policy, and a deliberate nurturing of economic policies that enrich a few at the expense of both the home country middle class, and the billions around the world who are being driven to terrorism and insurgency by predatory immoral practices pursued by the U.S. Government in partnership with selected multinational corporations, many of which are fronts for importing impoverished illegal workers to the US, and destructively under-priced Chinese goods to the US marketplace--goods that destroy the local ecnomies.

I will end with a complement to the author: he offers and interesting combination of Chomsky and Sachs, a balance between deep critical commentary and deep scholarship. He speaks truth to power. His work merits our attention.

See also, with reviews:
Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency
Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It
Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil
Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids
Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics and Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory
9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA, Fourth Edition
The Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future - and What It Will Take to Win It Back

Michel Chossudovsky's book is, to this day, an important source of information to be able to understand what is really going on in Iraq and Afghanistan. This work is obviously the result of a tremendous amount of research. Chossudovsky succeeds at tracking government sources and analysing mainstream media discourse to debunk one of the biggest lies of the twentieth century.

Chossudovski has gathered a tremendous body of literature to make his case against America's mythological war on terrorism.

Creating a myth is essential to manufacture consent and unity. Fear is more essential to manipulate the herd and take away their natural rights. Chossudovsky elucidates America's war on terrorism with overwhelming evidence that would leave the reader angry and flabbergasted.

This book is a must read for every citizen who is concerned about his country's affairs, and for every critical thinker who cares about the truth.

Apparently, Professor Michel Chossudovsky was the subject several years ago of a vicious attack by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. It seems that there had been material on a web site associated with Dr. Chossudovsky suggesting the possibility that there may have been Israeli involvement in the tragedy of "911". Notably, it also seems that Dr. Chossudovsky did not himself author said material. But the existence of this material associated with a public figure like Chossudovsky was enough for the ADL, which operates pretty much like the old Stalinist secret police. Chossudovsky was silenced. And we can see in reading his otherwise noteworthy book that this experience has weighed heavily on him since. Specifically policed out of this account is any mention whatsoever of Zionism, Israel, or the conflict in the Middle East, which is absolutely essential to understanding the black operation known as the American "War on Terror".

This book is deeply tarnished by the factors noted above. To its credit, the book does accurately depict CIA involvement in the creation of the enigmatic figure known to the world as Osama Bin Laden. And, like his colleagues at Global Research, Dr. Chossudovsky attributes much of the world's current woes to competition over naturual resources, such as petroleum and natural gas. No doubt, this explains some things. But it is equally certain that all is not explained by these factors. When Dr. Chossudovsky chose, due evidently to the previously mentioned harsh experience, to police out of his account the factors most dispositive of America's "War on Terrorism", he tragically compromised his effort. The writing is good. And the book is otherwise well done. But this calls to mind the story told about the man talking to Mary Todd Lincoln after the assassination of her husband at the Ford Theatre, which occured during the rendition of the play, "Our American Cousins":

"Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?"

In short, the book is sanitized and compromised. We cannot therefore honestly recommend it to those who would understand this very important subject. While we can certainly under Dr. Chossudovsky's position on this, we cannot commend it.

Michel Chossudovsky has been one of my favorite writers on issues like globalization and the bogus "war o'terror" for some time now. He elegantly documents his meticulous research simply and without sensationalized embellishment. Unlike many other writers, Chossudovsky isn't attempting to entertain you or sell books; rather, he is delineating critical information in a lucid and precise fashion that will make sense for even the most casual reader.

While I personally didn't necessarily glean a great deal of strikingly new information of which I wasn't at least partially previously aware, this book certainly helped me to put the puzzle pieces together and frame a better glimpse of the larger picture, outside of the perception management. It was nice to see this volume tie up loose ends and illustrate a time line of sorts. This is an especially great book for a new student of this topic.

Many of the facts mentioned in the book I knew already, but it was for the first time when my conclusions and assumptions were supported by facts, names and figures.

America's war on terrorism is a brilliant book. Professor Chossudovsky has done a good job , a lot of research and he is a very well documented and informed writter.. He explains in detail the evil of those in power who have lied and deceaved not only the American people but the whole world. The evil of the empire who has forced its hegemony not only in South East Asia in the infamous Viet Nam war during the kennedy-Johnson regimes but also in South and Central America in the Regan years and has continued unbridled making wars in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Balkan States, the Middle East and continues intimidating the ones who oppose to its dominance and hegemony by using its military might.
However Mr. Chossudovsky fails to reveal the real causes and the criminals who are behind all this mess and are responsible for all the conflicts that are destroying the very fabric of the American democracy and economy.
He keeps mentioning the ICI (Pakistan Military Intelligence) and every body else as the ones who were behind 9/11. He blames the Bush Administration, the State Department, the Anglo American Oil Giants, Wall Street, the powerful media giants and the Washington think tanks operating discretely behind the scenes but he deliberately fails to mention the work of Israel in the United States through the Zionist Power Configuration in high ranking positions in the US governmet who work as a transmission belt from Tel Aviv to Washington.
Prior to 9/11 powerful officials in the Pentagon like Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Pearle, Elliot Abrams, Douglas Feith (All of them Zionist Jews) who were cought stealing and passing top secret documents to Israel. Douglas Faith created "The Office of Special Plans" who fabricated the false information for the Iraq war.
When the Pentagon offices are flooded, like a crowded bordello on Saturday night with Israeli intelligence officers, crowding out even members of their own Pentagon staff full of Mossad agents, full of Israeli generals consulting day by day, hour by hour in the making of Iraq policy and this is very well documented a hundred times.
There is overwhelming evidence that American and Israel officials didn't just have foreknowledge of the event, but planned the attack and carried it out. It was Mossad-CIA false flag used to protect the Zionist entity from any future military threat and expand the parasitic hegemony of the illegitimate Tel viv regime throughout the world via Zionist inspired "war on terror".
All these wars in the Middle East and Central Asia were done to favor Israel supremacy, hegemony, dominance and expansionism in the Middle East and to take out of the picture Saddam Hussein a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause, with the money and blood of the American people.
Read "the Power of Israel in the United States" by James Petras. There are many other books on the subject, videos, conferences etc.....

I won't bother to write a long detailed review,because on my last attempt it was mysteriously deleted.Nor will I attempt to cover the whole theme of Chossudovsky's book.The most shocking revelation for me was the strong evidence presented in Chapter XV1, 'The Spoils of War:Afghanistan's Multi billion Dollar Heroin Trade'.Professor Chossudovsky provides tables and statistics which indicate that the Heroin Trade is the third most profitable commodity in Global trade, only exceeded by oil and timber production.This trade is sponsored by powerful interests who operate through proxies. The proceeds of this trade are laundered through the Banks and are worth something like 90 billion a year.Those proceeds are then used to finance legitimate businesses.This is only the tip-of-the iceberg as it were.Read this book for yourself,and you will realise,that if Chossudovsky's thesis is correct, those in power are ultimately criminal. And the evil which calls itself,among other names, the C.I.A. has,as its agenda,according to Professor Chossudovsky,
the expansion and extension of " The American Empire." There are of course many more topics such as 9/11;HAARP,the connection with the Bin Ladens and the Bushes.The New World Order and much more.This book is well researched,and can be supported by checking notes and references.Altogether a highly creditable and well documented book.Reading it will change the way one sees the world.