The War on Terror : Propaganda and Reality - What the War on Terror is really about and what it really involves

Contents

(chapters with no links haven't been uploaded yet)

• Introduction - Neither Crusade against Islam nor Fight for Freedom, Neither right nor entirely wrong - because reality is never a simple struggle of good vs evil, or right vs wrong

• Chapter 1) - 1939 All Over Again? : The ways the war on terror is and isn’t like World War Two
• - a) ‘No Rivals’ : The drive for global hegemony progressing from the Caspian to the Middle East and Africa
• - b) Paranoid Delusions - No alliance of all our enemies – then or now
• - c) ‘Freedom’ for big firms and banks as a cause of war : Mass unemployment and poverty (caused by sanctions, military occupation and excessive deregulation of markets) as a cause of violent and extreme ideologies/ the myth of ‘reconstruction’

• Chapter 2) The New Great Game : From Macedonia and Afghanistan to Chechnya
• a) The New Great Game Part I : From Macedonia to Afghanistan and Chechnya
• b) Once they were friends : The Taliban and the US government (not finished or uploaded yet)

• Chapter 3) Sweeping it all up : From Iraq and Iran to Somalia
• a) Sweeping it all up: Expanding the "war on terror" to secure Iraq's oil reserves
• b) Re-opening the old Iraq to Haifa and Tripoli pipelines : Israel - Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and oil and gas exports
• c) De Ja Vu for Iraqis and Iranians : Colonial Oil Wars and Client Governments Dressed up as "Liberation" All Over Again
• d) ‘Worse than Darfur’ : The War on Terror in Somalia
• f) The method in the Circle of Madness

• Chapter 8) Willful Mass Delusion / The Risks of Action - Why it’s not about Iraqi ‘WMDs’and why the potential nuclear threat from Iran is likely to be deterred, just as Saddam's was when did have WMDs

• Chapter 9) Get Sadr : The War for the Oil Law - Al Sadr, the Medhi army and the war over the distribution of Iraq’s oil revenues between foreign firms and the growing ranks of unemployed, poor and hungry Iraqis

• Chapter 10) How to weaken Al Qa’ida : by ending our governments’ support for the major causes of it - dictatorships, wars and military occupations

• Chapter 11) Words and Actions - How to Deal with the Iranian nuclear issue : There are six options on how to respond to the possibility of Iran getting nuclear weapons and the fear of them being used on Israel if it does develop them - but only one viable one (This is just a blog post at the moment but i'll make a website article of it in the next few days to a week with a set of content index links, clickable source notes etc)