Eisenhower, believed it was possible to end the Cold War and eliminate fear from the national psyche. According to this carefully researched and well-vetted BBC documentary, Richard Nixon, following in the steps of his mentor and former boss Dwight D. If the emails and phone calls many of us in the US received from friends in the UK - and debate in the pages of publications like The Guardian are any indicator, this was a seismic event, one that may have even provoked a hasty meeting between Blair and Bush a few weeks later. The myth-shattering event took place in England the first three weeks of October, when the BBC aired a three-hour documentary written and produced by Adam Curtis, titled 'The Power of Nightmares Bush and Tony Blair?Īnd what if the world was to discover the most shocking dimensions of these twin deceits - that the same men promulgated them in the 1970s and today? What if that hype was done largely to enhance the power, electability, and stature of George W. What if our 'enemy' represented a real but relatively small threat posed by rogue and criminal groups well outside the mainstream of Islam? What if, similarly, the War On Terror was largely a scam, and the administration was hyping it to seem larger-than-life? What if, in fact, the Cold War had been kept alive for two decades based on phony WMD threats? What if there really was no need for much - or even most - of the Cold War? Hyping Terror For Fun, Profit - And Power The Transcripts for 'The Power of Nightmares' can be seen at Silt3.

Thus, they gain more and more political power and at the same time enrich themselves utilizing this same fear. The present administration's idea of fighting terror is nothing more than a clever mind game of fighting terror by instilling terror. Our own country spent millions in marketing the brand Al-Qaeda worldwide before it was co-opted by Bin Laden. The sad part is most Americans will never see this documentary and will thus remain uninformed about how we were then manipulated and how today were are manipulated by a new CREATED fear called the war on terrorism. They extended the Cold War threat by 20 years by selling a horror song and dance using their machines of propaganda and are doing it again. This documentary aired in October by the BBC shows how the very same people that today are using fear to control the American public did this once before. Ramblin' Man: Dispatches from the leisure side.

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