war on terror?

Question

i'm doing a project on the war on terror. do u guys know any good sites or tell what your thought are?

Answer 1

The world trade center is an interesting site to visit.

My thoughts are that this is a very hard time for us all to live in. Because the event caused our government to become covert in its behaviour, none of us will know for many years what really is happening or who is telling the truth about anything.

I'm sorry for young people in these times. It seems to me that by the time you are an adult, the country will not be the free and open place it once was.

I wish you luck. And I hope we eventually find the people who planned and committed the attack on 9/11.

Answer 2

Try typing in----the truth about 9/11 and the WTC. The site is called loose change. Their are links from there. This is interesting and controversial information. Just remember, Iraq had noting to do with it and. . . . .BIG BROTHER MAY BE WATCHING-----YIKES!!!

Answer 3

Wikipedia & google

Answer 4

It's NOT a war on terror. THINK "outside the box" of American politics.

Fear and shame are the ratings leader today. Fear and humiliation is the unifying principle behind all successful reality shows, be it 'Real World,' 'Survivor,' 'Fear Factor,' or 'The Bachelor.' Fear and anxiety are the most important emotions, both because of their abiding resonance in our history and the way they dominate our present. Hopefully this answer will enlighten Americans to the pervasive media virus of misinformation that they encounter on a daily basis.

Each day Americans are bombarded by a barrage of media messages. At the supermarket checkout we can't help but read tabloid headlines that announce what appears to be the umpteenth teen mother tragedy. Each morning, talk shows seem to feature yet another victim of some rare disease. On the car radio we hear the details of what seems to be the latest in a string of ever more serious youth crimes. Television newscasts will spend weeks discussing the latest plane crash.

Our almost pathological fears do serve some function, however. News media may use these fears to earn higher ratings, politicians may play on our fears during elections, and perhaps, in a sense, even lobbyists for special interest groups may exchange fear for increased fund-raising.

Overblown fears concerning such phenomena as teen pregnancy, racial stereotypes, pedophile priests, crack babies, rare illnesses, cyber porn, "road rage" and "cyber-predators" are being pumped into our living rooms by the minute. There is a HUGE discrepancy between the perception they portray and the reality of the matter.

In the wake of the terrible school shooting tragedy in Littleton, Colorado, many policymakers were rushing to correct what has been viewed as an epidemic of youth violence. Are public fears of a new generation of monster youth unfounded? The media, at least, are fond of reporting youth violence stories. Footage relating to the horrible Littleton event has been played and replayed. One study Glassner cites found that 48 percent of all reports about children on the CBS, ABC, and NBC evening newscasts concerned crime and violence, while only 4 percent of the stories concerned children's' health and economic issues. Are "killer kids" a growing threat to our cities, suburbs, and rural areas? Probably not.

The United States faced many challenges during the 20th century. During this time, the nation grew up as a world power. It fought in two world wars and competed with the Soviet Union in the Cold War. At home, Americans faced the crisis of the Great Depression and the struggle for equal rights for all citizens. Some people are happy to let others take responsibility for big issues like war and justice. Others aren’t satisfied to sit by and watch. They want to make a difference ...

It's time to be socially responsible and as an individual myself, I want to express this with the best example I know. Examining ourselves. This is all a part of being a walking talking living example of effective principles and the birthing of a fresh view of the world, relationships and communicating in them. I have the desire to begin the healing between men and women so that our children, communities, and world will have access to live a powerful, free, loving life.

By examining ourselves, we could herald a new era for humankind in the 21st century, with the US leading the world in "new thought" - which integrates the beneficial elements of our history while transcending its materialism and other drawbacks. The new sciences, as well as the wisdom of the ages, tell us that what we hold in our minds is likely to be created in our reality.

Crossing the "Great Divide" and moving toward peace and cultural creativity can only happen when we create a collective vision which is so inspiring that people are moved to become part of it. The world needs guiding lights, people who have experienced their own personal transformations and are able to bring this light of hope into the world. The question is: Are they -- are we -- willing to take the risk? I am.

Have you seen Bowling for Columbine ?

"It’s a campaign of fear and consumption," states rock star Marilyn Manson, "Keep people afraid and they’ll consume." This lucid insight into the connection between our mass media news diet, the incitement of fear, and consumerism emerged in an interview with Manson in the recent film, Bowling for Columbine.

Manson was the brunt of criticism by many community members and the media for somehow inciting the kind of violence that led to the tragic 1999 incident in Littleton, Colorado where two Columbine High School students killed twelve students and a teacher using handguns.

Why direct blame toward Manson? Because of the rock lyrics he writes. And yet, asks Manson, who has more influence on violent behavior, [former] President Clinton, who was shooting bombs overseas, or himself, just a guy singing some rock and roll songs?

On the same day of the shootings at Columbine, the film’s maker Michael Moore points out in his interview with Manson, President Clinton ordered the heaviest bombing assault yet in Kosovo.

"What would you say to the kids who did the shooting at Columbine," asks Moore. Manson responds: "I wouldn’t say a thing. I’d listen to what they have to say. That’s what no one did."

Bowling for Columbine is a gutsy, but disturbing probe into the absurd cycle of fear prevalent in American culture today. Our obsession with guns, suggests the film, is the same irrational obsession driving the U.S. war economy. Our violent, fear-filled society is one marked, not coincidentally, by addictive over-consumption. Not long after September 11, George W. Bush evoked the fear of terrorism and the virtues of being a good consumer practically in the same breath.

The phenomenon of misplaced fear in American culture is not uncommon. From overblown crime statistics to exaggerated germ scares to plane wrecks, a wide array of groups–including businesses, advocacy organizations, religious sects, and political parties–benefit and profit from promoting fear.

The kind of insecurity and fear exploited by the current U.S. administration may be good for business in the short run, but it’s bad policy in the long run. Human energy, when manipulated by fear, can become distorted and destructive. Fear can incapacitate and paralyze us, keeping our energy in check. But when the energy does assert itself, it can do so in horrendous ways. Addictive consumerism, adherence to narrow beliefs about the nature of reality, and desperate clinging to what deadens us are some of those. Conformity to fabricated and obsolete worldviews, such as one that sanctions the bombing of other countries to protect our hegemony over resources like oil, is another. Giving in to despair is yet another.

The heroes we choose and those we 'villify' can define us in powerful ways. We live in a country where Al Qaeda and Sadaam Hussein have taken on mythic proportions as villains, and where violent characters like Rambo and Dirty Harry are the touted heroes of presidents.

In some respects the emergence of a character such as good child-wizard Harry Potter as a hero in these times seems like a good sign. By depicting a world where good triumphs over evil, one recent oped states, the Harry Potter books give us strength to face real enemies.

Yes, maybe. However, a story motif of good triumphing over evil can as easily justify a campaign to invade Iraq as it can inspire one to do battle with a carefully discerned internal demon or, say, the destructive impact of voter apathy on democratic society. A tale doesn’t automatically impart wisdom simply because it depicts the triumph of good. In fact, many traditional myths depict not the decimation of evil, but its transformation. Good and evil are interconnected forces in the cosmos; their encounter is part of a dialectic that ultimately brings about the overall restoration of the whole.

To give into despair is to succumb to fear, the ultimate source of all human violence. Coming from such a place of power, how might we move beyond a culture of fear in dark times?

– A vibrant and functional democracy depends on the honest dissemination of information. The corporate media, in its rightward drift and easy compliance to political power, is failing the general populace. Citizens groups might start running interference and holding the corporate media responsible for perpetrating violence and consumerism under the guise of news and entertainment. We can start by being conscious of just what they are serving up as our media diet. We can boycott toxic news and demand that they stop creating a culture of fear.

– Don’t let consumption define who we are. True peace is to see ourselves as citizens, not simply consumers. We are human beings in a communion of Earth’s subjects.

– Develop our powers of listening–to young people, to Earth, and to our inner sense of peace. We also need to believe in the wisdom of our young people. In The Soul of Politics, Jim Wallis tells the remarkably hopeful story of the Gang Summit in Kansas City in 1993 where warring barrio gang members came together on their own initiative, listened to each other, and not only worked out a truce, but talked about "transformation and rebuilding." "New visions will require new visionaries," writes Wallis, "And they will most likely come from ordinary people who are willing to become a part of the changes they seek for the very ordinary circumstances of their lives and their society. And that will be the extraordinary thing."

All lasting change begins with people talking to each other, with public square diplomacy, with community.

– Have faith that alternatives to the corporate political parties are not only possible, but that the time is right.

– Practice a spiritual ecology of peace. This practice gives us the basis for moving beyond a world of fear, violence, and war because it is a practice based in the embrace of all life and an acceptance of the forces of ecology at work in our lives. This includes chaos, uncertainty, and surprise. Spiritual ecology, through a practice of quieting and attuning our mind to rhythms outside language brings peace because we are in accord with the present moment. Fear of the future falls away.

Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote: "Those who make peaceful change impossible make violent revolution inevitable." If we commit ourselves to creating peaceful change by not giving into despair and a culture of fear, we practice the spiritual ecology of peace. We take the step of faith that will make violence and war obsolete as solutions to conflict.

We have all faced the challenge of transformation and I stand committed to the vision of creating a world where we are free to be who we are and turn obstacles into new possibilities.