The Greatest Sedition Is Silence: Four Years in America

by William Rivers Pitt

Book Overview

This passionate and controversial book is the work of one of America's most outspoken and talented new journalists. William Rivers Pitt's caustic critique of the last four years of American government... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745320104
• ISBN13: 9780745320106
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Five Star Journalism

What more can one say... the truth hurts, but it needs to be said. As a researcher I know a thing or two about how hard it is to find the facts. It's not just documentation, itself a major task that goes well past the norm of a 9-5 type of job. Rather, it takes dedication, long sleepless nights, and what's even harder is putting your work into words. Mr. Pitts is and always will be this American Historians' journalist hero. If his name is on the book, it's as close to the truth as one can ever expect. In a world where hero's are far and in between, just having the guts to write the factual truth should be enough, but if anyone can step up to the plate and prove Pitts is wrong, well, I'd like to see it. Thanks Mr. Pitt for giving me the truth when no other media had the nerve or cared to.

Riveting account of corruption in the USA

This fascinating book reveals many extraordinary facts about present-day America, most importantly about its current war on terrorism. An Executive Order signed by Bush authorised secret military tribunals to try suspected terrorists: US citizens can be arrested and held without charge, without access to a lawyer, without trial and without limit. The Attorney-General says that those who oppose these tribunals are aiding the terrorists: dissent equals treason and terrorism! ?Capitalism ... has discovered a fatal cancer in its guts.? Deregulation allowed ?asset-stripping? (theft), as at Enron. There is much evidence of Bush and Cheney doing the same. As Pitt writes, ?the pirates have seized this ship of state, and have two of their own at the helm.? The core of the book is a riveting account of the provenance of 9/11. From January 2001 to August, Bush held talks with the Taliban government in Afghanistan to get them to agree to Unocal?s proposed pipeline from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan. The Taliban rejected the deal. The Bush administration then threatened them with war, while watering down anti-terrorism measures. Before 9/11, Israel, Russia, Egypt, France and Germany had all specifically warned US security agencies of imminent terrorist attacks using hijacked airplanes against US landmarks. The Bush administration did not pass these warnings on to airport security agencies. When this was revealed, Bush responded that he did not order heightened airplane security because it would have cut industry profits! Stanley Hilton, a former aide to Republican Senator Bob Dole, charges that Bush allowed 9/11 to happen on purpose, so that he could make political gains from the tragedy. Bush has consistently refused to allow a public inquiry into the events surrounding 9/11, and last November he signed an Executive Order sealing all presidential documentation. After 9/11, US forces replaced the Taliban with a government friendly to the USA and its oil interests: Afghanistan is now, nominally, run by Unocal?s man on the spot. Saudi Arabia is the USA?s key ally in the Middle East, supplier of most of the USA?s oil and of 80% of Al Qa?ida?s recruits, and chief funder and sponsor of Al Qa?ida. Yet Cuba is part of Bush?s ?Axis of Evil?, and Saudi Arabia is not! The CIA did not investigate the roots of Al Qa?ida terrorism in Saudi Arabia because this could have harmed US oil companies? interests. As John O?Neill, Deputy Director of the FBI before he resigned in protest, said, ? The main obstacles to investigating Islamic terrorism were US oil corporate interests, and the role played by Saudi Arabia in it.? (Incidentally, George Bush Senior is on the advisory board of the Carlyle Group, a huge multinational heavily involved in the oil business.) Pitt writes, ?a blind spot developed in our anti-terrorism preparations out of deference to these business interests.? The USA has now withdrawn its troops from the very country where it should be focusing i

A book that asks the question that our Media & Policos don't

Great book!It makes me wonder why our media and our elected politicans are not demanding these same questions answered.

Will Pitt hits a homerun again

I've only recently become aware of how the Bush administration has used the tragic events of 9/11 to push their own hegemonious agenda. Mr. Pitt's book succinctly presents all the facts relating to the current crisis facing our nation, and presents them in a linear, easy to follow fashion. This book is for those whose mind is fully open to examining all facets of our current political and sociological circumstances - freepers need not apply.

Honest, Insightful Assessment of the Mess We're In Today

I am only halfway through this book and with each page my heart sinks further. For the last fews years, I've closely followed the news in the American and International media and Mr. Pitt's book only confirmed my analyses and the conclusions I'd drawn. This is no time for citizens to rest, comfortable in the knowledge that we live in a Democracy. Our Democratic rights are being stripped away daily- right under our very noses but unnoticed. This book is a must read! As you read it, ask yourself if it doesn't explain why we are fast becoming a Pariah nation and losing all moral authority we ever had on the international scene. Kudo's to Mr. Pitt for his excellent book!