Terrorism and obsessions

By all accounts across the poles, 9/11 changed the world for the worse. US War On Terror has ended up making the prevailing insecurity as the theme song, generally, of itself and its allies etc. For Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, it is as if their people are caught up in a bizarre Black Hole in Space. No wonder the US presidential contenders as well as their 2-ics have been dramatising 'terrorism' particularly in the mid-west. This part of the US tends, generally, to be ridden by phobias etc which is the outcome of naïveté and rather puerile 'tunnel' vision. Unfortunately in the US elections, this block assumes a decisive position due to the broad division prevailing in the rest of the country. Hence some of these are designated as the 'swing states'.

Adam Schatz writing in the London Review of Books has highlighted a mischievous and disgusting exercise carried out by The Clarion Fund, a Jewish set-up based in Manhattan at Grace Corporate Park Executive Suites, in complicity with some neo-cons. Twenty-eight million copies of a documentary called Obsession claiming to deal with "radical Islam war against the West" have been launched in the mid-west to cleverly help one party as "its circulation just happened to coincide with Obama's leap in the polls."

Being business as usual even the New York Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education printed special supplements thereof to make some buck, hopefully. The film is reported to have cost $400,000. Rabi Raphael Shore of Israel is reported to be the Executive Producer of the film while the rest of the partners remain shadowy figures hiding behind fictitious titles except Wayne Kopping, the South African neo-con, who is the Director. Both of them have been freely using the television to promote 'their work'.

The movie was first launched in 2006 to influence the mid-term polls.