Who Really Rules The World

4 Health – Drugs
Channel 4's Health site gives the facts on drugs, everything from physical and mental health to the law, through features and personal stories.

Beyond Belief?
Half of us have no idea what happened to Christ at Easter. But apparently, ignorance about our heritage does not stop us yearning for a religious framework in our lives.

Building the Best
This site looks at the cultures, styles and techniques that feed structural developments around the globe – on land, on water and in the air.

David Icke
Icke expounds his views, from global governance to reptilian bloodlines, with articles and information on a wide range of subjects.

Hallowed Be Thy Game
Karl Marx said religion is the opiate of the people; the same claim has been made about football. But is football itself becoming a religion?

Paranoia Paradise
Interesting article that attempts to unravel what it is that makes a good conspiracy theory.

Shariah TV
Offers young Muslims the chance to discuss the dilemmas and prospects they face in their day-to-day lives, with the help of a variety of Muslim clerics.

Top Ten Conspiracy Theories of 2002
An informal but nonetheless disturbing look at the conspiracy theories that emerged post 11 September 2001.

Weird Worlds
Travel into the unknown, through the frontiers of mystery, conspiracy, spooks and intrigue.

WH Spliff
News, views and FAQs on this site, with good coverage of the ‘war on drugs’.

Books

The Da Vinci Code: The illustrated edition by Dan Brown (Bantam Press, 2004)
Brown masterfully concocts an intelligent and lucid thriller that marries the gusto of an international murder mystery with a collection of fascinating material culled from 2000 years of Western history. This edition has photographs and drawings.
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Dreaming War: Blood for oil and the Cheney-Bush junta by Gore Vidal (Clairview Books, 2003)
Vidal calls for a more thorough investigation into the response from the 'Cheney-Bush junta' on 11 September and purports that corporate greed and US imperialism have been the driving themes behind this new war on terror. He explores the oil connections that Osama bin Laden's family established with Bush during his tenure as an oil magnate in Texas.
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Football Against the Enemy by Simon Kuper (Orion, 2003)
The author travelled to 22 countries to look at how football became a potent force in the lives of billions of people. He focuses on national, political and cultural identities, where football is the medium through which the world's hopes and fears, passions and hatreds are expressed.
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The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln (Arrow, 2004)
The authors spent over 10 years on their own kind of quest for the Holy Grail; looking into the secretive history of early France. What they found is a tangled and intricate story of politics and faith that reads like a mystery novel.
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Our Final Century?: Will the human race survive the twenty-first century? by Martin Rees (Allen Lane, 2004)
This well-respected astronomer spells out doomsday scenarios for cosmic collisions, high-energy experiments gone wrong, and self-replicating machines that steadily devour the biosphere. If we can avoid driving ourselves to extinction, he writes, a glorious future awaits; if not, our devices may very well destroy the universe.
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The Spike: How our lives are being transformed by rapidly advancing technologies by Damien Broderick (Tor Books, 2002)
A look beyond the jargon for the next biggest, or indeed smallest, innovation. Asks how we can hope to retain our humanity once we have the technical ability to alter, amend and specify the very building blocks of our own species.
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