9/11 + 9: makeshift patriots

the anniversary of 9/11:
from reagan & the soviet-afghan war to bush, 9/11 & beyond*
history of wirt dexter walker: russell & co, cia & 9/11*
do the majority of americans blame bush for 9/11?*
america was attacked from within*
construction complete on 9/11 truther memorial*
american muslims nervous about ramadan's end coinciding with 9/11*
obama plans to observe anniversary at the pentagon*
palin to join beck at anchorage 9/11 event*
US wants to buy 1st printing of reservist's memoir*
this 9/11, will terror sites get hacked again?*
list of anniversary events in nyc*
cognitive infiltration: david ray griffin's new book*
condoleezza: i told bush not to come back after 9/11*
condi hung up on george in the the aftermath of 9/11*
secret service tossed 'non-essentials' from bunker*
distress signals indicated planes crashed minutes before flights 11 & 175 hit the wtc*
building 7 implosion: the smoking gun of 9/11*
video: 'zapruder film of 9/11' w/ daniel sunjata*
1,270 architects/engineers reveal hard evidence of explosive demolition on 9/11*
new videos from nist cumulus database posted*
new wtc7 video posted*
9yrs on, no trial in sight for alleged 9/11 plotters*
9yrs + $7b after 9/11, US still waiting for emergency radio networks*

9/11 + 8 flashbacks:
the day before 9/11:
'missing' trillions from the pentagon*
11 points of contention with the 'official story of 9/11'*
9/11 anniversary updates: past, present & future*
9/12 updates: drills & the day after*

9/11 updates: coverup, stand down, talking points & tv

ex-press secertary dana perino says: 'we did not have a terrorist attack on our country during president bush's term'*
video: the process of transformation*
video: 9/11 commissioner kerrey confesses commission couldn't do it's job*
flashback: engineer at wtc site predicts collapse of wtc7*
2 f-16s on alert to counter attacks on dc ordered to stand down on 9/11*
response to critique of griffin's osama bin laden: dead or alive?*
nsa drafted 'retrospective' on 9/11 failings after attacks*


emails show osama was talking point, not target*
video: polls show people are concerned about the truth of 9/11*
flashback: 'prophetic' b-movie delivered to tv, but too real to be shown'*
flashback: '77 film has terrorists attempting to crash explosive blimp into super bowl stadium*
video: 9/11 - the unofficial story*

9/11 updates: military cells, debates, gag orders & satire

awareness of military cell at faa headquarters on 9/11
from history commons: As people who follow the issue closely are aware, there has been some debate over the involvement of a group of military officers stationed at FAA headquarters–generally referred to as the “military cell”–in the events of 9/11. Although I don’t mean to recap the whole debate here, the basic jist is that the 9/11 Commission claimed that the military were unaware of the hijacking of United 93 until a few minutes before it crashed, but what about the military cell–were they too unaware of what was going on? Yesterday, I was reading through the commission documents we have posted at the 9/11 Document Archive at Scribd, and I came across a transcript of FAA communications on the day of 9/11. You can find the following at page 59 (approximately 9:45 a.m. – 9:50 a.m.):

MR. : Tactical Net–

MR. : And this is Cleveland Center. Who’s up?

MR. : It is the Command Center with about five or six people listening.

MR. : Okay. Mr. [inaudible], the chief, just asked if we have any military up or not? Are we pursuing that? We’d like to be able to track this guy (United 93) so we know what’s going on, especially when we lose a transponder.

MR. : We have been in contact with the military cell here in the building and they’re working the issue. I’m not sure where they are with–

Obviously, this does not prove that the military cell at the FAA was aware of the hijacking of United 93 (still less that they passed it on to other elements in the military), but a contemporary reference stating their involvement is certainly interesting evidence.

obama served 9/11 truth in san francisco*
outfoxing the 9/11 coverup*
new statesman's 50 people who matter today: #41 - top truther, david ray griffin; better than jay-z & dan brown*
republicans oppose bringing 9/11 plotters to US for trial*
video: 9/11, the criminal enterprise & its pattern*
historic 9/11 debate on french tv*
ex-cia chief james woolsey handed down gag-order to 9/11 firefighters*
video: stormtroopers' 9/11 - where were you when the death star fell?*

news on the march: 9/11, police state, miltech, geopolitiks & crash

9/11
9/11 memorial ready by 10th anniversary*












9/11 holiday pay for massachusetts police criticized*
video: baer knows guy who ‘cashed out’ day before 9/11*
ex-mi5 chief: response to 9/11 was 'huge overreaction'*
nsa tapped 9/11 hijackers' phone calls for 2yrs - inside the US*
structural engineering council casts doubt on nist's wtc7 report*
video: former ny governor cuomo: 'maybe I should give [9/11] more thought'*
bad link? memorial ties iraq war & 9/11*
video: carol brouillet campaigns for california's 14th district*
former cia official [cofer black]: 9/11 could not be averted*
7yrs after 9/11, spies finally forced to share*
ultimate 9/11 'truth' showdown: david ray griffin vs matt taibbi*

police state usa
vets arrested & trampled at debate*












US not prepared for emp attacks*
US policymakers mull creation of domestic intelligence agency*
washington post: darpa contract description hints at advanced video spying*
saic awarded $18m contract by darpa*
nsa spying & the shredding of the constitution*
US limits anthrax vaccine legal liability*
tsa thug steals $200k worth of travelers' belongings, resells it on ebay*
hospital refuses to draw blood for police cases (video)*
telecom spying amnesty unconstitutional*
56 arrested in darkmarket sting, says fbi*
bamford's dubious sense of irony when it comes to israeli firms cornering the market on nsa's major 'mass surveillance'*
reaction to bamford interview about cia protection of al-mihdhar & al-hazmi*
james bamford on democracy now! (video)*
top nsa scribe takes us inside 'the shadow factory'*
uk ngo forecasts 5 brave new world scenarios for 2030
climate futures: a response to climate change in 2030 (6.7mb PDF)*
after years of stonewalling, new orleans mayor admits illegal gun confiscation*
1 in 3 recent atlanta police academy graduates have criminal records*
bush signs law creating copyright czar*
orwellian uk angers people with tree cameras, snooping kids*

miltech
new video game literally a mind game*

















are troops becoming pill-poppers?*
'dirty bomb' charge fizzles*
iraq war is eugenics/genocide masquerading as an anti-terror op*
dhs says mcveigh isn't a terrorist, but maryland activists are*
detainees fill pentagon dna databank*
video: the 3rd nuclear bomb - a gulf war veterans accusation*
new killer drones could be piloted by teenagers*

geopolitiks
putin's dog gets long-promised gps collar*









despite precautions, US airstrikes kill afghan allies*
video: globalisation - threat or hope?*
sarkozy victim of online robbery*
1000s march in baghdad against US pact*
ex-soviet states to hold joint air defense drills in 2009*
warning over 'huge' terror threat*
report: US to remove north korea from terrorlist*
russia to US: let's team up to fight pirates*
chavez names ‘comrade bush’ a socialist*

econocrash
in hard times some flirt with survivalism (video)*












wachovia posts largest-ever loss for a bank*
homeless numbers 'alarming'*
video: oil & the economic meltdown, alex jones on press tv*
video: richard andrew grove on aig & 9/11*
spies worry hackers could fuel financial panic*
calls for new global financial order increase*
daley to shut down chicago govt for 6 days*
US summons only super elite bankers to meeting*
paulson doles out $125b to wall st elite*
icelandic shoppers splurge as currency woes reduce food imports*
trump: feels like socialism, but i like it (video)*
brown: use this crisis to create new financial world order*
blatant banker manipulation of gold prices*
gas companies disconnecting 1000s*
the quadrillion dollar powder keg waiting to blow*
world bank computer networks under seige*
how to save the US economy *
gm, ford may face bankruptcy on slowdown*
berlusconi: world leaders may close world markets*

news on the march

9/11
senator mike gravel supports nyc 9/11 ballot initiative*
video: former US senator mike gravel endorses nyc 9/11 ballot initiative*
5th, 6th & 7th alleged hijhacking attempts on 9/11 & 9/13,
what happened to the suspects?*
video: talk show host michael reagan wants to kill 9/11 truthers*
video: david ray griffin & new evidence about 9/11*
1st responders from 9/11 gather for day of remembrance*
9/11 chronicle continues...*
un expert's support of 9/11 conspiracy theorists*
critics demand resignation of un official who wants 9/11 probe*
neocon calls for un '9/11 conspiracy theorist' to resign*
lawmaker takes 9/11 doubts global*
cindy mccain hiding war profits, untaxed accounts & pre-9/11 insider trading?*
govt says fbi agents can't testify about 9/11*
9/11 prediction revealed at lindauer competency hearing in nyc*
montreal 9/11 truth to city hall: if there's an attack we won't believe you*
fan mail from an unindicted 9/11 co-conspirator*
pentagon's 9/11 memorial puzzle*

media
video: immortal technique on al-jazeera*
fake airline ads: pay per pound*
video: why you should never talk to cops*
wonder woman finds corpse on potomac river*
drilling down: radio's popularity declining unevenly*
disc-sniffing dog 'manny' dies, cause under investigation*
portland retailers giving vinyl records another spin*
stone's w film must strike balance*
spielberg to direct lockerbie bombing movie*
wikipedia updater fired for scooping nbc on russert's death**
'my first cavity search'*
video: shattered union*
video: speak & spell the new world order*
video: bill hicks on what is the point to life?*

history/mystery
uss liberty & US/israeli covert cooperation*
1967 attack shows how US goes too easy on israel*
new revelations in 1967 israeli attack on american spy ship*
canada apologises for abuse of aboriginal children*
veterans press for info on 1960s chemical tests*
3rd reich to fortune 500: 5 popular brands the nazis gave us*
bbc whitewash: plots, paranoia & blame*
video: rare 1974 interview with carroll quigley*

geopolitiks
davis resignation: unlikely hero of liberal britain shocks establishment*
ireland set to vote on eu dictatorship*
irish say no to military & neo-liberalism*
80% of british law made by european union*
brown wins crunch vote on 42 days detention*
pakistan fury at deadly US strike*
nuke smuggler peddled missile-ready bomb designs*
gingrich: scotus decision 'could cost us a city'*
law school dean calls conference to plan bush war crimes prosecution*
scotus to rule on whether ashcroft can be sued*
report: US gave green light for taliban prison attack*
paki nuke secret spill psyop*
general accuses white house of war crimes*
state of emergency: the US in the final 6 months of the bush administration*
israel holds drill, prepares to attack iran*
US says exercise by israel seemed directed at iran*
US: israeli military carried out iran practice drill*
ex-state dept. official: 100s of detainees died in US custody, at least 25 murdered*
bush army in brzezinski's afghan trap*
south american union will also have common currency*

drugwar
US nabs record amounts of coke*
border patrol agent charged with drug counts*
pot more potent than ever*
legal drugs kill far more than illegal, florida says*
massive dea raids planned for humboldt*

assassinations
more privileges sought for john hinkley*
new documentary suggests second rfk shooter*
winter patriot: rip rfk*
new york times slags documentary suggesting second rfk shooter*
rfk: a legacy of peace through strength*
jfk assassination documentary analyzes conspiracy theories*
james w douglass & the risk of carrying jfk's vision forward*
audio: kboo interview w/ james w douglass of 'jfk & the unspeakable'*
the 2 sides of vincent bugliosi*

envirohealth
forced vaccinations part of dark eugenics agenda*
small town overthrows corporate giant for control of water*
speculation of nuke causing china earthquake*
nasa provides 'explanation' of china earthquake*
mercury in 'green' light bulbs*
poll: most britons doubt cause of climate change*
phoenix lander confirms ice present on mars*
navy vs dolphins: scotus to hear battle over sonar*
new report on bio-war lab danger*

miltech
air force chief, secretary 'resign'*
gates sacks top air force leadership*
bosses nuked, some air force missileers cheer*
nuclear fallout at the air force*
10 more reasons for the air force purge*
israeli surveillance society inspires face-scanning billboards*
nearly 20% of army in afghanistan is on prozac*
video: b2 stealth bomber crashes*
northrop to develop mind-reading binoculars*
how to: visit a secret nuclear bunker*
gitmo interrogators told to destroy handwritten notes*
in debate over permanent bases in iraq, US seeks authorization for war in iran*
george w bush has gotten away with murder'*
bbc uncovers lost iraq billions*
washington post's enduring bush coverup*
in wake of scotus, bush should just put up or shut up!*
US reservist refuses to go to iraq*
canada beefs up kandahar presence after prison break*
wikileaks gets hold of counterinsurgency manual*

police state usa
dc setting up neighborhood checkpoints, warrantless, door-to-door searches*
dc cops to lock down parts of city, demand id from citizens*
washington post covers police state actions in dc*
dc puts itself under surveillance*
dc 'mass evacuation drill' & dnc terror prep*
army reserve teams with dc police to boost employment*
nypd helicopter views faces from miles a way*
nypd spybird flying high*
nyc police adding stun guns to officers belts*
nypd urged to reconsider on stun guns*
taser suffers a rare loss in court*
first jury zaps taser $6m for wrongful death*
1/3 of people shot by taser need medical help*
police teams drill for crowd control*
marine drills will include hollywood-like effects*
wisconsin national guard & police storm high school in wmd exercise*
fbi & dhs behind martial law exercises in indianapolis*
indy star thinks martial law training is good*
nevada terror drills: governor gibbons & vigilant guard*
los angeles losing money on red light cams*
7,000 sites deemed chemical terror targets*
bush pushes biometrics for national security*
7 people arrested for cheering at graduation
cops, guns & the lost idea of river protection*
antonin scalia & police-state rule*
US school district to begin microchipping students*
school says death hoax was necessary*
a special thank you to george w bush*
inside a nwo control grid tradeshow*
spying on americans: dems ready to gut the constitution*
dems agree to expand domestic spying, grant telecoms amnesty*
both sides await scotus ruling on right to bear arms*
ex-pentagon lawyer says he researched 'real manchurian candidate stuff'*

9/11 updates: tribunals, torture, toxic dust & fahrenheit

uk government loses case against supposed '9/11 pilot trainer'

demolition to resume at new york skyscraper damaged by 9/11 after deadly fire

"the government has made it impossible to defend them"

military judge denies motions to delay arraignment of 9/11 suspects

US military officers challenge official account of 9/11

case against 9/11 mastermind in jeopardy

report: military used harsh methods on 9/11 terror suspect

lawyer: detainee dropped from 9/11 case tried to kill self

5 of 6 accused over 9/11 to be tried; charges against '20th hijacker' dropped

charges dropped against 9/11 suspect

US drops charges against 9/11 suspect detained at guantánamo

charges dropped against 'dangerous' detainee who was tortured at guantanamo

michael moore moving forward with sequel to fahrenheit 9/11

fahrenheit 9/11 sequel: michael moore’s chance to tell the truth

big talk from michael moore

'zero: 9/11' - a review

rumsfeld on 2006 election: "the correction for that...is an attack"

rumsfeld's mind: if 9/11 worked, why not try it again

conspiratorially speaking: united flight 93 & 9/11

video: david ray griffin & 9/11 contradictions

watch abc, nbc, cbs, bbc, & fox 9/11 coverage live, original, un-edited
(even the commercials are intact!)

flight 93 memorial prepares for move

flight 93 families want memorial controversy to end

state says 100s of 9/11 rescue workers now dead, admits undercount

richard dolan analyzes orwellian america: 9/11 & the road to iran

video: a forensic analysis of 9/11: questioning the official story

9/11: ventura, saddam, mukasey, olson & specter

jesse ventura joins the 9/11 truth movement
from 9/11 blogger: Jesse Ventura tells Alex Jones that he could kick himself for believing the official 9/11 story at first and wishes he would have raised more questions, questions that still haven't been answered to his satisfaction.

update: the ap picks up the story!

saddam tapes: cia/mossad behind wtc93?
from newsweek: Perhaps most revealing of all was a tape of Saddam's conversations with his ministers after the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993 - a plot linked to a group of Islamic radicals, one of whom, Abdul Rahman Yasin, was an Iraqi-American who fled to Baghdad after the attack... But the newly discovered tape shows that Saddam and his ministers were puzzled by the bombing and wondered whether the "Zionists" or U.S. intelligence were secretly behind it.

mukasey hints US had attack warning before 9/11
from paul joseph watson: During a speech at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Thursday, Attorney General Michael Mukasey tacitly admitted that the U.S. government intercepted a call about 9/11 - before 9/11. Before the 2001 terrorist attacks, he said, "we knew that there had been a call from someplace that was known to be a safe house in Afghanistan and we knew that it came to the United States. We didn't know precisely where it went," reports the San Francisco Chronicle.

update: top dems demand mukasey provide 9/11 memorandum

'9/11 contradictions' excerpt: 3 official denials of ted olson's report of calls from barbara olson
from david ray griffin: Late in the day on 9/11, CNN put out a story that began: “Barbara Olson, a conservative commentator and attorney, alerted her husband, Solicitor General Ted Olson, that the plane she was on was being hijacked Tuesday morning, Ted Olson told CNN.” ... Ted Olson’s report was... the sole source of the widely accepted idea that the hijackers had box cutters. However, although Ted Olson’s report of phone calls from his wife has been a central pillar of the official account of 9/11, this report has been completely undermined.

specter confirms able danger & anthrax coverups
from 9/11 blogger: Questions posed by members of Philly 9/11 Truth to Senator Arlen Specter about the pre-9/11 military intelligence program Able Danger and the post-9/11 anthrax attacks were responded to with a fair degree of candidacy.

9/11: larry, billy, david & yukihisa + lies & coverups

silverstein wants more more more!
from new york times: Larry A. Silverstein, who has won nearly $4.6 billion in insurance payments to cover his losses and help him rebuild at the World Trade Center site, is seeking $12.3 billion in damages from airlines and airport security companies for the 9/11 attack... The size of Mr. Silverstein’s claim was revealed last week at a status conference on the litigation in United States District Court in Manhattan.

bill clinton confronted on wtc7

plus: hillary's 9/11 fabrication
from dick morris: Now that Hillary Clinton has been nailed in an outright fabrication of her role in Bosnia, it is time to remind ourselves of another, even more galling fantasy that Hillary tried to sell the voters... Interviewed on the "Today" show one week after 9/11, she spun an elaborate yarn. The kindest thing we could say was that it was a fantasy. Or a fabrication.

conspiracy theologian
from ventura county reporter: When David Ray Griffin conceived his first book regarding the events of Sept. 11, 2001, his interpretation of what transpired that day revolved around the concept of blowback, that the attacks were a byproduct of America’s decades of aggressive foreign policy toward the Middle East. In short, at the time, he bought the official story of 9/11. He wasn’t letting the United States government off the hook for their role in the attacks, but he wasn’t placing culpability where he would eventually place it: squarely on the shoulders of the Bush administration.

yukihisa fujita at oz 2008 9/11 truth conference
from 9/11 tv: Japanese MP Yukihisa Fujita of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan is the single most important person to step forward to ask hard questions about 9/11 and the “War on Terror” this year. Among the many topics he covered, he called upon the 9/11 Truth movement to extend their presence beyond the Internet to the masses. He recommended the showing of films in public concerning 9/11 so as to create an awareness concerning the realities of September 11, 2001.


asce accused of wtc cover-up
from paul joseph watson: The American Society of Civil Engineers - an organization that was funded by FEMA to investigate the collapse of the twin towers on 9/11 - has been accused of engaging in a cover-up to protect the government, with critics charging the organization falsified conclusions that skyscrapers could not withstand getting hit by airplanes.

9/11: books, bombs & belief

25 intolerable contradictions:
the final undoing of the official 9/11 story
from global research: At last there is a book about 9/11 that politicians & journalists can openly discuss without fear of being labeled "conspiracy theorists". 9/11 Contradictions advances no theories. It simply exposes 25 astonishing internal contradictions that will haunt the public story of this unparalleled event for all time. Until now, the persistent and disturbing questions about the day that changed the world have confused & alienated journalists & politicians.

daniel sunjata on 9/11 truth
from 9/11 blogger: Daniel Sunjata, co-star of the critically-acclaimed FX Network television series, Rescue Me and Tony Award-nominated actor who has performed in film, television and in the theater and who came forward with his support of 9/11 Truth over a year ago tells Alex Jones' national radio audience how upset he is about the recent Geraldo Rivera vilification of 9/11 Truth activists.

top nyc cop thought towers were bombed
from paul joseph watson: Highly decorated former New York City detective Bo Dietl admits that his first instinct on 9/11 was that the twin towers were downed with explosives, as he conceded that he shared many questions about the official story with 9/11 truth activists he had formerly debunked on national television.


9/11 timeline update:
day of 9/11, hijackers & the saudi connection
from 9/11 blogger: There is a ton of new material about the Day of 9/11. There are more entries about the shootdown order, which could have been issued around 9:38 a.m., about 9:50 a.m., after 10:00 a.m., or about 10:18 a.m. Regarding military exercises, some NEADS staff were still unsure whether the day's military exercises had ended at 10:00 a.m., fighters from Otis were recalled from a training mission at about 9:03 a.m. and other jets on training were sent home at about 9:35 a.m. There were communication problems at NORAD and NEADS, which requested help from another air defence section around 10:00, and also for the three pilots scrambled from Langley.

we are change confronts larry silverstein


splc conflates neo-nazi's with 9/11 truth
from southern poverty law center: Also last December, the Church of Jesus Christ Christian, the religious alter ego of the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations, held an organizational meeting at a community center in Longview, a small (pop. 35,000), predominantly white (90%) city in southwestern Washington after announcing its intention to open a new branch there. While 400-500 anti-racist protesters held a simultaneous pro-diversity rally, about 30 skinheads and other neo-Nazis attended the racist gathering, which featured hate rock bands, a reading of poetry based on Viking mythology, and a video about the "myth of 9/11."

zelikow 'made it clear' to 9/11 commission
that richard clarke 'should not be believed'
from thinkprogress: [March 8th]’s Sydney Morning Herald prints an extract from Shenon’s book which provides further details about Rice’s incompetence. "Emails from the National Security Council’s counter-terrorism director, Richard Clarke, showed that he had bombarded Rice with messages about terrorist threats" before 9/11, Shenon writes... But 9/11 Commission staff director Philip Zelikow was not interested in pursuing criticisms against Rice. Zelikow - who had worked closely with Rice on the Bush transition team in 2000 and 2001 - "made it clear to the team’s investigators that Clarke should not be believed, that his testimony would be suspect."

9/11?'s: insider trading, phones, protests & willie!

will kucinich investigate 9/11 insider trading?
from jones report: Congressman Dennis Kucinich revealed that he is initiating an investigation into the insider trading that took place leading up to 9/11, particularly in regards to put options placed on American Airlines and United Airlines stock. Kucinich said that he had personal questions about the implications insider trading had. "I've indicated a long-standing interest in gathering information and trying to get to the bottom of exactly what happened with respect to all the stock activity that took place preceding 9/11." Kucinich said.

did barbara olson call ted on 9/11?
from 9/11 blogger:

"...the FBI put out a report to the Moussouai trial in 2006 in which they contradicted virtually every thing that the public has believed, for example, that Barbara Olson made a call, they say no she didn't..." - David Ray Griffin on the Charles Goyette show, February 20, 2008.

In case anybody was wondering why we don't have Bill Douglas' OpEdNews piece front and center at 911blogger, I just want to point out that what Griffin said wasn't exactly breaking news, the essence of his claim was posted at Pilots for 9/11 Truth last June. Here is the pertinent information from the article by Rob Balsamo and David Ray Griffin:

In the course of doing research for this article, we learned, to our amazement, that even if, contrary to our evidence, Flight 77 did have functioning onboard phones, the US government has now said, implicitly, that Ted Olson’s claim about receiving two calls from his wife that morning is untrue.

download complete david ray griffin interview on the charles goyette show, february 19 (12.2mb MP3)

will ailing 9/11 workers & families protest in dc?
from ny daily news: A convoy of heroes - Ground Zero first-responders and their families - will travel later this month to Capitol Hill to demand government not turn its back on them. Busloads of cancer victims and people crippled by breathing problems and horrific injuries will make the 250-mile trek to Washington to protest a planned slash in health care funding and to demand support from the next President.

willie, juan & 47 seconds of 9/11 skepticism!
from 9/11 blogger: Ya gotta start somewhere... thanks, Willie! This very brief segment from a much longer interview at Democracy Now!, February 21, 2008.

lewis lapham of harper's magazine on 9/11

from 9/11 blogger: On Sunday June 3, Lewis Lapham was featured on a 3-hour program on C-SPAN's "In Depth" program. The program focused on Lapham's intellectual life and times, and took calls from the live C-SPAN viewership. During the course of taking calls, one caller asked about Lapham's views on 9/11 as being something other than the Official Conspiracy Theory. Here is what Lapham had to say:

"As to the question of what happened at 9/11, I am reading at the moment a book by a man named David Griffin, on the debunking of the 9/11 debunking, and he raises a number of sharp questions... which I think deserve further questioning and investigation, but I am not as yet prepared to think that the bringing down of the... trade towers was the work of the Bush administration."

Harper's magazine reflects the current political and social thinking of a segment of America's elite, namely, a segment that reads. It is also a magazine for the reading American public that consider themselves "progressives" generally. Harper's was one of the first publications to print a long critical essay about the 9/11 Commission's Final Report, that still resonates today; Whitewash as public service by Benjamin DeMott.

When a serious thinker, writer, and shaper of the American cultural soul is reading David Ray Griffin, I would have to say that progressives and Leftists who will have no truck with questions about 9/11 need to pause and reflect on this. Knee-jerk time is over. It's time to pick up Griffin's books and become familiar with them, and become familiar with the serious aspects of 9/11 skepticism. Lapham is reading Griffin. After Gore Vidal's endorsement of The New Pearl Harbor, an open-minded Liberal really has no excuse not to give 9/11 skeptics like Griffin a fair shake anymore. This means actually reading the books, not just snarking at them.

See the stream from the C-SPAN archive (approx. 53 minute mark)

Big tip of the hat to "alexjonesfan" who posted a condensed version of this news item at The Randi Rhodes Message Board. Take a minute to write to Harper's and ask Lapham to review Griffin's book: letters(at)harpers.org

also, here is a link to the pertinent audio from alexjonesfan.com

outside the box #103

here is the latest episode of "outside the box," hosted by alex ansary.
it was originally broadcast by portland community media on may 24, 2007.

from alex ansary: Tonight I spoke with a Nick Begich (earthpulse.com), a man considered by many around the world as one of the top experts on Haarp and Mind Control technologies. Later I showed a clip from my recent in person interview with David Ray Griffin. Our news coverage includes a report about an upcoming terror drill in Portland, Oregon. I also discussed the warships in Iran, violence in Lebanon, the gas crisis, Ron Paul, and many other eye opening reports. I conclude this transmission with a reflection on the oneness of energy and the importance of tuning in the frequency of reality that exists for each of us as we face the trials and tribulations in this world.

alex interviews david ray griffin (may 21, 2007)

here is an exclusive video from alex ansary: I was able to catch up with the busy David Ray Griffin during his current speaking tour. His latest book, 'Debunking 9/11 Debunking', is a response to the growing number of hit pieces that have targeted the 9/11 Truth Movement. This video has been created for viewing by those with an open mind who understand that things are not as they appear to be.

'9/11 & american empire' on c-span

from 9/11 blogger: The September 24 KPFA event from Berkeley, CA, will air on C-Span's Book TV this weekend.

Featured speakers:

David Ray Griffin
Kevin Ryan
Peter Dale Scott
Peter Phillips
Ray McGovern

Friday Nov 24th: 4:00 pm EST / 1:00 pm PST
Saturday Nov 25th: 3:30 am EST / 12:30 am PST
10:00 pm EST / 7:00 pm PST

http://www.booktv.org/schedule/

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