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Video: The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear
By Written and produced by Adam Curtis
BBC. Armchair Subversive; You Tube Video
Monday, Aug 6, 2007

Editor's Note: This 3-hour, BBC documentary shows that the "threat of terrorism" is to a very large extent, "a fantasy manufactured by politicians, national security profiteers and Islamic terrorists in order to project and consolidate their own political power". The documentary reveals the origins of the "war on terrorism" in the Reagan Administration under the influence of Neocons like Michael Ledeen and their ally, former CIA Chief, William Casey. The two videos below offer a taste of the entire documentary which is linked below the following brief video excerpts. - LMB

Video Excerpts

Video: Interview of Melvin Goodman, Head of Office of Soviet Affairs, 1976-1987: "The CIA's chief of Soviet affairs from 1976 to 1987 admits Ronald Reagan had nothing to do with the downfall of the Soviet Union".

Video: CIA admits that "lies became reality" while hyping the Soviet threat. (includes Michael Ledeen, pro-war neocon, and his argument installing "democracy" by force in other sovereign nations. Melvin Goodman describes the beginning of the mythological "war on terror" under Ronald Reagan.)

See the entire 3 part, 3 hour BBC documentary
at the links below: 

Part One: Baby It's Cold Outside

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Part Two: The Phantom Victory

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Part Three: The Shadows in the Cave

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Articles on Hyping Terror

Hyping Terror For Fun, Profit - And Power
by Thom Hartmann


The Myth of an al Qaeda Takeover of Iraq
by Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Institute


Everyone we fight in Iraq is now "al-Qaida"
by Glenn Greenwald

http://www.armchairsubversive.org/nmares.html