The Road to 9/11 (Electronic book text)

America's expansion into the rest of the world since World War II has led to momentous secret decision-making at high levels. Increasingly these decisions have been made by very small cliques more and more responsive to the private agendas of private wealth-at the expense of the public, of the openly organized democratic public state, and of civil society. In implementing these agendas, U.S. intelligence agencies have become embarrassingly involved with terrorist groups they once backed and helped to create, including al-Qaeda. This embarrassment has led to ongoing cover-ups of past major criminal acts, and perhaps even to the mass homicide of 9/11. Other societies before America, after a similar cycle of imperial overreach and internal decay, have recovered. This book reviews ways in which a reinvigorated American public opinion could work to restore and strengthen a more open civil society.