September 11 attacks
The Westboro Baptist Church Comes To Ground Zero On 9/11
NEW YORK — The shout comes from a construction worker across Broadway in Manhattan’s Financial District: “You’re an asshole!” The target is used to such vitriol, even more so than your average New Yorker. But these aren’t New Yorkers. They are members of the Westboro Baptist ...read more
Listen To Dick Cheney Practically Salivate Over a "Far Deadlier" Attack Than 9/11
If your impression of the past 14 years of American foreign and security policy was, "Needs more Dick Cheney," then I have good news for you: You are getting more Dick Cheney. And he's practically salivating over the prospect of a terrorist attack "far deadlier" than 9/11 -- ...read more
Remembering The Victims of 9/11 on Both Sides
By Ben Cohen: I was taking a driving lesson in the UK when I first heard the news about the planes crashing into the twin towers. The lesson finished early and I went home to a stunned family sitting glued to the television. Like the rest of the world, I spent the next few ...read more
Flight 93 memorial: ‘Story still resonates,’ brings influx of visitors
The Daily Banter Headline Grab (via Yahoo! News): The memorial to flight 93 is off the beaten track. The site is a field in rural western Pennsylvania. The area is completely open, with no enclosed building. There is only a walkway that ends in a wall with 40 names. But that ...read more
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World Trade Center Memorial's 'Jaw-Dropping' Price Tag
The Daily Banter Headline Grab (via The AP): NEW YORK (AP) — With its huge reflecting pools, ringed by waterfalls and skyscrapers, and a cavernous underground museum still under construction, the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center is an awesome ...read more
Osama Bin Laden Letters Show Increasingly Desperate Last Days
Letters from Osama bin Laden's last hideaway, released by U.S. officials intent on discrediting his terror organization, portray a network weak, inept and under siege -- and its leader seemingly near wit's end about the passing of his global jihad's glory days. The documents, ...read more
Remembering 9/11
Image via Wikipedia I vividly remember hearing about the twin towers going down in New York back on September 11th 2001. I was taking a driving lesson in London when my driving instructor received a phone call from a family member who told her about the horrific attack. We ...read more
American Socialism: The Useless Weapons Industry
The L.A Times has done a must read piece on the ludicrous amount of money the US government is spending on domestic security measures. The article reports: A decade after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, federal and state governments are ...read more
Are Their Crimes Worse Than Ours?
Glenn Greenwald asks why Bin Laden's crimes against America are deemed uncontroversial (the consensus being that 9/11 was unjustified, criminal and evil), while America's crimes against say, Iraq, are controversial when it seems fairly clear that the latter was far more damaging: ...read more