9/11 books
The Shell Game
by Steve Alten (2008)
a novel about Peak Oil and the next 9/11
The book has a lot of good info in it. It's far from perfect, but better than what I expected. It's definitely not what I would write. Perhaps it will reach a wide audience. Perhaps it will be snared by the large amount of junk on the Shell Game website (links to websites promoting false claims about 9/11). The website promoting The Shell Game mixes together most of the best 9/11 websites with a lot of websites promoting nonsense.
It does get the point that 9/11 was allowed to happen and given technical assistance to ensure that it did happen, and points out the key role of the war games.
It's one of the very few 9/11 anything efforts to tie together 9/11 and Peak Oil - something that most 9/11 truthers and most people aware of Peak Oil don't want to do.
The Shell Game states explicitly it is largely based on Crossing the Rubicon by Michael Ruppert - one of the very few books on 9/11 that made any effort to do verifiable research - and it's why the peddlers of the scientology type claims attacked him so much (the empire wants to keep the 9/11 and the Peak Oil aware people separate and unaware of each other's best work).
There are 9/11 truth movement people who are upset that it avoids the demolition theories and focuses instead on the war games, stating that the 9/11 Commission dismissed the war game issue so therefore it shouldn't be highlighted. While it is true that the 9/11 Commission did mention (sort of) a war game, they definitely did not mention them in any detail. No mention of the "plane into building" exercise. No mention of the suppressed investigations into flight schools. No mention of the multiple warnings from US allies about what, when, where the "attacks" would happen.
The most important part of the 9/11 story is not the buildings falling down after being smacked by a heavy object traveling close to the speed of sound, but the decisions made to intentionally allow them to happen in order to justify wars to control the oil fields as we pass Peak Oil. It would be nice to see 9/11 "truth" play a role in social change, but given the massive media counterattack and association of "truth" with the nuttiest claims it seems unlikely that "truth" about 9/11 will lead to positive social change. And 9/11 was in the past, while Peak Oil will shape the future. They are inseparable, but perhaps it's best to understand what happened to the truth movement since similar tactics are being used against understanding environmental limits and problems.
As for the criticism that the book avoids demolition theories, that is a plus in many ways, although the shell game website links to lots of websites promoting this. If there was truth to the demolition claim, it would be unlikely that the corporate (and alternative) media would claim that this was the key aspect to the 9/11 counter narrative. Arguing about this claim, however, is likely to be similar to the arguments for decades arguing what types of bullets were used in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963 - with the exact same result (the conspiracy people marginalized with little impact on the broader society).
It is interesting that there was never any real effort to peer review the demolition claims, even the best of them, and there are some serious problems with this perspective - but those problems are probably moot at this point.
Summary: Shell Game is OK, not perfect, could use a much better website / promotional campaign. It's unfortunate that the best efforts in the 9/11 truth and the Peak Oil awareness efforts have been kept separate. The real goal is to use these awarenesses to figure out how we all - 6 and a half billion of us - can use the remaining oil for transformation to a peaceful civilization.
Fighting for GOD (Gold, Oil and Drugs)
by Jeremy Begin and Lauren Salk
a comic book about 9/11 Trine
Day press |
The Big Wedding: 9/11, The Whistleblowers and
the Cover-Up
by Sander Hicks
www.drenchkiss.com/whistleblowers.html
9/11 was allowed to happen by Bush’s
architects of death.
Every five years or so comes the kind of book that is likely to
lead to the resignation and impeachment of senior White House officials.
In March, Vox Pop will publish such a book: The Big Wedding: 9/11, The
Whistleblowers, and the Cover-Up by Sander Hicks, the gutsy investigative
journalist and "punk of publishing" who started Soft Skull Press
and Vox Pop.
With original research and interviews, The Big Wedding provides a
new level of proof that Bush's advisors had detailed foreknowledge of
9/11. The book dispenses with the hypothetical and the realm of maybe.
It attacks the kooky conspiracy theories, like "no-plane-hit-the-Pentagon,"
which distract from certain suppressed historical truths: the CIA has
had a controlling, client relationship with the powerful Pakistani intelligence
group, ISI. The ISI has proven links to 9/11; they were key funders, trainers,
and supporters. Therefore, it's impossible that the CIA and White House
didn't have detailed foreknowledge of 9/11
Hicks provides details from the Iran/Contra and Bank of Credit and Commerce
International scandals that aid our understanding of the global political
struggle and the secret history that never makes its way onto corporate
media outlets. BCCI, like 9/11, involved black market global capital,
the Bush family, the Pakistanis, and the CIA. An overview of the literature
on BCCI, as well as all other 9/11 books, is a big feature of Big Wedding.
Hicks also relates personal details: his intimacy with Bush biographer
Jim Hatfield, and the secrets Jim took to his grave in July 2001. For
the first time, Hicks tells the story of his personal recruitment by the
CIA, and why he rebuffed the offer. This story is evident of one thing:
Hicks must be onto something.
(note: Hicks has shifted from pointing out that some of the 9/11 claims are false toward a position of promoting some of the worst nonsense claims. It's hard to find a rational and sincere explanation for publishing a book admitting the "no plane" stuff is false and then going on to promote events with its adherents.) |
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Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush
Junta
by Gore Vidal
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recommended: 9/11 books promoting false claims |
9/11 Revealed: The Unanswered Questions
by Rowland Morgan and Ian Henshell
http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/911revealed/index.html
Revealed OR Concealed?
A Critical Review of 9/11 Revealed
by Victoria Ashley and Jim Hoffman
9/11 Revealed is impressively packaged. It has 253 pages with scores
of color photographs, and sophisticated graphic design. The writing
is dramatic. It has a broad scope, and appears to cover most of the
challenges to the official story of the 9/11/01 attack.
The book pretends to speak for the 9/11 Truth Movement. It is written
in the third person, and presents most challenges as things that "9/11
skeptics" or "Nine/Eleven skeptics" say. The undiscerning
reader is likely to think that the book represents the work of the community
of serious independent investigators working to expose the truth about
the attack. Finding that the book fails to make a strong case that the
attack was the work of insiders, the reader may conclude, incorrectly,
that investigators have failed to make a compelling case.
In essence 9/11 Revealed is a slick package designed to sell the numerous
hoaxes that have long been used to marginalize the 9/11 Truth Movement
as nothing but a bunch of loony conspiracy theorists lacking the critical
thinking skills necessary to correctly evaluate evidence.
The US State Department is promoting this book as an example of disinformation
regarding 9/11, which will probably boost its popularity among those who
don't buy the official story, further cementing in place many of the fake
memes that pollute real evidence. The government's page is at
http://usinfo.state.gov/media/Archive/2005/Sep/16-241966.html
Alternet (a "left gatekeeper" website that published attacks
on Mike Ruppert in early 2002) cites 9/11 Revealed as representative of
all claims of complicity, but avoids the best evidence. It is odd that
this book is cited as one of the "Books We Like" considering
their avoidance of Crossing the Rubicon, The Terror Timeline and other
excellent publications. http://alternet.bookswelike.net/isbn/0786716134
www.alternet.org/story/31740/
Decoding the Secrets of JFK and 9/11
By G. Pascal Zachary, AlterNet. Posted February 3, 2006.
There are of course many puzzling circumstances surrounding the 9/11
attacks, virtually all of them compiled and analyzed in a recent book
by two British authors, "9/11 Revealed: The Unanswered Questions."
In their skillful survey of "alternative scenarios," Rowland
Morgan and Ian Henshall sow many doubts about the official version of
9/11. How did so many of the hijackers gain valid entry into the U.S?
Why were they so free to operate? Why were the country's air defenses
not triggered after the hijacked planes veered off course? In what ways
did the Pakistani and Saudi governments assist the hijackers? Were the
hijackers in the U.S. for another purpose and then double-crossed their
U.S. sponsors in a classic, if horrible, case of blowback?
While these and other questions raise doubts about the official version
of 9/11, they don't yet add up to a persuasive counterconspiracy
theory.
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9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA
by Webster Tarpley
A good analysis of false flag operations and how the war games were used
to ensure the success of 9/11 -- from a writer who was part of the Lyndon
LaRouche political cult.
Not so good on the issues of Peak Oil and
the "no plane at the Pentagon" hoax.
Tarpley dismisses the idea that natural ecological limitations impact
the functioning of civilization, and supports the "no plane"
claim. As always, the most important issue surrounding Peak Oil is how
to use the remaining oil for global relocalization of production and
as much renewable energy equipment as possible -- something that a narrow
ideological analysis conveniently ignores. The LaRouche organization has
been consistently anti-environmental, promoting toxic technologies such
as nuclear power and food irradiation - so it's not a surprise that they
deny the reality of finite fossil fuels.
from the book:
"Monocausal explanations embraced by corporate elites, such as
the Hubbert “peak oil” thesis, are also unsatisfactory,
since we are dealing not with geological events per se, but rather with
the breakdown crisis of a political economy.
OLIGARCHICAL MALTHUSIANISM THEN AND NOW
From 9/11 to “peak oil” is a dangerous leap, and from “peak
oil” to population reduction is more dangerous still. Because
oligarchs have always held humanity in general in contempt, they have
from time immemorial exhibited the outlook which has, during the last
200 years, been called Malthusian."
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Inside Job by Jim Marrs
"Inside Job" has some of the best pieces of
evidence, but it also has claims that would not pass peer review. There
does not appear to be anything original in the book (in terms of evidence)
that has not appeared elsewhere (either in book form or on a website).
The chapter on the Pentagon crash is almost
entirely wrong (the "Pentagate" book was a hoax, Rumsfeld's
Oct 2001 "missile" quote was only bait to snare the skeptics
into believing untruths -- the trap was sprung in Parade Magazine last
September. It ignores the fact the Pentagon was hit in the empty
part in "Inside Job" - the ONLY so-called physical evidence
that nobody contests (and many of the no-plane-theorists ignore).
The footnote citing "Jerry
Russell" as a primary source is unfortunate given Mr. Russell's
support for Holocaust Denial and the "pod"
nonsense. Fortunately, Mr. Russell has retracted some of his speculations.
Inside Job cites Department of the Navy employee Barbara Honneger as the
primary analyst of the significance of the 9/11 war games.Ms. Honneger
gave a presentation at the "Los Angeles Grand Jury" event in
October 2004 that claimed that "shoe bomber" Richard Reid was
really Osama - which is not something to take seriously. Michael Ruppert's
research on the war games makes more sense.
It includes the "building 6 / explosion at ground level" hoax
(which Jim Hoffman has nicely debunked)
- p. 36 -- and then includes several "theories" that muddy the
waters - p. 37 claims there's a theory that the towers were pre-wired
with demolition charges upon construction, or after the 1993 attack. Did
this "theory" originate in the same psyops lab that invented
the "pod" claim?
A book that cites "American Free Press" (a Holocaust
Denial publication) repeatedly as a primary source is not the best
work from the 9/11 truth movement. |
Painful Questions by Eric Hufschmid
The author's websites www.hugequestions.com and question911.com
promote hoax websites regarding 9/11 complicity
issues. Mr. Hufschmid also promotes "no
moon landing" and Holocaust denial which has caused some 9/11 skeptics to wonder if
it is an effort to discredit by association.
Hufschmid's defense of his views against the evidence that a large jet
really did hit the Pentagon is at
http://home.planet.nl/~reijd050/2005_email_conversation_with_Hufschmid.htm |
9/11: The Great Illusion - End Game of the Illuminati,
Our Choice: Fear or Love? by George Humphrey
This book uses some fake evidence
to buttress its assertions of complicity, referencing the neo-Nazi American
Free Press as a primary reference source (a big mistake,
if the book is sincere). One of the main places selling this pamphlet is
the "Peace Resource Project," www.peaceproject.com/books/books.htm -- a web based company that also hosts the fraudulent "Pentagon
Strike" video on its website. This booklet
is cheap and small, and therefore more attractive than the accurate but
larger and more expensive books (such as Terror Timeline and Crossing the
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The Horrifying Fraud and Pentagate
by Thierry Meyssan
911investigations.net and pentagate.info
the title cover shows the "punch out" hole created by the firefighters,
along with Boeing debris - it subtly implies
that the "hole in the Pentagon"
was too small for a 757, when in reality the damage on the outside of
the building was the width of the plane
These books are disinformation.
The first comments from Meyssan about 9/11 claimed that the Pentagon was attacked by a truck bomb - which was obviously not true. The sequel
"Le Pentagate" refined this "theory" to suggest the use
of a cruise missile - yet the photo on the front cover shows,
if you look carefully, some wreckage that analysts have identified as
Boeing debris. A bad joke hidden in plain sight.
Meyssan's first book was published around the time that "Forbidden
Truth" was published in France -- and Meyssan's wild speculation
successfully distracted from the more sober evidence in Forbidden Truth (which proved that the US had planned to invade Afghanistan in the Fall
of 2001, months before 9/11).
"The Big Lie" has supposedly been translated into 28 languages
-- making it unlikely that unraveling the genuine evidence of complicity
from the hoaxes will ever happen. It was a brilliant coup by the coverup
to distract from the one piece of "physical evidence" that no
one disputes (and few discuss) - the Pentagon was hit in the nearly
empty part of the building, which minimized casualties.
As of 2012, the BBC is broadcast in one less language than Thierry Meyssan got published in. Who has the ability to do that much translation to promote a book that has not yet sold any copies? Voice of America is in 48 languages. The Harry Potter books, which have been global best sellers, are sold in 67 languages. Meyssan sold a lot of copies but nowhere near as many as Harry Potter.
http://www.voanews.com/info/language_sites/2378.html
48 languages
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/languages/index.shtml
27 languages
Thierry Meyssan
28 languages
www.pressaction.com/news/weblog/full_article/mickeyz12062004/
Sander Hicks and the 9/11 Truth Movement
When you have a sensitive topic here, when so much political power
is involved, there's going to be a series of false reports, disinformation
put forth to obscure the real story, red herrings to throw off the dogs.
It happened in the JFK assassination, and it's happening now.
My quick analysis on how this is happening right now would be to point
out two red herrings: The Pentagon Theory and the accusations of anti-Semitism.
Paul Thompson of the 9/11 Timeline was on the Morning Sedition show
and host Mark Marin dismissed the entire 9/11 Truth website by saying,
"Oh, it's one of those sites that say no plane hit the Pentagon."
We’re being judged by our weakest link. And it is pretty weak.
You had rush hour traffic on I-395 that saw the plane hit, you
have 100 eyewitnesses compiled in the pamphlet published by Penny Schoner.
Where the hell did this theory come from? Thierry
Meyssan's book "The Horrible Fraud" was the original source.
Meyssan wrote his book from Paris, he didn’t travel over here. The book is highly imaginative, and in the middle of a trauma,
people are searching for answers. A lot of people in the 9/11 truth
movement glommed onto this one and I think
it's hurt our credibility over all. You have to wonder if that was by
design.
On November 17 and 18, 2005, Meyssan's Réseau
Voltaire organization organized a large international conference in Belgium
called "Axis for Peace." This event was a mix of leading international
experts on international law, peace and disarmament, along with some hoaxers
spreading disinformation.
In particular, Meyssan's group invited the so-called
American Free Press (whose acronym AFP causes confusion with Agence-France
Press, one of Europe's largest media entities), a neo-nazi Holocaust
Denial publication that works closely with KKK leader David Duke.
Also on the agenda were the wife of political cult leader Lyndon LaRouche
and a lawyer with a US federal lawsuit claiming missiles were fired at the World Trade Center and Pentagon. |
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