Ruppert (publisher and editor of the newsletter From the Wilderness)
charges that the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon were carried out with the complicity and connivance of officials
operating at the highest levels of the US government. He lays out his argument
as if it were the prosecutor's case in a criminal triaThe attacks of September 11, 2001 were accomplished through an amazing
orchestration of logistics and personnel. 'Crossing the Rubicon' discovers and
identifies key suspects -- finding some of them in the highest echelons of
American government -- by showing how they acted in concert to guarantee that
the attacks produced the desired result. Crossing the Rubicon is unique not
only for its case-breaking examination of 9/11, but for the breadth and depth
of its world picture -- an interdisciplinary analysis of petroleum,
geopolitics, narco-traffic, intelligence and militarism -- without which 9/11
cannot be understood. The US manufacturing sector has been mostly replaced by
speculation on financial data whose underlying economic reality is a dark
secret. Hundreds of billions of dollars in laundered drug money flow through
Wall Street each year from opium and coca fields maintained by CIA-sponsored
warlords and US-backed covert paramilitary violence. America's global dominance
depends on a continually turning mill of guns, drugs, oil and money. Oil and
natural gas -- the fuels that make economic growth possible -- are subsidised
by American military force and foreign lending.; In reality, 9/11 and the resulting 'War on Terror' are parts of a massive
authoritarian response to an emerging economic crisis of unprecedented scale.
Peak Oil -- the beginning of the end for our industrial civilisation -- is
driving the elites of American power to implement unthinkably draconian
measures of repression, warfare and population control. This is more than a
story. It is a map of the perilous terrain through which,
