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911 Anniversary

Punishing September 11 Culprits: Some Inmates Weigh In

Joseph Cooper | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

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Joseph Cooper

Shouldn't a victim of crime have some say in how his or her attacker is dealt with? What's so wrong with retributive justice? I've posed these questions to inmates at a facility where I teach.

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I've Got My 9/11 Story. What's Yours?

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

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Steve Rosenbaum

For the past eight years, the most important story regarding 9/11 has been locked away, hidden, out of sight. Today is the time to open that drawer, take that story out and share it with the world.

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A 9/11 Remembrance: One Extraordinary Life Out of Many

Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

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Brian Levin, J.D.

One way to begin to understand the magnitude of a numbing mass tragedy like 9/11, is not in numbers, but rather, in stories. Today's focus here is one story of many that demand to be told.

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As It Should Be: Moving On From 9/11

Mike Doyle | Posted 11.10.2009 | Chicago

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Mike Doyle

You can hold onto the past only for so long until looking backward becomes fear of moving forward. Sometimes a day should just be a day.

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The Politicization of 9/11

David Paine | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

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David Paine

After an article appeared in the American Spectator, the 9/11 Day of Service and Remembrance -- and the organization behind it -- became political ammo aimed at President Obama.

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On 9/11, Day Of Mourning Becomes Day Of Service

AP | SUZANNE MA | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York

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NEW YORK (AP) - Drawing on the spirit that spurred volunteers to rush to the burning World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, Americans looked for ways t...

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9/11 Events In New York City

Huffington Post | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York

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As usual, there is a multitude of events happening tomorrow to honor the anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Here is a brief rundown of what's...

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Teaching Our Kids About 9/11

Danielle Crittenden | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

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Danielle Crittenden

My youngest child, Beatrice, has no idea how intimately her pre-natal existence and early infancy is tied up with 9/11, at least in my memory.

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Instinct of an American Hero

Michael Smerconish | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

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Michael Smerconish

The publication of Instinct will provide Jose Melendez-Perez, a true 9/11 hero, with the well-deserved recognition he's never had among the general populace.

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9/11's Dark Heritage

Dan Collins | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York

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Dan Collins

We still haven't quite acknowledged that our leaders never adequately warned the men and women working around the smoldering site that the place where they were flinging themselves into duty was a toxic landmine.

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No Escape From Guantanamo: The Latest Habeas Rulings

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

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Andy Worthington

Rulings made by District Court judges in the habeas corpus appeals of prisoners held at Guantánamo seemed to confirm that the courts were uniquely placed to deliver justice to the prisoners.

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New Khalid Sheik Mohammed Photo Surfaces Days Before 9/11 Anniversary

Huffington Post | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

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A new photograph of Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM), one of the accused masterminds of 9/11, surfaced on the internet on Wednesday, the Miami Herald repor...

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World Trade Center Redevelopment Almost Forgotten

The New York Observer | Eliot Brown | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York

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For years, the World Trade Center occupied a prominent stage in New York politics, as elected officials jostled over questions of design, governance a...

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A 9/11 Anniversary Call for Public Service

Laurie M. Tisch | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York

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Laurie M. Tisch

I can't imagine a more appropriate manner in which to observe this solemn anniversary and honor the memory of Sen. Kennedy than through public service.

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Bush's Final Gift: Gaza

Eric Margolis | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics

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Eric Margolis

Just when we thought it was impossible for the calamitous George Bush and Svengali Dick Cheney to do any more damage to the world or to America's inte...

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India's '9/11' Holds Grim Message for the U.S.

Eric Margolis | Posted 01.05.2009 | World

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Eric Margolis

India's patience is wearing thin. After a decade of terrorist attacks, it still lacks a well defined target for revenge or a way of preventing them.

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Middle East Bloggers Remember 9/11

Amira Al Hussaini | Posted 10.13.2008 | Home

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Amira Al Hussaini

Bloggers from the Middle East reflect on the pivotal day for the United States and around the world. "I buy all the events of 9/11... I just don't buy anything from 9/12 onward."

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Seven Years Later, a Service Mandate

Jon Host | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics

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Jon Host

I remain suspect of what McCain means when he speaks of "service." Every time he mentions it, his first reference is to the military.

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Thoughts on 9/11...and Our Future

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 10.12.2008 | Living

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Marcia G. Yerman

Every 9/11, it becomes personal. This year, with the election upon our country, the intensity of remembrance feels even more powerful.

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Pentagon Dedicates 9/11 Memorial

Washington Post | Debbi Wilgoren, Nick Miroff and Robin Shulman | Posted 10.12.2008 | Home

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President Bush today dedicated the Pentagon Memorial as "an everlasting tribute to the 184 souls who perished" when a hijacked jetliner exploded into ...

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Seven Years Post 9-11: Are We Safer?

Jamal Dajani | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics

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Jamal Dajani

There is still no real effective way to combat terrorism. Al Qaeda exists in places it never has been in before like Iraq, Algeria and Somalia. Bush's War on Terror has failed.

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Remembering 9/11 and Moving Forward

Rep. Dennis Kucinich | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics

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Rep. Dennis Kucinich

America must move from the errant, retributive justice of 9/11 to a healing, restorative process of truth and reconciliation.

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Obama Camp: Saving Counterpunch For After 9/11

Washington Post | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics

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Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign launched a broadside against Sen. Barack Obama yesterday, accusing him of a sexist smear, comparing his campa...

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Study: 70,000 may suffer post-9/11 stress disorder

AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics

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NEW YORK — New data from a public health registry that tracks the health effects of 9/11 suggest that as many as 70,000 people may have develope...

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Pentagon Memorial To 9/11 Will Be Dedicated Tomorrow

REUTERS | Andrew Gray | Posted 10.11.2008 | Home

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - On the morning of September 11, 2001, Patrick Smith was walking toward a television set in a Pentagon office to get news of the...

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