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9/11: How I Lost the Country I Used to Know and the Person I Used To Be

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. September 11, 2011.

On September 11, 2001, I was lucky. I didn't lose anybody close to me -- except my country and the person I had been before.

We Need to Declare the End of the 9/11 Era

Jonathan Freedland, Comment Is Free. September 7, 2011.

Mark the September 11 anniversary with care, then stop the lethal thinking and the grave misjudgements it caused.

Why Is There a Christian Cross at the 9/11 Memorial (But No Representation of Other Faiths or Atheism)?

Dave Silverman, Comment Is Free. August 2, 2011.

Religious symbols of any type have no place at the World Trade Center memorial unless they represent all faiths--and those of no faith--equally.

9/11 Families Ask: What Happened to the Third Building That Collapsed in the WTC Attacks?

Stephen C. Webster, Raw Story. November 15, 2010.

A new ad campaign featuring the family members of 9/11 victims, which does not focus on conspiracy theories, is getting serious treatment in the mainstream media.

Mosquing the Truth: Imam at Center of Controversy Was a Bush Ally, Hails From Sect Targeted By al Qaeda

Andrew Belonsky, Death+Taxes. August 17, 2010.

Sufis like the Feisal Abdul Rauf are reviled and targeted by al Qaeda. So why does Newt Gingrich pretend they're one and the same?

Birther Whack Jobs: Citizens of Idiot America

Dan Kennedy, Comment Is Free. July 30, 2009.

Join MoveOn's fight take on Lou Dobbs and put this paranoid and racist movement to an end.

Sarah Palin Links Iraq to 9/11

John Nichols, The Nation. September 12, 2008.

Palin has repeated the long discredited claim that the invasion of Iraq was a necessary response to the September 11th attacks.