Tim Wise, AlterNet. September 17, 2001. If an angry white American had plotted the 9-11 attacks, would talk of "Kill the Arabs!" have been replaced with "Kill the Crackers?" Would we bomb the cornfields of "middle America" to take out a few anti-government types?
L.A. Kauffman, AlterNet. September 17, 2001. It's now official: In the wake of the September 11 disaster, the IMF and World Bank have indefinitely postponed their planned late-September meetings, with uncertain repercussions for the anti-corporate globalization movement.
Mark LeVine, AlterNet. September 15, 2001. American and Israelis now have two frightening commonalities: the death of any sense of ordinary security and the lack of honest introspection about policies that produce hatred and violence.
David Corn, AlterNet. September 14, 2001. Extremism reigns in post-WTC America as calls for action emanate from television sets and op-ed pages denying all a full understanding of the event and what led to it.
Elijah Wald, AlterNet. September 14, 2001. People running the country are long-time supporters of terrorism, and they are among those shouting loudest for a strong and united response to the current crisis.
Michael Moore, AlterNet. September 14, 2001. I am an American citizen, and my leaders have taken my money to fund mass murder. And now my friends have paid the price with their lives.
Stephen Zunes, AlterNet. September 14, 2001. Instead of focusing on further militarization, the U.S. should improve intelligence and reexamine its Middle East policy, which has been based upon alliances with repressive governments.
Neil Skene, Creative Loafing (Atlanta). September 14, 2001. If history is any indicator, we can all expect our civil liberties to take a back seat to the war on terrorism.
Beatrice Motamedi, Pacific News Service. September 14, 2001. The terrorist attack on America is a chance for the Bush administration to do the right thing. Instead of waging war it could broker a real peace to avert future terrorism.
Norman Solomon, AlterNet. September 14, 2001. On Friday, the Senate voted 98-0 for a war resolution. Written as a blank check, it is only payable with vast quantities of human corpses.
Daoud Kuttab, AlterNet. September 14, 2001. The democratic values that America stands for are the envy of well-informed people around the world. But these values are often distorted by those on the receiving end of empty rhetoric and U.S. foreign policies that perpetuate violence.
Gary Kamiya, Salon. September 13, 2001. Osama bin Laden is being called a primary suspect in Tuesday's attacks. If he is behind them, the U.S. is confronting one of the most stealthy and formidable foes in its history.
Jim Slama, Conscious Choice. September 13, 2001. Will our almost inevitable military actions provoke more terrorism against America? Or can we break the cycle of violence before it starts? Peace activist Satish Kumar thinks so.
Norman Solomon, AlterNet. September 13, 2001. In our struggle to understand the recent tragedy, the media has let us down with its selctive silence around important information. What we don't know can hurt us.
Rahul Mahajan, AlterNet. September 13, 2001. As the calls for war grow louder, a different kind of response has been building as well: outspoken citizens across the country cautioning against rash, massive retaliation.
Tim Wise, AlterNet. September 13, 2001. Soon, I will have to tell my young daughter about Tuesday's mass death. Will I also have to explain our retaliation, our infliction of more mass death to show others that our collective national dick is the biggest?
Naomi Klein, AlterNet. September 13, 2001. War is most emphatically not a game, but until September 11, most Americans treated it like it was. Perhaps Tuesday's attacks finally ended the era of the video game war.
Arianna Huffington, AlterNet. September 13, 2001. The First Amendment isn't a license to make billions, it's there to guarantee that the people are informed. In this, the media have failed and we all suffer.
Geov Parrish, AlterNet. September 12, 2001. What hopefully died on September 9, 2001 was not our economic, military, or political isolationism; it was the willful cultural isolationism of the American people.
Jason Vest, AlterNet. September 12, 2001. Joe Vallone, the U.S. Army's environmental technology chief, crossed the threshold of his office in Corridor 5 of the Pentagon's D ring a few minutes shy of 8 Monday morning...
Stephen Zunes, Foreign Policy in Focus. September 12, 2001. Washington has used the threat of Islamic fundamentalism as a justification for keeping a high military, economic and political profile in the Middle East. Yet it has often supported Muslim hardliners when they were perceived to enhance U.S. interests, as they did in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. A background report from a professor of MidEast politics.
Dan Kennedy, Boston Phoenix. September 12, 2001. Media coverage of the worst terrorist attack in American history is full of reactions rather than reporting and irresponsible conjecture about the Taliban's responsibility.
Fariba Nawa, Pacific News Service. September 12, 2001. An Afghan American writer living in Brooklyn wonders what might happen when officers sent to prevent a racial backlash against Arab Americans leave her neighborhood.
James E. Garcia, PoliticoMagazine.com. September 12, 2001. U.S. revenge on those responsible for Tuesday's tragedy will only widen the country's wounds and fuel hatred for America.
Michael Moore, AlterNet. September 12, 2001. Let's mourn and grieve, but let's also examine our own contribution to our unsafe world -- be it lax airport security or the CIA training the terrorists who attack us.
William O. Beeman, Pacific News Service. September 12, 2001. The media is pointing fingers at Osama bin Laden, but the causes of his anger are rarely discussed. Here is why he and his followers hate the U.S. so violently.
Danny Schechter, MediaChannel.org. September 12, 2001. Most Americans spent September 11 glued to their television sets, trying to understand. But amid the grim footage and "expert" interviews, many of the most pressing questions were never addressed.
Geov Parrish, AlterNet. September 12, 2001. The political left has an enormous amount of work to do -- right now, today, immediately -- to prevent our government from making a bad situation much, much worse.
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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.
