by Ivan Eland

Independent Institute

08/17/04

One might ask how the 'Home of the Free and the Land of the Brave' -- a model of political and economic freedom geographically removed from most centers of conflict -- has put its citizens in mortal danger by becoming so generally despised. The answer is simple. Although the U.S. government repeatedly warns its citizens of imminent terrorist attacks and takes draconian measures -- both at home and abroad -- in the name of 'national security,' it really does not have many incentives to actually make those citizens safer...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1343


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The distressing thing about Bush is he has taken the world and the American people for a ride. Within months Bush seized on the atrocity of September 11 to reinvent himself as a radical nationalist intent on revolutionising the US domestically and in its role in the world...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6698.htm

Anyone following the American and British media or listening to US security chiefs would be in little doubt that the two countries were facing an imminent attack by al Qaeda. But information is emerging that calls into doubt the level of threat...

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3582767&msg=emaillink


From Information Clearing House

http://www.butterflyspirit.org/projects/feed_not_greed.htm


Informant: Friends

http://atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FH04Aa01.html


Informant: dragon downstairs