FROM BBC:

Should we be worried about the threat from organised terrorism or is it simply a phantom menace being used to stop society from falling apart?

In the past our politicians offered us dreams of a better world. Now they promise to protect us from nightmares.

The most frightening of these is the threat of an international terror network. But just as the dreams were not true, neither are these nightmares.

Power of Nightmares explores how the idea that we are threatened by a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion.

It is a myth that has spread unquestioned through politics, the security services and the international media.

At the heart of the story are two groups: the American neo-conservatives and the radical Islamists.

Both were idealists who were born out of the failure of the liberal dream to build a better world.

These two groups have changed the world but not in the way either intended.

Those with the darkest fears became the most powerful
Together they created today's nightmare vision of an organised terror network.

A fantasy that politicians then found restored their power and authority in a disillusioned age. Those with the darkest fears became the most powerful.

I hope we can see the next 2 parts.

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the next two are in google video. i figured, in videosift i'd let the first one represent the series. it's a relatively simple matter to find parts 2 and 3. and btw, they're all good.

i hope we see this shown and discussed in the U.S. some day. perhaps, it has been, but I must have missed it...

Very impressive. Still i wonder if anything like the above could be aired in the US. These documentations of BBC are always worth a look...

An amazing documentary from the BBC which dissects the current political atmosphere of the world...I highly recommend watching the entire series - *promote

Re-promoting this video to the front page as a VideoSift Classic. Originally published on Monday 8th May 2006 (promotion called by gold star member BenJee)

don't have a promote (need to go to the 4 day turnaround).

I am going to let my Power of Nightmares sift die since the longer version is here.

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replacement
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=881321004838285177&q=power+of+nightmares&total=352&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

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Discarding this video. It was flagged as dead but not flagged undead within 7 days.