Why is book "The New Pearl Harbor" getting so little attention?

It was delayed from March and now available from Amazon

reviewed in NH Gazette

Who's the author?

Amazon.com: Books: The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions ...... The most important book you will ever read, May 13, 2004, Reviewer: Richard Curtis from Seattle, WA United States. The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions ...
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1566565529?v=glance

"Letting bad things happen in order to achieve great goals"



http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1566565529/qid=1084714297/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/002-4732643-6375237?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

We can only read so fast.

100- to 200 e-mails a day cuts into my reading time.

Especially since O'Neill, Woodward, Dean, et al were absolutely EVERYWHERE after their books came out. I don't have an answer-- but, I bet when Moore's movie comes out this summer there will be a resurgent interest in the book. It gets mentioned by others who are writing at the moment in magazine articles. For myself, I hadn't heard of it (even though I'm a weekly bookstore customer). My recently converted to Islam neighbor told me to read it. It's very compelling reading, with great footnotes & online resources. It's been through four readers in the month I've had it. It was the only copy in the bookstore.

I had a hard time finding a copy in a store too. I went to several small stores and Barnes & Noble and came up emptyhanded. Finally I went to Borders and bought their only copy. I think it may be a combination of Interlink Books being a relatively small indie publisher and the subject matter. Despite all the Bush disasters and even with the 9-11 commission, few people have figured out that the official 9-11 story is crap.

I am a newbie here (in fact this is my first post; DU is wonderful). I consider myself very well informed, but unless you go looking for alternative 9-11 thinking, it's not even in the liberal mainstream. That's beginning to change I think. I am telling everyone i know to check out "The New Pearl Harbor".

My teenage daughter has been reading my copy and her humanities teacher spotted it and was fascinated. Now he's reading it. I am hoping he talks about it in class next week.

it's a cut and paste from very mixed sources and it's 'front-loaded' with the more extreme conspiracy theories:

no pentagon plane, controlled demolition of the towers, etc.

there is some good information in the middle section, but all of it has been in other books already, or detailed in the paulthompson timeline (which along with War on Freedom is excessively quoted.)

i've almost finished it, but my feeling is that it distracts rather from rather than expands on existing 9/11 investigation.

are real it seems more than that. Soon I'll read the book.

All with STARS and everything ...

Hot damn !

Welcome to DU Les BOOGIE, awakeinindiana, and oldlady ...

GREAT to have you aboard ! ...

A Letter from Howard Zinn:


To All Those Working for a Peaceful, Just & Environmentally Sustainable Society:

Whether one views the 9/11 "terrorist" attacks as blow back, a wake-up call, or an unjustified outrage, they have deeply affected the American psyche and our attitudes toward war, the future, and the world. As a historian trying to understand this phenomenon, I tend to view the government's behavior, before and after 9/11, in the context of its leaders' past actions.

Before 9/11, Bush's inner circle of neoconservative advisors proclaimed the need for a dramatic expansion of U.S. military might entailing "full spectrum dominance" over all other nations and regions (including outer space), long term petro-resource control with permanent Middle East bases, and a preemptive First Strike policy against recalcitrant states. In September 2000, however, the neocon's flagship think tank, the Project for a New America Century, warned that this "process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor."

After 9/11, this administration systematically nurtured the fear of further homeland attacks to justify its own assaults on constitutional rights as well as social and environmental programs that protected "the people" but fettered corporate power and control.

David Ray Griffin's book THE NEW PEARL HARBOR: DISTURBING QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION AND 9/11 asks "Were these tragedies simply the result of unprecedented failures and incompetence as the government maintains, or were there elements of foreknowledge and implicit welcome involved?" He attempts to answer this question, reviewing the facts, studying other possible interpretations of these facts, and observing the breakdown of the official story over time.

Griffin's status as a renowned theologian and his systematic approach to the documented evidence lend this work unique importance and authority. Although still shunned by the mainstream media, his book has already encouraged many thousands to debate the case for possible government complicity and at the very least to DEMAND A FULL, TRANSPARENT AND TRULY INDEPENDENT PUBLIC INQUIRY.
Democracy requires citizen vigilance, informed debate and official accountability. In that spirit, David Ray Griffin's book deserves to be widely read.


Howard Zinn


http://septembereleventh.org/

but that it brings much of the existing information together in one place . . . and presents a lot of the evidence that's been discussed here and elsewhere regarding what actually happened on 9/11 . . . it's a great resource for those whose only information about 9/11 has come from BushCo and the corporate media . . .

"David Griffin's book is an excellent expose of so many deeply troubling questions that must still be answered fully and transparently if democratic control over political and military leaders is to mean anything at all."

Michael Meacher

British Member of Parliament and former Minister of the Environment