"The best jihad is a word of truth hurled in the face of a tyrant."
 – The Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)

New Book: Obama Voters Questioning the War on Terror 

For Immediate Release -  June 19^th 2009 

Contact:  kbarrett(at)merr.com  

Fatna Bellouchi fatnabell(at)yahoo.com

According to a brand-new book, voters elected Barack Hussein Obama to the presidency for one overriding reason: They were skeptical about the Bush Administration's War on Terror. After rigorously scrutinizing the so-called War on Terror, the book concludes that this concept is an empty propaganda ploy that must be exposed and rejected if Obama voters are to get the change they voted for. 

Dr. Kevin Barrett, author of Questioning the War on Terror: A Primer for Obama Voters (publication date July 1st, 2009) writes: 

 "The election of Barack Hussein Obama tacked a giant flashing neon question mark onto the Bush Administration's much-ballyhooed but never clearly defined 'War on Terror.' Surveys showed that McCain voters, like Bush voters before them, were heavily motivated by fear of terrorists. Obama voters, on the other hand, were more worried about the economy. 

"By voting for a dark-skinned guy with a Muslim father, a middle name Hussein and a last name that sounds like Osama, Americans were saying they didn't buy the Fox News propaganda demonizing Arabs, Muslims, and other vaguely dark-skinned people with funny names. 

"By voting for the man they perceived as the anti-war candidate, Americans were re-stating the message they had sent in 2006: End the war NOW already! (What is it about the word NOW that the politicians don't understand?) 

"The rejection of the Republicans was also a rejection of torture. Obama campaigned for ending torture and closing Guantanamo, and the voters responded enthusiastically. 

"Obama's election showed the voters sensed a close connection between Bush's hugely expensive, ruinous War on Terror and the economic difficulties America is facing. By running up a ten trillion dollar deficit and dragging America's good name through the mud, Bush had wrecked the economy. Perhaps Obama, the peace candidate whose top priority was the economy, would be able to fix it." 

Dr. Barrett uses rigorous analysis and just plain common sense to show that Obama voters were right: the War on Terror is a profoundly dubious enterprise. He begins with the observation that Americans are thirty times more likely to die from lightning strikes, and ten times more likely to drown in their bathtubs, than to be killed by terrorists: "Should we declare war against lightning bolts and bathtubs? Should we install PA systems in our bathrooms reminding us that the threat level of bathtub drowning has been raised to orange? Should we create a new Department of Bathtub Security (DBS) empowered to do sneak-and-peak warrantless searches of our bathrooms to make sure that we're using no-slip bath-mats? Should we invade and occupy countries that we falsely blame for bathtub deaths? Would this be any crazier than what we're doing now, allegedly due to the equally insignificant 'terrorist threat'?" 

Using the Socratic method, Questioning the War on Terror asks fifty-four hard questions that, taken together, effectively annihilate the central notion on which our post-9/11 political life has been based. It concludes with a list of twenty-two concrete actions that readers can take to end the War on Terror and achieve the change they voted for. 

About the author: 

Dr. Kevin Barrett, a Ph.D. Arabist-Islamologist, is one of America's best-known critics of the War on Terror. Dr. Barrett has appeared many times on Fox, CNN, PBS and other broadcast outlets, and has inspired feature stories and op-eds in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Tribune, and other leading publications. Dr. Barrett has taught at colleges and universities in San Francisco, Paris, and Wisconsin, where he ran for Congress in 2008. He currently works as a nonprofit organizer, author, and talk radio host. His website is http://www.truthjihad.com 

Questioning the War on Terror: A Primer for Obama Voters (160 pages)

Publisher: Khadir Press

Website: http://QuestioningTheWarOnTerror.com

ISBN 978-1-4276-4138-0

Publication Date: July 1st, 2009

UK Book Tour: July 7th, London; July 11th, Liverpool. Contact Belinda McKenzie b.mckenzie(at)btinternet.com

Book Release Party: July 23rd, Dardenelles restaurant, 1851 Monroe St., Madison, WI (608) 256-8804


9/11 Truth: A Furqan for Our Time
By Kevin Barrett 

During a recent appearance on Truth Jihad Radio, Niels Harrit, the Danish chemistry professor whose paper on high-tech explosives in the World Trade Center dust seals the case for controlled demolition, discussed the reaction his work has elicited. 

"People smile at me as they walk past," he said, adding that his emails have been unanimously congratulatory. Unfortunately, he said, younger professors who bring up 9/11 truth in faculty conversations do not always get such a friendly reaction. 

A Washington, D.C. insider of my acquaintance tells me that when he drops 9/11 truth into discussions with fellow insiders, countenances darken and conversations freeze up. Oddly enough, the same thing often happens when 9/11 is questioned in conversations among peace and justice activists. 

What is it about 9/11 truth that is so profoundly polarizing? 

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Thomas Paine, Two Hundred Years Hence^*


It is Monday, 8 June 2009, two hundred years to the day since my miserable death,,,, (continued here)

JFK Plugs Harrit & Barrett London Event, 7/7/09 

Neils Harrit, in case you missed the biggest story of the year, is the lead author of the new nano-thermite paper that puts the last nail in the coffin of the official story of 9/11. I'm honored to be on the program with him on 7/7 in London in what promises to be a great event.   (More about JFK endorsement video here.)

On Thursday, torture victim Ali al-Marri – the only "enemy combatant" held in the US – entered a coerced guilty plea in a Peoria, Illinois courthouse... continued here

Okay, Willie, Here It Is: My Response to Wikipedia

[For a succinct list of points and sources to help improve my Wikipedia page, click here.]

9/11 hero William Rodriguez has been telling me for years that I need to correct the lies and distortions in my Wikipedia biography. Until now I just didn't see the need. I always said, "Willie, it's so bad it's good! Anybody with a shred of critical thinking skills can see that it's a rabid, incoherent, over-the-top smear-job. When a slavering pack of vicious morons attacks someone so ineptly, it reflects well on their intended victim. I'm deeply honored by this hideous biography." (Full article here.)

Points That Should Be on My Wikipedia Page, and Supporting Sources
By Kevin Barrett, http://www.truthjihad.com

Read article here

Why 9/11 Truthers Should Pick Fights — Carefully
A PR Primer by Kevin Barrett

"If you want an audience, start a fight." -Gaelic proverb. 

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Kevin Barrett 9/11 Truth CV

I have been working full-time for 9/11 truth since September, 2004. During that time I have been involved in several major breakthroughs for the 9/11 truth movement. 

I was the main organizer of David Ray Griffin's April 2005 "9/11 and American Empire" talk at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which was broadcast nationwide on C-Span. The event, attended by more than 450 people who gave Griffin a standing ovation, offered the 9/11 truth movement its first significant national media exposure. And the exposure was 100% positive -- Griffin was brilliant, the University podium added to his credibility, and C-Span repeatedly broadcast the event in its entirety.   

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"Zionizing Muslims via Interfaith Dialogue" by Joachim Martillo:

Kevin Barrett's comments:  

As a co-founder of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth, and lead editor of 9/11 and American Empire v.2: Christians, Jews and Muslims Speak Out, I have been in the forefront of efforts to build an interfaith dialogue on the facts and meaning of 9/11 and the "war on terror."   (But...) There can be no real interfaith dialogue unless the Muslim-majority opinion on these issues is permitted expression.  

What is the Muslim-majority position? 

* 9/11 was an inside job, as more and more architects, engineers, scientists, former high-level military and intelligence officials, and other experts are saying. 

* Zionism is comparable to Nazism. (See Martillo's article below.) And Zionism (putting a Jewish state in Palestine) is just as insane and unsustainable as putting a white Episcopalian state in Peking, or an Arab Muslim state in Rome. The world's 1.5 billion Muslims will no more accept a Jewish state in Palestine than the Chinese would accept a white Episcopalian state in Peking, or Catholics would accept an Arab Muslim state in Rome.

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America's Darth Vader / Dick Cheney

By Allen Roland, Ph.D.  (Allen Roland will be my guest on "Fair And Balanced with Kevin Barrett" this Tuesday, March 17^th, noon-1 p.m. Eastern, at http://www.noliesradio.org)

As I have said for years, Dick Cheney's fingerprints are on virtually every lie and abuse of power committed by the corrupt Cheney/Bush administration. Seymour Hersh's recent revelations about an 'executive assassination ring' that directly reported to Cheney is another strong indication of Cheney's  shadow presidency ~ which will eventually be linked to the 9/11 conspiracy or cover up.  - Allen L Roland  (for full article, click here)


9/11 and Self-Incrimination by Kevin Barrett 

"No person...shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself."  - 5^th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America 

Why shouldn't anyone be compelled to be a witness against himself? 

The 5^th Amendment's prohibition of compelled self-incrimination is a radical concept. Since time immemorial, the self-styled forces of law and order have been forcing people to incriminate themselves. Why? Simple. People everywhere believe that once someone has confessed, the case has been solved. Those in the business of solving cases are rewarded for success, and penalized for failure. So they do whatever it takes to get confessions. Usually that boils down to torture, whether physical or psychological.  Continued here.
 

Should George W. Bush Be Arrested in Calgary Alberta – To Be Tried For International Crimes? by Anthony J. Hall

Serious allegations of criminality are swirling around ex-US President George W. Bush and current Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. In late February of 2009 it was reported that the Hague-based