In all major regions of the world, the economic recession is deep-seated, resulting in mass unemployment, the collapse of state social programs and the impoverishment of millions of people. The meltdown of financial markets was the result of institutionalised fraud and financial manipulation. The economic crisis is accompanied by a world-wide process of militarisation, a war without borders led by the U.S. and its NATO allies. This book takes the reader through the corridors of the Federal Reserve, into the plush corporate boardrooms on Wall Street where far-reaching financial transactions are routinely undertaken. Each of the authors in this timely collection digs beneath the gilded surface to reveal a complex web of deceit and media distortion which serves to conceal the workings of the global economic system and its devastating impacts on people's lives.

Table of Contents

Background: Behind September 11; Where Was Osama Bin Laden on 9/11?; Who is Osama Bin Laden?; Washington Supports International Terrorism; Cover Up or Complicity?; War & Globalisation; War & the Hidden Agenda; The Trans-Afghan Pipeline; America's War Machine; The American Empire; Disarming the New World Order; Political Deception: The Missing Link Behind 9/11; Doctoring Official Transcripts; The Disinformation Campaign; War Propaganda: Fabricating an Outside Enemy; 9/11 and the Iran-Contra Scandal; Providing a Face to the Enemy: Who is Abu Musab AI-Zarqawi?; Protecting Al Qaeda Fighters in the War Theatre; The Deportation of Civilians to the Guantanamo Concentration Camp; The New World Order; War Criminals in High Office; The Spoils of War: Afghanistan's Multibillion-Dollar Heroin Trade; Foreknowledge of 9/11; On the Morning of 9/11: What Happened on the Planes?; America's Pre-emptive War Doctrine; The Post 9/11 Terror Alerts; Big Brother: Towards the Homeland Security State; The London 7/7 Bomb Attacks; Index.