9/11

Chas Freeman: The Middle East, America, and the emerging world order

by News Sources 11.30.2012

From a speech delivered by Chas Freeman in Moscow yesterday: The objective of the 9/11 attacks was to provoke the United States into military overreactions that would enrage and arouse the world’s Muslims, estrange Americans from Arabs, stimulate a war of religion between Islam and the West, undermine the close ties between Washington and Riyadh, [...]

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Video: Fear, anger and politics — part 2

by News Sources 09.11.2012

Watch Part One here.

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9/11 at 11: the lost United States of September 10, 2001

by News Sources 09.10.2012

Morris Davis, former chief prosecutor for the military commissions at Guantánamo Bay, writes: September 11, 2001 is a milestone date in history that nearly everyone living at the time will recall in detail for the rest of their lives. I will always remember sitting at my desk in my office at Maxwell Air Force Base [...]

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Video: Fear, anger and politics — part 1

by News Sources 09.10.2012
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A constructive response to 9/11: survivors create worker-owned restaurants

by News Sources 11.11.2011
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Insiders voice doubts about CIA’s 9/11 story

by News Sources 10.15.2011

Rory O’Connor and Ray Nowosielski write: A growing number of former government insiders — all responsible officials who served in a number of federal posts — are now on record as doubting ex-CIA director George Tenet’s account of events leading up to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. Among them are several [...]

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9/11: the tapping point

by News Sources 10.07.2011

David Rose writes: One morning in June 2001, three months before the 9/11 attacks on the United States, I happened to be interviewing a senior official from the British Secret Intelligence Service, M.I.6. His current focus was the war on drugs, not international terrorism, but he shared a piece of information that united the two [...]

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After September 11: our state of exception

by News Sources 09.26.2011

Mark Danner writes: We are living in the State of Exception. We don’t know when it will end, as we don’t know when the War on Terror will end. But we all know when it began. We can no longer quite “remember” that moment, for the images have long since been refitted into a present-day [...]

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Some real shock and awe: racially profiled and cuffed in Detroit

by News Sources 09.14.2011

Shoshana Hebshi writes: Silly me. I thought flying on 9/11 would be easy. I figured most people would choose not to fly that day so lines would be short, planes would be lightly filled and though security might be ratcheted up, we’d all feel safer knowing we had come a long way since that dreadful [...]

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Post 9/11 wars and violations of civil liberties continue

by News Sources 09.14.2011
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Bush ordered investigation to suppress Saudi 9/11 connection

by News Sources 09.13.2011

An interview with Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan, authors of The Eleventh Day, The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama bin Laden. Part Two: Part One:

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Listening Post – 9/11: When truth became a casualty of war

by News Sources 09.13.2011
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9/11 did not start or end at midnight

by News Sources 09.11.2011

Richard Falk writes: There is unacknowledged freedom associated with whatever becomes inscribed in our individual and collective experience of transformative events. For many older Americans the events most vividly remembered are likely to be Pearl Harbour, the assassination of JFK, and the 9/11 attacks, each coming as a shock to societal expectations. I doubt that [...]

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The cowards’ logic that has governed America since 9/11

by Paul Woodward 09.11.2011

In the wake of the September 11 attacks in 2001, a strange consensus quickly emerged in Washington: this was just al Qaeda’s first homeland assault. There would be further attacks and most likely what was to come would be even worse — far worse. With a sense of foreboding and determination we ventured into the [...]

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The 9/11 Decade – The Clash of Civilizations?

by News Sources 09.11.2011
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From New York to Gaza: Swept up in post-9/11 raids

by News Sources 09.11.2011

Al Jazeera reports: Nael Mosallam watched the 9/11 attacks from a rooftop in Brooklyn. He was doing construction work – re-roofing a rowhouse – when another worker tapped him on the shoulder and pointed out a low-flying plane over Lower Manhattan. “Everybody was shocked, nobody moved,” he said. He walked home in a daze, horrified, [...]

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Top secret America

by News Sources 09.09.2011

Part One: Part Two: Part Three: Part Four: Part Five: Watch the full episode. See more FRONTLINE.

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The terrorism industry that hijacked America

by News Sources 09.08.2011

John Tirman writes: The anniversary of the 9/11 attacks has, predictably, loosed a torrent of sentimental accounts of that terrible day ten years ago. They recall the shock and horror at these unprecedented events, the courage of the firefighters, the sadness of the victims’ families, and the traumatic impact to the nation. All of this [...]

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US detention post-9/11: Birth of a debacle

by News Sources 09.08.2011

Lisa Hajjar writes: Days after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration started making decisions that led to the official authorisation of torture tactics, indefinite incommunicado detention and the denial of habeas corpus for people who would be detained at Guantánamo, Bagram, or “black sites” (secret prisons) run by the CIA; kidnappings, [...]

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9/11 documents claim intelligence on Bin Laden, targets withheld from Congress’ probe

by News Sources 09.08.2011
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Rarely seen victims of 9/11

by News Sources 09.07.2011

The Boston Globe reports: “Flight attendant Cameron?’’ the voice from Dallas barks. “Are you going to sign in for your trip? Are you stuck in traffic?’’ Halle Cameron squints at the clock on her nightstand: 7 a.m., Sept. 11, 2001. American Airlines Flight 11 departs in 45 minutes from Logan International Airport, nonstop to Los [...]

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The enduring mysteries of 9/11

by News Sources 09.07.2011

Justin Elliot writes: No small part of the public discourse surrounding Sept. 11, 2001, has been polluted by Truthers — those who believe that the attacks were an “inside job,” or that World Trade Center Building 7 was destroyed in a “controlled demolition,” or that the Pentagon was hit by a cruise missile, despite no [...]

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Endless war served by endless distraction

by Paul Woodward 09.06.2011

Glenn Greenwald writes: The Washington Post woke up a few days ago and realized that despite everything that has happened since 9/11 — no successful Terrorist attacks on the Homeland in 10 years, a country mired in debt and imposing “austerity” on ordinary Americans, and the election of a wonderfully sophisticated, urbane, progressive multinationalist from [...]

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Al Qaeda’s electronic jihad

by News Sources 09.05.2011
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