The excellent three-part BBC documentary The Power of Nightmares is to be broadcast again this week.
The Power of Nightmares will be broadcast over three nights from 18 to 20 January at 2320GMT on BBC Two. The final part has been updated in the wake of the Law Lords ruling in December that detaining foreign terrorist suspects without trial was illegal.
I watched it when it was originally broadcast and believe it to be an eye-opening experience for those people that have been convinced by their governments dire warnings of the threat of global terrorism.
The three part series tries to get to the truth of the threat facing us behind the politicians rhetoric and the media’s sensationalist headlines.
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.
In a new series, the 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.
Part I: Baby It’s Cold Outside
Part II: The Phantom Victory
Part III: The Shadows in the Cave
Tags: Adam Curtis, security, terrorism, TV
