Since governments are so bent on enforcing authority by exagerating and contorting a false image of a threatening group of terrorists, it makes you wonder if they are capable of covertly planning black-op false flag terorrism themselves against their own people.

Norm,

thanks for posting the Power of Nightmares. I think it ought to be viewed by everyone. It lucidly portrays the complexities of the development of the current situation and the "war on terror" and how ultimately misguided that is. Disturbing but great watching for those with a given reasoning capacity.

Excellent.

this is very intriguing. is there any way i can get hold of the documentary, since i don't have the bbc channel? online or on dvd? or is it new and therefore not out in those forms yet?

thanks!

Wow. After watching all of part one, I opted to buy the DVD, and will wait for it to arrive before I watch parts two and three. What an excellent documentary, so far! I have always favored Frontline, but this one beats them hands down. What a great video!

Thank you very much for sharing that today.

read the post again, liketherain. links to purchase the dvd and view it online are right there.

This documentary was released in 2004 and I just watched all 3 parts of it. Thank you Norm for bringing this to my attention. It changes my perspective of the world stage of power a bit. Or better: finally gave me the inside look on how it came to be that they all lie over and over again, they really truly believe in it. We have extremist in power. That's even worse than the terrorist treat. Bush sr. must be going through hell to see this administration implementing all this with the "Bush jr." brand stuck on top.

On a technical note: Look it up on google video, even better quality there. And have a look at the commentary on the bbc website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/nightmare. Nothing new but it's good to read some comments by the maker of the documentary.

So who is the boogie man the neo cons, the anti modern Muslims The Carlyle group. Hell, its populations that buy into hate that are the problem. I will say this living in the US isn't that bad yes there are green lawns and free speech rampant sex and degradation but it isn't that bad really. This author needs to read the old testament bible the idea of using peoples fears is not born of the neo cons in the 50's America, it's nothing new. The idea was born where the Tigers meet Euphrates.

I buy the history lesson I had it before this film and I recommend that people see it but the conclusions that the author may seem to want the viewer to draw may not be constructive. The boogie men are those religious fanatics that have justification of the end times I include fundy Muslim suicide bombers and bush and his Christian fundy's than put bush into power. they are both buying into hate.

In a global community one world one government there will be some nebulas group at the top pulling the strings. If the population don't buy into a culture of hate then there will not be people willing to carry out atrocities. Fact is the will always be the powers that be, the question is what culture will they preside.

What a great choice to plug! Saw all three parts, by far the best explanation for the mess these two ideologies have gotten us into.

The cover story of this month's 'Atlantic Monthly', "Declaring Victory", as an excellent article basically talking about the unintended consequences of the global war on terrorism. Basically it concludes that the greatest danger is not the terrorist threat, but rather the mess we make when we take a small threat, overreact and then throw our economy and the world into chaos, trying to prevent a non-existential threat.

It's a good read.

Watching that documentary somehow made me believe the conspiracy theories on 911 as more... credible...

I hate to leave such a shallow comment for what looks like yet another amazing BBC documentary to check out (Root of Evil? being the other one), but I must ask: does anyone know the name of that tune that plays for the majority of the clip? It sounds vaguely familiar.....and I'd like to track it down.

Thank you very much for this BBC2 program. Look at Alex Jones movie on 911, some ideas are close. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6517776133137328105&q

And congratulations for Onegoodmove, unique on the web! Baruch.

I don't begrudge the producers of the DVD a few bucks, but it's much more important to maximize the number of people who get to see this documentary.

A burnable DVD image is available at

http://www.archive.org

Make a few copies for your friends.

Somebody asked who composed the music that comes back often in the BBC film. It is Ennio Morricone's music for Elio Petri's 1971 movie "Indagine su un citadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto". ;)

Thanks, Baruch.

There's also some Brian Eno on the soundtrack, too.

I recommend anyone with the technology to download the videos from archive.org and burn a DVD to do so - the quality is perfect, and I suspect that this is exactly what the seller on Amazon has done, since this doc has NOT been released officially by Curtis or the BBC!

Your mention of Brian Eno got my attention. Quite a selection of musicians for this film!

From Wikipedia: Title theme: "The Big Ship" on Another Green World by Brian Eno Incidental: "Becalmed" and "In Dark Trees" on Another Green World by Brian Eno Incidental: Soundtrack from Citizen Kane, film score by Bernard Herrmann, 1941. Incidental: Soundtrack from The Ipcress File, by John Barry Incidental: Soundtrack from Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, by Ennio Morricone, 1970 Part 1 credits: "Baby, It's Cold Outside" by Margaret Whiting and Johnny Mercer, 1949 version Part 2 opening: "Also Sprach Zarathustra" "I've Got Spurs That Jingle Jangle Jingle" (possibly by Singer-Gene Autry; Music-Joseph Lilley;Lyrics-Ranke Loesser, c1942) Afghan war: "Colours" by Donovan Part 3 credits: "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" by B.J. Thomas

I also saw a credit to Charles Ives from another source.

Brian Eno has the music for airports and he also composed the music for some NASA films. I had not heard mention of him for some time now.