According to a theory advanced by a SINTEF materials scientist, a mixture of water from sprinkler systems and molten aluminium from melted aircraft hulls created explosions that led to the collapse of the Twin Towers in Manhattan.
American security apparatus.
Innocent faith in the dignity of American leadership might shield the bystander from knowing that, despite successful suicide missions, many of those Arab boys are alive and well.Faith strong enough could also shield t
May this be America’s time to move toward authentic power with equitable, moral and spiritual actions—understanding that we are part of the human family. To maintain our current imperialism will invite another 9/11.
“Where was the plane?” The scene is still vivid in her nightmares: rubble, yes, but no aircraft wreckage; smoke and flames, but no jet-fuel inferno.
“I was 50 feet from the impact zone,” Gallop says. “The engine should have been in my lap.”
"There is no longer any doubt as to whether the [Bush] administration has committed war crimes. The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account."
New York magazine reported some telling figures last month on how delayed-notice search warrants -- also known as "sneak-and-peek" warrants -- have been used in recent years.
We Americans become like the moribund Hapsburg Empire which was said to have forgotten nothing and learned nothing. Watching 9/11 commemorations, which have by now become an annual religious-political event, reminds us of this old adage.
"There's no question that al Qaeda and Zarqawi and people were in Iraq," Rumsfeld argued. "They aggregated there."
"If we hadn't invaded, they wouldn't have been there," Zakaria pointed out.
"We don't know that," Rumsfeld insisted. "You don't k
Just two weeks before the 9/11 hijackers slammed into the Pentagon and World Trade Center, members of a Saudi family abruptly left their luxury home near Sarasota, leaving a brand new car in the driveway, a refrigerator full of food, fruit on the cou
Somewhere between Sept. 11 and today, the enemy morphed from a handful of terrorists to the American population at large, leaving us nowhere to run and no place to hide.
Former Assistant Secretary of Housing under George H.W. Bush Catherine Austin Fitts blows the whistle on how the financial terrorists have deliberately imploded the US economy and transferred gargantuan amounts of wealth offshore as a means of sacrif
Much has been done in the name of protecting the American people from terrorism that has reduced our prosperity and liberty and even made us less safe. This is ironic and sad, considering the oft-repeated line concerning the reasoning behind the att
The CIA’s armed drones and paramilitary forces have killed dozens of al-Qaeda leaders and thousands of its foot soldiers. But there is another mysterious organization that has killed even more of America’s enemies in the decade since the Sept. 11, 20
Don't think about anything but the heroes of 911. Don't think about the law...the laws of physics. Don't think about the probabilities. Don't think about the negligence, incompetence and criminal activity beyond that of the terrorists
This day, 9/11, should be about mourning the dead and ending the fighting, and not seen as an excuse for more war and empire. Let us contemplate the real causes of the terror attacks so we can make sure they don't happen again.
Directed by a beardy-guy from a cave in Afghanistan, nineteen hard-drinking, coke-snorting, devout Muslims enjoy lap dances before their mission to meet Allah…
This morning at 8:46 a.m. ET, at the same time Flight 11 hit the North Tower, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg observed a citywide moment of silence. Now, U.S. officials and family members of victims are reading the names of every single victim who lost t