NYT Books in Review: “Overblown,” “Medical Apartheid”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/books/review/Lieven.t.html?pagewanted=print

Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them, by John Mueller.

“A real but limited threat has been inflated to produce widespread and unjustified anxiety…John Mueller suggests that the 9/11 attacks were probably a one-time event that cannot be repeated.”

And, of course, if 9/11 itself was a “false flag operation,” it was itself an event planned for the express purpose of accelerating the neocon agenda, including the concommitant use of fear to control the population.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/books/review/Emanuel.t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present, by Harriet B. Washington.

“Harriet Washington investigates the exploitation of African-Americans in medical research…The history of medical abuse of blacks, Washington charges, goes far beyond the infamous Tuskegee study.”

 

 

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