William D. Hartung, AlterNet. February 11, 2002. The Secretary of Defense is being touted as America's new pinup boy. But this cowboy does not believe in straight talk when it comes to "collateral damage."
Ted Rall, AlterNet. January 10, 2002. Some skeptics say that the Afghan war is about oil, not terrorism. By appointing an oil industry insider as "special envoy to Afghanistan," Bush is fueling their theory.
Carina Chocano, Salon. January 3, 2002. Hey, kids! Ever wonder what it would be like to join the Air Force? You can travel to exotic locations, ride a mechanical bull and jam with Kid Rock in your dorm room!
Norman Solomon, AlterNet. January 3, 2002. When highly regarded news outlets are serving up wild hyperbole in the guise of sober analysis, you gotta figure that some screws in the nation's media machinery are seriously loose.
Aaron G. Lehmer, AlterNet. January 2, 2002. Reports from Afghanistan indicate that rising civilian deaths
there and U.S. policy stubbornness may be encouraging further
terrorist attacks.
Geov Parrish, In These Times. December 26, 2001. Ding, dong, Al-Qaeda's dead. So sing headlines, pundits, and news shows across America. Of course, chances are good that Al-Qaeda still lives. But then, America has never been very good about counting the dead overseas.
Michael Moore, AlterNet. December 20, 2001. Whoopin' the Taliban, bailing out corporate cronies, protecting the NRA with the help of Big Sheriff John Aschroft -- hats off to George, Jr. for a job well done!
Ben Schiller, AlterNet. December 20, 2001. War normally stimulates technology. But now that the Pentagon has bought up every satellite image of the conflict in Afghanistan, it threatens to quash a nascent industry.
Don Hazen, AlterNet. December 17, 2001. Paranoia has gripped America since 9/11, hijacking social progress and undermining freedoms. AlterNet.org's executive editor charts a sensible way to move beyond the fear and build a strong and secure nation.
David Morton, Cleveland Free Times. December 17, 2001. Eleven Israelis were rounded up, questioned and left to rot for weeks in Cleveland area jails. In post 9-11 America, it's not just the usual suspects caught in the government's dragnet.
David Corn, AlterNet. December 14, 2001. In the face of war, Bush may seem more "presidential," but he hasn't grown out of stiffing the poor, exploiting the environment and shoving unilateral decisions down the world's throat.
Deborah James, AlterNet. December 13, 2001. A visit to refugee camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan indicates what the future holds for post-war Afghanistan.
Keith A. Owens, Detroit Metro Times. December 13, 2001. Do African-Americans feel more relieved and less under the gun after the Sept. 11 tragedy because now the pressure is off them and on the Arabs?
Bill Berkowitz, WorkingForChange.com. December 12, 2001. If President Bush is steadfast in his belief that "if they [countries] fund a terrorist, they're a terrorist. If they house terrorists, they're terrorists," look out California!
Will Durst, AlterNet. December 11, 2001. The stuff we need to know, they won't tell us. And the stuff we don't need to know, they won't stop telling us.
Ted Rall, AlterNet. December 10, 2001. When you spend just a few weeks living the same toxic lifestyles as these poor and unlucky souls, you find it's amazing that they live as long as they do.
Arianna Huffington, OverthrowTheGov.com. December 10, 2001. Television ads feature excerpts from a rousing speech the president gave in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, intercut with shots of travel industry employees speaking the impassioned words along with him.
Arianna Huffington, AlterNet. December 6, 2001. What are we to make of John Walker, the 20-year-old All-American kid who turned Taliban warrior? Maybe that Bush's "us vs. them, evil vs. good" talk is only hollow rhetoric.
Nat Hentoff, The Progressive. December 5, 2001. Looking at the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001 in historical context, it is clear that playing fast and loose with civil liberties is a bad idea.
Laura Flanders, WorkingForChange.com. December 3, 2001. Of the 1,200 detained in the post-Sept. 11 anti-terror sweep, 548 remain in custody. Only about a dozen of them, it turns out, have any ties to anything that could remotely be characterized as terrorism.
Ted Rall, AlterNet. December 3, 2001. Despite living in one of the harshest and most embattled regions on earth, Afghanis find many ways to help each other out.
Bob Geary, Independent Weekly. November 29, 2001. The Rev. Ray Buchanan was in Northern Afghanistan last month at a time when American B-52 bombers were still trying to dislodge Taliban troops from the hills near the Northern Alliance headquarters at Khojja Boddin.
Jeff Chang, AlterNet. November 26, 2001. The Hip-Hop generation is poised to take on added importance after 9-11. Can activists and artists of color lead the generation through the crisis?
Don Hazen, AlterNet. November 21, 2001. A rabidly pro-war cadre of journalists and pundits have become cheerleaders for an aggressive and expansive war, urging Bush to escalate the battle beyond Afghanistan and to use more force.
Norman Solomon, AlterNet. November 21, 2001. What television offers today, perhaps more than ever, is anesthesia in the face of apprehension: mind-numbing commercials flanked by checked-out entertainment.
Alan Pittman, Eugene Weekly. November 21, 2001. In "America's New War" the first U.S. casualty may be the First Amendment. The military, Bush administration propaganda and the media itself have squelched news post-Sept. 11.
Jason Vest, Village Voice. November 20, 2001. With Osama bin Laden still at large and no obvious ties between him and Saddam Hussein, taking the fight to Baghdad makes little sense. That hasn't stopped the hawks in D.C. from arguing it does, though.
Michelle Chihara, AlterNet. November 19, 2001. Dissent in the war against terrorism is being labeled as unpatriotic. But love of country doesn't have to be uncritical, or bumper-sticker ready. The daughter of a Japanese American interned in the camps during WW II explains why.
James Ridgeway, Village Voice. November 15, 2001. The Pakistani press is reporting numerous massacres, including the wholesale slaughter of 1,700 Taliban troops, by marauding Northern Alliance soldiers.
Syed Saleem Shahzad, Globalvision News Network. November 14, 2001. With the Taliban's sudden withdrawal to eastern provinces, and with the likelihood of a Northern Alliance government in Kabul, Islamabad is in the very position the Bush administration promised it would avoid.
Laura Flanders, WorkingForChange.com. November 12, 2001. Conservatives like Rush Limbaugh are pressuring the corporate news media to ignore civilian casualties and dissenting views about the war on terrorism.
Tim Wise, AlterNet. November 12, 2001. Recent comparisons between our war on terrorism and WWII break down quickly, but speak volumes about our national need to justify our unjust, unwise military actions.
David Corn, AlterNet. November 9, 2001. If this War on Terrorism is a "good war," wouldn't that be self-evident, with no media manipulation required? Then why is the Bush administration plowing millions into PR campaigns?
Michael Bader, AlterNet. November 9, 2001. While widely reported, the phenomenon of "terror sex" is poorly understood and often ridiculed. Psychologist Michael Bader uses fascinating examples from his practice to show that sex is a normal, even healthy, reaction to trauma.
deleted, Pacific News Service. November 9, 2001. Analysis of the Al Qaeda Handbook and newly emerging clues about the group prove that it is less of a militant Islamic action group, and more of a classic cult.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet. November 9, 2001. Crying wolf once too often smacks of political opportunism, and risks jading the public to future warnings, even one that might be real. That's the ultimate danger in overplaying the terror card.
Kate Silver, Las Vegas Weekly. November 9, 2001. Bin Laden products, from Al Qaeda condoms to the Osama pinata, are selling like hotcakes. Are the merchants of these terrorist trinkets patriots or profiteers?
Ann Harrison, AlterNet. November 7, 2001. The information blackout surrounding the 1,147 people detained for questioning after the Sept. 11 attacks has civil liberties groups on the hunt.
Robert B. Reich, AlterNet. November 7, 2001. America and other advanced nations have stepped back from globalization. Why? Because of the added risks of a world threatened by terrorism.
Justin Rood, AlterNet. November 6, 2001. The "peace industry," as one could call it -- the manufacturers of anti-war buttons, T-shirts, and bumper stickers -- is booming.
Joshua Mamis, New Haven Advocate. November 6, 2001. Since Sept. 11, I've wrestled with the red, white and blue during many sleepless nights. Then, one day while driving to work, it hit me. I could invest the flag in new symbolism.
Ann Harrison, AlterNet. November 5, 2001. The new anti-terrorism bill signed on Oct. 26 may open the door for a wide array of civil rights and liberties violations.
Geov Parrish, WorkingForChange.com. November 5, 2001. Humanitarian organizations warn that even before the bombing of Afghanistan began on Oct. 7, some 7,500,000 Afghans were at risk of starving to death this winter.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet. November 5, 2001. Bioterror attacks may be more likely to come from the makeshift labs of domestic extremists than from terror camps and bioterror chemical labs in Afghanistan, Libya, or Iraq.
Sidney Frigand, AlterNet. November 5, 2001. Government and airline sources revealed yesterday that drastic new security measures, like depriving passengers of belts and ties, will soon be in place.
Michael T. Klare, AlterNet. November 5, 2001. Bin Laden never mentions it in his calls for a jihad, and neither does Bush in his calls for a war against terror. But oil is central to both their plans, and Saudi Arabia is the key.
Don Hazen, AlterNet. November 2, 2001. In the wake of Sept. 11, our paralyzed citizenry has allowed social setbacks and corporate greed to flourish under a smoke screen of patriotism. But now is the time, as Bill Moyers explains in a stirring address excerpted here, to resist those who would exploit our national tragedy.
David Corn, AlterNet. November 2, 2001. After media warhawks declared the U.S. was "losing the first round of the war," bombing raids intensified. Coincidence, or pandering to the blow-'em-to-bits crowd?
Matt Bivens, The Nation. November 1, 2001. When it comes to this former Soviet republic, the U.S. government is divided, with State wanting better human rights and the Pentagon wanting bases and Tashkent's willing cooperation.
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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.
