"What could possibly motivate the propping up of repressive non-democracies like the Saudi and Kuwaiti royal families or murderous regimes like that of Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Iran? Or pouring billions into the coffers of Saddam Hussein in the '80s, or even creating the monster who is the mastermind of these attacks, Osama Bin Laden, beneficiary of CIA lucre and training?"
It's the oil, stupid

Oil War II: The Empire Strikes Back in the Caspian
Caspian Oil and Gas and the Afghanistan Pipeline Connection

If you're going to be pro-war, at least be sarcastic about it!

An excellent point-by-point comparison of the police-state legislation designed to demolish civil-liberties.

Disturbing portents for freedom from the US Supreme Court.

chequerboard of oil and minefields

The Empire Strikes Back

Metaphor and War makes explicit the myths and assumptions of the public perceptions of war.
It is the skillful manipulation of these myths and assumptions that makes for effective propaganda.

Oppressive regimes in the Middle East propped up by the US.

Doctors Without Borders calls US food drops "propaganda"

The Cave is a Lovecraftian story I wrote back in 1989, for a freshman college English class.

Is massive starvation and death in Afghanistan inevitable?

Into the valleys of death
Insight in to the roles of Pakistan and the United Front (Northern Alliance).

The US government had plans to commit terrorist acts against America itself and blame a politically convenient enemy.

On the use of the word "terrorist" in the media.

"It is a sobering thought, that better evidence is required to prosecute a shoplifter than is needed to commence a world war"
Tony Blair releases allegations against Bin Laden and calls them "evidence". Apparently the public isn't supposed to know the difference, or care.
Commentary, more commentary, and yet more commentary on the flimsy allegations.

Testimony of civil liberties defenders censored, and even the presense of censorship was censored.

"This may be the first war where an American reporter is killed or garroted by a Green Beret for getting in the way." --The Return of Censorship

'Mainstream journalists in the United States often function more like a fourth branch of government than a feisty fourth estate. If anything, the patterns of media bias that characterize sycophantic reporting in "peacetime" are amplified during a war or a national security crisis." --13 Questions for Bush about America's Anti-terrorism Crusade

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