![]() | Wars of Blood and Faith: The Conflicts That Will Shape the 21st Century by Ralph Peters
Buy new: $20.40 / Used from: $3.95 I just got a review copy, am putting this at the top of the list because this is the single best book slamming our corrupt Republican and Democratic party leadership that are exploiting our brave troops for private selfish gain and against the best interests of all patriotic Americans.
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![]() | Dunces of Doomsday: 10 Blunders That Gave Rise to Radical Islam, Terrorist Regimes, and the Threat of an American Hiroshima by Paul L. Williams
Buy used from: $2.24 Great book by an author that some consider to be exaggerating, but I consider to be refreshing.
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![]() | Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror by Richard Clarke
Buy new: $12.60 / Used from: $0.01 This is the first credible book on the Clinton-Bush legacy of ignoring terrorism.
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![]() | Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency by Lou Dubose
Buy used from: $0.20 23 explicitly documented high crimes and misdemeanors committed by Dick Cheney--and not a sound from anyone I can hear.
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![]() | The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 by Ron Suskind
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 One of two books documenting the 25 high crimes and misdemeanors committed by Dick Cheney.
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![]() | In Defense of Our America: The Fight for Civil Liberties in the Age of Terror by Anthony D. Romero
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $0.01 Worth including because America has become a police state. Not only is Halliburton building prison camps in the US for US citizens, but US soldiers are being asked if they would be willing to disarm US citizens--those that say yes stay home, those that say no go to Iraq.
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![]() | Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror by Michael Scheuer
Buy new: $13.46 / Used from: $0.01 The best possible account from inside the CIA, makes Tenet out to be a fraud.
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![]() | At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA by George Tenet
Buy new: $22.80 / Used from: $0.01 Tenet blew it. He was too busy pandering to keep his job to actually be effective. He also fails to note that in the ten years prior to becoming DCI (because no one else wanted the job), he was active participant in dismantling the US Intelligence Community. See my longer review. In his own words, "we don't know xyz." Amazon does not allow the actual word beginning with s!
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![]() | See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism by Robert Baer
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $1.24 Robert Baer, a decorate clandestine services officer, tells it like it is. The US Government failed its citizens for lack of ethics, insight, and will.
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![]() | Breakpoint by Richard A. Clarke
Buy new: $18.92 / Used from: $0.01 The novel side, sometimes fiction allows you to say things that cannot be said in non-fiction--see also his book on Against All Enemies.
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![]() | Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy by Andrew Cockburn
Buy new: $19.00 / Used from: $0.01 We have two village idiots and a master thief to thank for our current troubles. This is the second village idiot.
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![]() | Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror by Mahmood Mamdani
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $5.96 See my longer review, this is a very important book.
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![]() | Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror by Mark Danner
Buy new: $18.21 / Used from: $1.87 Cheney and Rumsfeld led us into a quagmire in which America has not only lost blood, treasure, and spirit, but its moral standing as well, which Will and Ariel Durant tell us in Lessons of History is a strategic asset of incalculable value.
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![]() | The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $7.25 See my longer review. Superb review that shows us that terrorism (or asymmetric warfare) goes back to the 1940's with opposition to despotic dictators that the West and Russia supported against their own people.
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![]() | The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $2.44 See my longer review. A top notch effort.
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![]() | Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism by Robert Pape
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $5.47 Brilliant work. My own thesis in 1976 (free at OSS.Net in Early Papers) found that it is middle class well-educated and well-off individuals that rebel against dictators. The fastest way to cool Bin Laden is to withdraw our military and our financial assistance to both Israel and the Arab dictators that refuse to aid Palestinians.
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![]() | First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan by Gary Schroen
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.54 This is the other great CIA book.
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![]() | Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander by Gary Berntsen
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $8.60 This is one of two superb book that make it clear that CIA and Special Forces and the Air Force won Afghanistan, and CIA had "eyes on" Bin Laden for 4 days. Tommy Franks refused to put a Ranger battalion around Bin Laden's known path, OR he was ordered not to by Don Rumsfeld, who also allowed the Pakistanis to evaculate 3000 Taliban and Al Qaeuda from Tora Bora with an all-night air corridor.
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![]() | All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer
Buy new: $8.57 / Used from: $1.56 See also my list on Blowback, Dissent, and Anti-Americanism. Also the book, The Fifty Year Wound. The US military and CIA have spent 50 years helping US corporations loot the Third World while arming their dictators and plotting the overthrow of democratic leaders intent on helping their own people.
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![]() | The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism by Hernando De Soto
Buy new: $11.52 / Used from: $5.65 This guy gets it. See also C. K. Prahalad, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, in Earth Threat #1: Poverty.
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![]() | Gandhi and Beyond: Nonviolence for an Age of Terrorism by David Cortright
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $2.04 Bingo. Combine this with giving a cell phone to each of the five billion poor, and making on demand education available in all languages via cell phone as needed, and you create heaven on earth. For what we have spent on Iraq (half a trillion, not counting known future costs of two trillion) we could have given every one of the five billion a $50 cell phone.
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![]() | The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation by Stephen Flynn
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $0.93 Extremely useful book--the bottom line is that the federal government is now both inept and insolvement, and only localized resiliency will triumph over disasters.
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![]() | In the Words of Our Enemies by Jed Babbin
Buy new: $19.96 / Used from: $0.41 Useful rendering.
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![]() | 9-11 by Noam Chomsky
Buy new: $9.56 / Used from: $0.01 Chomsky is a patriot speaking truth to the people.
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![]() | Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta by Gore Vidal
Buy new: $10.21 / Used from: $0.01 Vidal joins Chomsky, Michael Klare, and Sy Hersh as one of a handful of speakers of truth.
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![]() | The Terror Timeline: Year by Year, Day by Day, Minute by Minute: A Comprehensive Chronicle of the Road to 9/11--and America's Response by Paul Thompson
Buy new: $13.82 / Used from: $3.82 Absolutely essential reference.
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![]() | Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America, Revised Edition by Michael Scheuer
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $0.01 Essential reading from the top US analysts with access to both secret and open source information.
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![]() | What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat by Louise Richardson
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $0.60 Very useful. See my longer review.
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![]() | 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA, Fourth Edition by Webster Griffin Tarpley
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $8.00 Tarpley is a historian. I found out later he is also a socialist, but I do not believe that undermines the basic good sense of his book. Clinton-Albright (Gore was a zero) and Cheney-Bush have done more in their terms to fan the flames of asymmetric warfare than anyone in history.
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![]() | The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11 by David Ray Griffin
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.49 Another troubling book that persaudes me Cheney is impeachable and indictable.
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![]() | The Terror Conspiracy: Deception, 9/11 and the Loss of Liberty by Jim Marrs
Buy new: $12.20 / Used from: $8.99 It is very important for all citizens to note that Terrorism is NEXT TO LAST on the list of High Level Threats to Humanity that LtGen Dr. Brent Scowcroft helped put together. Dick Cheney is playing all of us for fools--inattentive fools.
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![]() | Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11 by Wayne Barrett
Buy used from: $0.99 Gulliani is at minimum a fraud, and at worst a conspirator to the murder of most of those killed in NYC, including firefighters, by controlled demolitions planted by Larry Silverstein to get rid of asbestos and collect $7 billion (undoubtedly with collusion from the insurance companies, for no insurance company would ignore all the evidence that this author and others have discovered).
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![]() | The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authorized Edition) by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $0.01 Complete fraud. Every commissioner had conflicts of interest, and they did not interview over 100 key witnesses including the general that was supposed to be in charge of the national commmand center but who excused himself at 0830 and did not reappear until 1100.
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![]() | The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions And Distortions by David Ray Griffin
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $3.32 Essnetial reading. The US public, for being inattentive and dumbed down (and not at all served by corporate media), has been betrayed.
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![]() | Towers of Deception: The Media Cover-up of 9/11 by Barrie Zwicker
Buy new: $18.96 / Used from: $7.88 Very important useful book. See also Fog Facts and Weapons of Mass Deception (do not be put off by the latter's comic book cover, it is a *serious* book.
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![]() | A General Speaks Out: The Truth About the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq by Michael DeLong
Buy new: $13.45 / Used from: $0.69 It's a pity generals do not discover their voices until after they retire and have a pension. Every one of our generals and admirals should have refeused to obey Rumsfeld's illegal orders, and remanded him to investigation and indictment.
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![]() | Triple Cross: How bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI--and Why Patrick Fitzgerald Failed to Stop Him by Peter Lance
Buy new: $21.24 / Used from: $0.84 The guy was a low-rent nothing, but this book is important because both terrorists and criminal gangs are using the US Army as a free training arena from which they also steal weapons and explosives.
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![]() | The War of Ideas: Jihadism against Democracy by Walid Phares
Buy new: $19.46 / Used from: $0.05 Unfortunately, this author misses the point. The US is guilty of war crimes, of virtual colonialism, of unilateral militarism including 750 unwanted bases around the world, and of predatory immoral capitalism. We are in a race between education that can create stabilizing wealth, and global anarchy. The only "ideas" that the US is fielding are the lunatic notions of the extremist right..
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![]() | Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe by Graham Allison
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $2.16 Allison is a serious person, but this is an excellent example of looking at the world through a straw. Poverty, infectuous disease, the end of clean water, a bio-chemical accident, there are all more likely and have worse consequences. See all the others lists.
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