Operation Northwoods
Documents how our military and intelligence leaders think providing clear evidence of how certain rogue elements in the US government have conspired not only to manipulate public opinion, but even to kill innocent Americans for the purpose of forwarding their war agenda.  Ironically this covers 1962...not 2002.  Seems some in our government do learn from history.
Official Government Report PDF: FREE

The Bushiad & the Idyossey
The Epic Battle of Testosterone Circa 2003

SATIRE: As vividly described 2,500 years ago in Homer's epic poems of the battle of Troy and the struggle of one warrior to return home The Iliad and The Odyssey, war is the product of powerful, ambitious, often insecure men who have difficulty separating their personal motivations from those of the state. In Homer's works, these conflicts are fomented, aided and abetted by powerful immortal gods who use mortals to satisfy their needs, and who work behind the scenes to fix events and outcomes. As war occurs, the "honor" of battle is always at great cost in lives and suffering. FREE:
By Victor Little Bear

Henry David Thoreau's
Civil Disobedience

Seldom mentioned with-out the obligatory reference to Gandhi and King, Civil Disobedience has more history than many suspect. In occupied Denmark in the 1940's it was read by the Danish resistance, in the 1950's it was cherished by people who opposed McCarthyism, in the 1960's it was influential in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, and in the 1970's it was discovered by a new generation of anti-war activists. The lesson learned from all this experience is that Thoreau's ideas really do work, just as he imagined they would.
$1.50 AMAZON

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Responses
to 9/11

Two days after the World Trade Center disaster, we asked some of our authors and friends to share their thoughts and feelings on 9/11. Here are com-muniqués we found helpful, from Russell Banks, Assia Djebar, Alice Walker, and Howard Zinn, as well as an interview with Noam Chomsky that was broadcast on Radio B92 Belgrade.

FREE:
7 Stories Press
 

The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq

The first book to hold the president and his team accountable for the government's campaign of disinformation leading up to the war in Iraq. The administration repeatedly attested that Saddam Hussein had developed weapons of mass destruction and was close to using them; downplayed the cost and risk of the proposed invasion and occupation; shamelessly evoked the atrocious abuse of power of Hussein and his family,  substanceless theory linking Saddam Hussein to the attacks of September 11, thereby cynically manipulating the anger and sorrow of the American citizenry.

$9.95 AMAZON

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace

Never shy about expressing his opinion, Vidal questions U.S. assumptions regarding the Oklahoma City and World Trade Center bombings: "That our ruling junta might have seriously provoked McVeigh and Osama was never dealt with." His critique of the coverage of September 11 is slim, mostly centering on already reported truisms about why many in the Muslim world sympathize in some way with Osama bin Laden. Some readers, however, will share his unease with the willingness on the part of the American government and the American people to put concerns for civil liberties on the back burner during the war on terrorism. $8.00 AMAZON

Censored 2004

highlights the year's twenty-five most important underreported news stories, alerting readers to deficiencies in corporate media. This year's edition features a chapter on the public relations industry in the U.S. and its effect on the media. Robin Andersen, professor at Fordham University and Censored judge, contributes a chapter on censorship in times of war. Censored 2004 also includes an essay by Norman Solomon, a chapter on the monitoring of domestic censorship from FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), and a chapter on international monitoring from the International Index on Censorship. Censored 2004 includes a resource guide and updates on independent media outlets.
$12.57 AMAZON TOP

Silencing Political Dissent
How Post-September 11
Anti-Terrorism Measures Threaten Our Civil Liberties

Just six weeks after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Congress overwhelmingly approved the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act, better known by its acronym, the USA Patriot Act. This hastily-drafted, complex, and far-reaching legislation spans 342 pages. Yet it was passed with virtually no public hearing or debate and was accompanied by neither a conference nor a committee report. This timely and lucid analysis examines how the new law endows the executive branch with vast unchecked powers, erodes civil liberties and privacy, and impacts immigrants.
$9.95 Amazon
 

Information War:
American Propaganda, Free Speech, and Opinion Control Since 9/11

Immediately after September 11, Bush administration officials met with Hollywood executives to coordinate efforts to bolster the U.S. military in films, public service announcements, and sponsored discus-sions on security John Poindexter, a convicted perjurer who supervised the illegal Iran-Contra deals, was appointed to lead the Department of Defense’s new “Information Awareness Office, National Security Directives mandate the use of information warfare techniques to disrupt and sabotage critics of Bush’s policies.

In Information War, Snow lays out the propaganda techniques that the government uses to control dissent in the twenty-first century. $9.95 AMAZON

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They Dare to Speak Out

THIS IS A MUST READ: Paul Findley was a congressman from 1961 to 1983, representing the state of Illinois and serving as a senior member of the House Middle East Committee. They Dare to Speak out is the first book to speak out against the pervasive influence of the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on American politics, policy, and institutions resonates today as never before. With careful documentation and specific case histories, former congressman Paul Findley demonstrates how the Israel lobby helps to shape important aspects of U.S. foreign policy and influences congressional, senatorial, and even presidential elections. Described are the undue influence AIPAC exerts in the Senate and the House and the pressure AIPAC brings to bear on university professors and journalists who seem too sympathetic to Arab and Islamic states and too critical of Israel and its policies.
$13.27 AMAZON
 

The Oh Really Factor
Unspinning Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly

Peter Hart runs down a laundry list of 'conservative' positions O'Reilly proudly holds and calls him out for 'failing to deliver' when he sets out to assail the right.

Hart scores the most points by pointing out O'Reilly's double standard when it comes to facts versus opinions. 'As I explained a gazillion times, this is a news analysis program which is driven by opinion,'Hart quotes him from 1999. Yet when his guests confront him with an uncomfortable set of facts, O'Reilly likes to retort, 'That's your opinion!'

Hart writes: 'Of course, there's nothing wrong with being a conservative commentator. The problem is when you're disingenuous about your politics and twist the facts to suit them. If it's spin to back up your arguments with bogus facts and statistics, and to dismiss numbers that don't fit in with your preconceptions, then 'The O'Reilly Factor' isn't a 'no-spin zone.' It's Spin City.'"
—By Jeff Dufour, The Hill, The Newspaper for and about the U.S. Congress 
$8.95 AMAZON

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The Carnegie Report on Iraq's WMD
PDF
 

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Rebuilding America's Defense:
The Sept. 2000 Report by the PNAC outlining our current  'War on Terror' (PDF)
 

The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance

"The Constitution," said Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia ominously in March 2003, "just sets minimums. In The War on the Bill of Rights-and the Gathering Resi-stance, nationally syndi-cated columnist and Village Voice mainstay Nat Hentoff draws on untapped sources-from reporters, resisters, and civil liberties law professors across the country to administration insiders-to piece together the true dimensions of the current assault on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The first draft of the USA PATRIOT Act to go to Congress included the suspension of habeas corpus. The proposed sequel (PATRIOT Act II) would make it possible to revoke U.S. citizenship, and, for the first time in history, authorize secret arrests. Both PATRIOT Acts increase electronic surveillance of Americans, with minimal judicial supervision. Hentoff refocuses attention on domestic surveillance initiatives established by unilateral executive actions, such as Operation TIPS and the Total Information Awareness System (now renaned Terrorist Information Awareness. with not other changes to it's functions or intent), both still quietly functioning. $12.60 AMAZON
 

Selling Homosexuality in America
How the American Public has been Spun
PDF: FREE

50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know
 

Body of Secrets Anatomy of the
Ultra-Secret National Security Agency
by James Bamford
 

In Body of Secrets, Bamford throws much more light on his subject--and he reveals loads of shocking information. The story of the U-2 crisis in 1960 is well known, including President Eisen-hower's decision to tell a fib to the public in order to protect a national security secret. Bamford takes the story a disturbing step forward, showing how Eisenhower "went so far as to order his Cabinet officers to hide his involvement in the scandal even while under oath. $10.47 Amazon

Operation Cyanide:

How the Bombing of the USS Liberty Nearly Caused World War III

Peter Hounam was the chief investigative journalist for London's The Sunday Times from 1986 to 1994. He is the author of The Woman from Mossad. this book takes a look at the USS Liberty attack from an Investigative Journalism stance and includes an in-depth look from both the US & Israeli perspective from veteran British journalists Peter Hounam and John Simpson. $17.47 Amazon

A Pretext for War
 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies
by JAMES BAMFORD

$18.33 AMAZON

THIS IS A MUST READ: Once ordered banned in the US by a Judge under pressure from the Mossad. Intelligence agencies should never try to ban books about themselves. Like Peter Wright's Spycatcher (Penguin USA, 1987), which was suppressed in Britain , this book on Israel's legendary spy organization by a former Mossad katsa or case officer has ended up on the New York Times best seller list. Among the controversial revelations that led Israel to seek a ban (which was quickly overturned in the United States and Canada) is Ostrovsky's charge that the Mossad refused to share knowledge of a planned suicide mission in Beirut, resulting in the deaths of 241 U.S. Marines in 1983.
AMAZON $24.95

Terror Enigma: 9/11 And the Israeli Connection

With information culled from mainstream sources, author Justin Raimondo shows in this eye-opening book that IsraelÂ’s spies in the United States had been watching the 9/11 terrorists. As the terrorists were planning the biggest and deadliest terrorist attack in American history, Israeli agents in the U.S. were watching them 24/7 – living literally next door to Mohammed Atta, according to one account.

Did Israeli intelligence have foreknowledge of 9/11?
As one law enforcement source close to the investigation told Fox News, the real question is: how could they not have known?
But if they knew, then why didn’t they tell us?
 

The Jews
of Iraq

True story of the creation of the state of Israel by one who lived it.
PDF-FREE

Unreported stories including the assassin-ation attempt on the life of President George W. Bush on the morning of September 11, 2001, and the rampant drug-trafficking of the financier behind the flight school the terrorist pilots attended are fully discussed, with attention to the stunning evidence that the CIA was aware that hundreds of Arab flight students were pouring into southwest Florida. This examination of the conspiracy behind the 9/11 investigation and the CIA complicity in the illegal activities that allowed the known terrorists' activities to continue offers truth behind the "official" story of the attacks.
 

Stranger than Fiction:
An Independent Investigation of 9-11 Compiled from multiple news stories around the world.  (Language is harsh in this but the facts and history are 100% on target though definitely not politically correct)
FREE
 

DVD:
9/11 In
Plane Site
 

DVD:
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear And The Selling Of American Empire