9/11 in a Movie-Made World
Tom Engelhardt : What if the Twin Towers hadn't collapsed? Would the Bush Administration have so easily advanced its fear-inspired "war on terror" without the images that played on a culture's secret fears?
Alexander Cockburn analyzes 9/11 conspiracy buffs, Eric Boehlert looks at the Bush-manipulated media, Gary Younge reviews Londonstani.
Articles
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Arab America's September 11
Moustafa Bayoumi : Arab Americans are experiencing something similar to McCarthy-era redbaiting, but the cold war performed better on racial justice than Bush's "war on terror."
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A Light in Brooklyn
Moustafa Bayoumi : In Brooklyn, a beleaguered Arab-American community copes with bigotry and heightened government scrutiny post-9/11.
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Cashing In on Catastrophe
Wayne Barrett & Dan Collins : Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is now using his public image, burnished by 9/11, to conceal crooked business deals and reap handsome profits from a national tragedy.
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Politics, the Media and 9/11
Eric Boehlert : Since September 11, the Bush Administration has repeatedly exploited the threat of terrorism for political ends, from dirty bombs to sleeper cells to electoral politics.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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The Path From 9/11
: The fifth anniversary of 9/11 prompts grief and sadness, but also anger. We must free ourselves from the idea that the "war on terror" is an organizing principle for our foreign policy.
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Taking Liberties
Knock on Wood
David Cole : The Bush Administration's illegitimate use of renditions, disappearances, torture and an illegal war has fostered the growth of a loose-knit global band of fanatics willing to do unspeakable violence against us.
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Plame's Role at the CIA
David Corn : Valerie Plame was no CIA paper-pusher. She was searching out intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
Reviews
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book
Ottoman Ghosts
Daniel Lazare : Caroline Finkel's new book, Osman's Dream, explores the rise and calamitous fall of the Ottoman Empire.
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Londonistan Calling
Gary Younge : Gautam Malkani's new novel explores the cross-section of youth culture, heritage and identity in London's polyglot, postcolonial neighborhoods.
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Unsentimental Education
Christopher Hitchens : A new memoir by Robert Hughes reveals the idiosyncratic sensibility of a celebrated art critic.
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film
Big in Japan
Stuart Klawans : Reviews of Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles, Hollywoodland and This Film Is Not Yet Rated.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
George Bush's Pledge to the People of New Orleans on the Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
Calvin Trillin : The President gives us a lesson in drive-by personal diplomacy.
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BEAT THE DEVIL
The 9/11 Conspiracy Nuts
Alexander Cockburn : August Bebel once called anti-Semitism the socialism of fools. These days, the 9/11 conspiracy fever is fast becoming the "socialism" of the left.
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SUBJECT TO DEBATE
Islamo-Fascism--Take Two
Katha Pollitt : If we really want to understand the Muslim world, we should start by acknowledging that today's "fascists" were yesterday's freedom fighters.
Web
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Stargazer
Arthur C. Danto : Andy Warhol's eye for significant banality transformed the familiar into art. Ric Burns's new American Masters documentary traces the roots of Warhol's smirking genius.
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A Passion for Pluto
Marla Geha : Pluto's demotion from a planet to a dwarf isn't the work of mean-spirited Grinches. It is a necessary part of the same process that got Pluto discovered in the first place.
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Bush's Sitcom Nominee
Celia Viggo Wexler : Warren Bell honed his reputation writing sitcoms and lobbing politically incorrect bombs for National Review Online. Now he's Bush's nominee for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's board of directors.
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TruthDig
Failing the Test
Robert Scheer : President Bush was correct when he said that not since the cold war has the nation been so tested. But the test lies not in the terror threat but in his Administration's incompetence.
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The Real Tragedy
Eric Weinberger : Five years after the attack, Americans are impatient and angry about what has been done in their name. Our national tragedy is not September 11 but the war in Iraq, an agony that promises to go on for years.
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ABC 9/11 Docudrama's Right-Wing Roots
Max Blumenthal : How conservative zealot David Horowitz produced and promoted ABC's flawed docudrama, The Path to 9/11.
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US Dedicates $64 Billion to Undermining Gates Foundation Efforts
Director Of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte gives details.
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Chaos and Fear Stalk Afghanistan on 9/11 Anniversary
Christian Parenti : As Taliban fighters clash with thinly spread NATO forces across Afghanistan and "suicide cell" claims lives daily in Kabul, hope is fading that the country can avoid descending into chaos.
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Gaping Holes Remain in the 9/11 Story
Robert Scheer : It's no wonder so many Americans are examining alternative explanations that range from the plausible to the absurd.
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A Just Response
Katrina vanden Heuvel : The most effective response to terrorism involves nonmilitary actions in cooperation with the global community and within a framework of domestic and international law.
Cover by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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