Interesting read, no recipe

[Guest guest]

After the recent display of interest in the " who owns the news " post, this

one might also strike a similar cord...

 

" [excerpted from below]...the year following September 11 has seen probably

the most staggering proliferation of " conspiracy theories " in American

history...Some of these suppositions are patent balderdash. But many others

are coherent and well argued... "

 

DaveO

 

 

Here's a link to the complete article:

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=14873

 

Top Ten Conspiracy Theories of 2002

 

By Mike Ward, PopMatters

January 2, 2003

 

For about thirty minutes after his chief of staff told him that America was

under attack, George W. Bush continued to sit in an elementary school

classroom listening to a second-grader tell a story about a pet goat. He did

a marvelous job of looking completely unsurprised. Meanwhile, four hijacked

jumbo jets were able to fly off-course across several states without

encountering any opposition from the most powerful and responsive air force

in the world.

 

Less than a month later, on the pretext of pursuing terrorist mastermind

Osama bin Laden, the Bush administration began what it called a " war " on the

impoverished and already war-torn country of Afghanistan. It turns out this

assault had been in the works well before September 11 took place.

 

Soon after replacing the Taliban government with one more to its liking

(and, in what is surely a coincidence, resuscitating the world's most

bountiful opium fields), the administration began agitating for a similar,

but even more destructive, bombardment of the oil-rich nation of Iraq. This,

although Osama bin Laden was still at large and no link between him and

Saddam Hussein could be established.

 

For these reasons and hundreds of others, the year following September 11

has seen probably the most staggering proliferation of " conspiracy theories "

in American history. Angry speculation - focused mainly on government dirty

dealings, ulterior motives, and potential complicity in the attacks - has

risen to a clamor that easily rivals what followed the Kennedy

assassination. Some of these suppositions are patent balderdash. But many

others are coherent and well argued, and cite disconcerting reports from the

U.S. corporate media and respected overseas news desks to support their

claims...

 

Here's a link to the complete article:

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=14873