Ted Rall, AlterNet. September 11, 2002. Americans need a full, open, publicly televised investigation into 9/11, and we needed it last October. We deserve honest answers to the following still-unanswered questions.
Daniel Kurtzman, AlterNet. September 10, 2002. The decline of poitical satire in the aftermath of Sept. 11 has proved to be short-lived. Bush, Ashcroft, and terrorism are now fair game on the late-night talk show circuit.
Juan Gonzalez, In These Times. September 10, 2002. Environmental and city officials repeatedly withheld clear evidence of toxic contamination around Ground Zero for political reasons.
John K. Wilson, AlterNet. September 10, 2002. A new book of essays, speeches and personal testimonials urges Americans to defend the Bill of Rights from attack by the Bush Administration.
Tom Hayden, AlterNet. September 10, 2002. In this excerpt from the book, "It's a Free Country," Tom Hayden explains how conservatives are playing patriot games with the nation's future.
Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. September 9, 2002. The events of 9/11 should be commemorated not with patriotism or mass despair, but with a call for peace and compassion. And activists across the country plan to do exactly that.
Sandy Zipp, In These Times. September 4, 2002. The memory of the World Trade Center is up for grabs right now, and the debate over a memorial will galvanize the struggle to win the right to tell the towers’ story.
John Tirman, AlterNet. August 29, 2002. The costs have been enormously expensive on many fronts, but the final dangerous outcome of the "war on terrorism" is the ascending chance of a war against Iraq.
Geov Parrish, WorkingForChange.com. August 27, 2002. Forced to use other means of transportation post-9/11, travelers realized just how annoying flying really is.
Eric Boehlert, Salon. August 26, 2002. The New York Fire Department suffered a communications breakdown on Sept. 11, and hundreds of firefighters died. Why are so many journalists ignoring the story?
Dan Rubinstein, AlterNet. August 21, 2002. In a unique response to post-9/11 security measures, one visual artist is collecting the unwanted photos people take at airport security gates to prove that their cameras are indeed cameras.
Craig Williams, AlterNet. July 30, 2002. In little more than a month, we'll again be buried in the rubble of maudlin, insincere, profit-making reminders of last September.
Mark Weisbrot, AlterNet. June 6, 2002. There has never been an accounting of how much of the FBI's resources are devoted to policing the constitutionally protected activities of our citizens. The time is now.
Jason Vest, deleted. May 24, 2002. For the Bush administration, the Cold War never ended -- so al-Qaeda had to get in line behind more serious enemies.
Bill Berkowitz, The Progressive. May 24, 2002. In an era of heightened surveillance, "Neigborhood Watch" might mean the little old lady next door is a government informant.
Donal Brown, Pacific News Service. May 8, 2002. A bill in Congress -- requiring the Secretary of State and the Attorney General to approve certain visas -- could create a de facto travel ban for ordinary citizens from Iran.
Chris Fitzpatrick, PopMatters. April 24, 2002. How is a sense of security retained in an environment embedded with hidden policies and clauses that come to the foreground only after the fact? The same security measures put in place to protect our privacy have the capacity to strip them.
Andrew Reding, Pacific News Service. April 24, 2002. The cases of Zacarias Moussaoui and Lori Berenson reflect the double standard of the Bush administration when it comes to international tribunals.
Abby Scher, In These Times. April 8, 2002. Amnesty International is targeting the INS for its treatment of 9/11 detainees and apparent obstructions of justice.
Steven Day, PopPolitics.com. April 8, 2002. Freedom is about irreverent and raucous debate. Silence is the trademark of other forms of government that work in the darkness and struggle to keep the will of the people hidden. So why are we being told to keep quiet?
Jill Rachel Jacobs, TomPaine.com. April 5, 2002. "Is it me? Perhaps I'm just shy and prefer moments of nakedness with those more-familiar people in my life; not airport security personnel."
Shepherd Bliss, TomPaine.com. April 1, 2002. Scott Nearing didn't just start the back-to-the-land movement. He was a fierce social and political critic whose writings on modern war and abuses of power ring true today.
Raj Jayadev, Pacific News Service. March 29, 2002. In post 9-11 America, yesterday's model immigrants -- like the South Asians who largely built California's computer industry -- are today's security threat.
Matt Bivens, The Nation. March 29, 2002. Studies of the dangers of nuclear fallout betray grave implications for the use of "mini-nukes" in the war on terrorism. Why have they been supressed?
Michael Scherer, Columbia Journalism Review. March 28, 2002. The Media Research Center, a right-wing media thinktank, is rating the patriotic credentials of top broadcast news reporters. And getting a lot of press for it.
Josie Appleton, Spiked Online. March 22, 2002. Museums are gathering everything to do with 9/11 -- bits of rubble, dust masks, and even aspirins sent to relief workers. What explains this unprecedented rush to collect?
Ruth Rosen, San Francisco Chronicle. March 21, 2002. Life may seem back to normal six months after 9/11. But the veneer of routine hides a stark, unsettling change -- the loss of our democratic freedoms.
Bill Berkowitz, WorkingForChange.com. March 21, 2002. Families of gay and lesbian victims of 911 are being denied relief from the government's Compensation Fund. They are now going to court to demand an end to the discrimination.
Patricia Zengerle, TomPaine.com. March 21, 2002. Experts say the real heartland of violent Islamic extremism is nowhere near President Bush's "axis of evil" -- it's in Western Europe, mainly Britain.
Chris Fitzpatrick, PopMatters. March 21, 2002. The recent CBS documentary on 9-11 is damning proof how a national tragedy has been turned into a marketing bonanza for corporations.
Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation. March 14, 2002. The Secretary of State now has a new list and you better not be on it. Multiplying lists of "terrorist" groups have emerged as a handy tool to suppress dissent.
AlterNet. March 11, 2002. On the six-month anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, we present some of the best AlterNet stories examining the aftermath of the tragedy.
Jordan Moss, The Nation. February 28, 2002. With the formation of groups like "September 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows", its getting very difficult to ignore the dissenters in America's War on Terrorism.
Tom Barry, Foreign Policy in Focus. February 28, 2002. Not since the 1950s has the political rhetoric about the fight between American good and foreign-bred evil reached such a feverish pitch.
Anna Sophie Loewenberg, Pacific News Service. February 28, 2002. When President Bush told Chinese President Jiang Zemin recently that "terrorism is a threat to both our countries," Chinese Muslims living in Los Angeles were listening closely.
Jack Shaheen, Pacific News Service. February 28, 2002. Shockingly, since Sept. 11 Hollywood is widening its stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims to include Arab and Muslim Americans.
Howard Zinn, TomPaine.com. February 27, 2002. America has been seriously, tragically deceived by the Bush administration's call for an endless war. It's time to strike back.
Jack Shaheen, Pacific News Service. February 27, 2002. Since Sept. 11 bad guys in movies are no longer just Middle Eastern terrorists. They include Arab and Muslim Americans as well.
Patricia Williams, The Nation. February 25, 2002. The expansion of racial profiling in the war against terror will force some people to pay the price for the security of others.
Cynthia Cotts, Village Voice. February 25, 2002. Since September 11, the media have been lost in the fog of war. Here are 10 questions to which journalists either cannot or will not deliver straight answers.
Alisa Solomon, Village Voice. February 21, 2002. The INS has a paradoxical job: to welcome strangers to America--and to keep them out. Can the agency strike a balance in these tense post-9/11 times?
Brett Essler, Artvoice. February 19, 2002. The events of September 11 revived popular support for the death penalty. But opponents of capital punishment say the need for a moratorium is more pressing than ever.
Sandip Roy, Pacific News Service. February 13, 2002. Fallout from the war in Afghanistan is still being felt in the countries of the Middle East and South Asia. Read about the going price for an Afghan girl, Taliban in South Asia, and MTV for Muslims.
Charles Glass, AlterNet. February 11, 2002. Prisoners in Camp X-Ray are shackled, gagged and held in isolation. Is the U.S. government taking its cue from the Hezbollah?
David Roodman, TomPaine.com. February 11, 2002. Propping up Pakistani despots during the Cold War failed miserably. So why is the Bush administration repeating the mistake?
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9/11: One Year Later
As the nation reflects on the one-year anniversary of the attacks, we are blanketed by media coverage from every conceivable angle and confused by powerful emotions. It has been a difficult year, but we are learning to put the event and its aftermath into perspective. It is safe to say that the future in which we find ourselves is very unlike the one we imagined on that dark day a year ago, the day when everything changed.
One of our greatest challenges is to treat 9/11 with respect and sensitivity -- to honor those who were lost and the sacrifices they made, and help each other with the necessary work of moving forward. We have put together this collection of articles, reports, and resources not just to mark a painful day in American history, but also to offer our readers the information they need to make a difference.
What You Can Do
Take part in overnight vigils, peace walks, fasts, concerts, art projects, or teach-ins about peace issues organized by UnitedForPeace.org.
Research
News, reports, and action alerts from Amnesty International on justice and human rights in the wake of the terrorist attacks. Read After the Attack.
