A special 9-11 video (30 secs) The latest version of my annual 9-11 essay (first appeared in 2008), George W. Bush, Agent of al Qaeda can be found here. Or here. I was against the war in Iraq from before the beginning, and I have always been against Guantanimo detention, "extraordinary rendition" and the sick spectacle of Bush and Cheney bragging about their war crimes, but this is not the time nor place to elaborate.
Although I’ve already written about the mistakes we made after 9/11/2001 and what we need to do differently . . . in two previous posts* . . . with the added factor of current threats for this weekend, I want to help you help yourself and those you love ahead of time. So here’s a short post to begin the process, and you can also refer to the other posts to help you understand further and go deeper. As...
As we approach and move through the 10th anniversary of September 11th, our media has such an opportunity to help. To help every single one of us and to help our families, communities, and country. But the media won’t fulfill that potential if they only address the experience people had on September 11, 2001 and the experiences they’ve had individually and communally in our world since that day. There are some very responsible media people who have done courageous...
I had been planning to write a post with the heart of the one below in honor of September 11th, ten years later. But after the tragedy in Norway on the 22nd, I know the time is now. Dear citizens of Norway . . . My heartfelt empathy is with you as you mourn the attacks – whatever the source – on your country, your people, your children, your democracy, your peace, your safety! From my experience on and...
I’m really dating myself here, but years before Fox News and all of the other political shoutfests even existed, I used to watch a TV program called Crossfire. Airing nightly on CNN back in the 1980s and 1990s, Crossfire was perhaps the primordial political shouting match. And it featured two hosts, one each “from the left” and “from the right,” as the opening announcer intoned. The regulars were liberal Mike Kinsley and conservative Pat Buchanan. Kinsley, then as now,...
Bush: “The work that was done by intelligence communities during my presidency was part of putting together the puzzle that enabled us to see the full picture of how bin Laden was communicating and eventually where he was hiding,” he said. “It began the day after 9/11. Cheney: Some of my colleagues may have forgotten that but in fact everybody who was a member of the national security council was informed about the essence of the (torture) programme and...
Progressives who fretted whether President Obama would “go big” with his jobs speech Thursday night apparently needn’t have worried. Many on the left, including organized labor, warmly embraced the $447 billion in job-creation proposals that the president outlined in his televised address to a joint session of Congress. Leo Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers union, called Obama’s American Jobs Act a “bold jobs plan.” “President Obama has made it clear to us that job creation is his top...
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Walter Brasch has written dozens of columns, human interest stories, and investigative articles about 9/11 and its effects. He was one of the first to write about the PATRIOT Act violating civil liberties and parts of the Constitution. He was one of the first, using extensive investigation techniques and inside information, to question the statements from the Bush–Cheney Administration about the reasons for the impending invasion of Iraq. This column, written about a month after 9/11 shows...
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