On 10/28/2015 08:19 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Blog by Adam Curtis, THE BABY AND THE BAATH WATER > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/d3921cac-2144-306a-9f6e-712c0c685010 >
Curtis is also responsible for "The Power Of Nightmares" BBC documentary. His hypothesis is the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaeda, and the Neocons all have common roots in the lecture hall and philosophy of Leo Strauss. > THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES > > Three part series > I: Baby It's Cold Outside > II: The Phantom Victory > III: The Shadows In The Cave > > Tuesday, 18 January, 2005 2320 GMT on BBC Two > > Available @Archive.org: > https://archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares-Episode1BabyItsColdOutside > > Should we be worried about the threat from organised terrorism or is > it simply a phantom menace being used to stop society from falling apart? > > In the past our politicians offered us dreams of a better world. Now > they promise to protect us from nightmares. > > The most frightening of these is the threat of an international terror > network. But just as the dreams were not true, neither are these > nightmares. > > In a new series, the Power of Nightmares explores how the idea that we > are threatened by a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion. > > It is a myth that has spread unquestioned through politics, the > security services and the international media. > > At the heart of the story are two groups: the American > neo-conservatives and the radical Islamists. > > Both were idealists who were born out of the failure of the liberal > dream to build a better world. > > These two groups have changed the world but not in the way either > intended. > > Together they created today's nightmare vision of an organised terror > network. > > A fantasy that politicians then found restored their power and > authority in a disillusioned age. Those with the darkest fears became > the most powerful. > > The rise of the politics of fear begins in 1949 with two men whose > radical ideas would inspire the attack of 9/11 and influence the > neo-conservative movement that dominates Washington. > > Both these men believed that modern liberal freedoms were eroding the > bonds that held society together. > > The two movements they inspired set out, in their different ways, to > rescue their societies from this decay. But in an age of growing > disillusion with politics, the neo-conservatives turned to fear in > order to pursue their vision. > > They would create a hidden network of evil run by the Soviet Union > that only they could see. > > The Islamists were faced by the refusal of the masses to follow their > dream and began to turn to terror to force the people to "see the truth"'. > > The Power of Nightmares will be broadcast over three nights from > Tuesday 18 to Thursday, 20 January, 2005 at 2320 GMT on BBC Two. The > final part has been updated in the wake of the Law Lords ruling in > December that detaining foreign terrorist suspects without trial was > illegal. > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/programmes/3755686.stm > > On 29/10/2015 12:09, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> This is getting embarrassing for "the West" - the so called moral high >> ground of the West, never existed. Even Hiroshima and Nagasaki were >> bombed -after- Japan had surrendered, just that America insisted on >> humiliation of unconditional surrender. >> >> http://russia-insider.com/en/documents-reveal-west-plotted-false-flag-justify-war-against-syria-1957/ri10799 >> " >> In 1957, it was PG-13 “border clashes”. Now we have “government >> chemical weapons attacks against orphans” >> " >> >> I wonder where our CIA apologists are now ... >> Z >> >> >
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