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9/11's Dark Heritage

Dan Collins | Posted 09.10.2009 | 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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Museum Scours World For New Videos Of 9/11 Attacks

AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 09.10.2009 | New York

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NEW YORK — A camera in Brooklyn points through a chain-link fence at black smoke pouring from one skyscraper, while a plane pierces another. Pap...

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No Escape From Guantanamo: The Latest Habeas Rulings

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.10.2009 | 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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Project Rebirth: 9/11, Jim Whitaker, and the Resurrection of Ground Zero

Brad Listi | Posted 09.09.2009 | Entertainment

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Brad Listi

Jim Whitaker is the founder of Project Rebirth, which has chronicled the rebuilding of Ground Zero in New York City for the past eight years. I recently had a chance to speak to Mr. Whitaker.

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Eight Weeks of America's War, Not Eight Years of "Obama's War"

Jonathan Morgenstein | Posted 09.09.2009 | Politics

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Jonathan Morgenstein

The Obama administration is trying to salvage the situation in Afghanistan after the Bush Administration lost the war over eight years.

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World Trade Center Redevelopment Almost Forgotten

The New York Observer | Eliot Brown | Posted 09.09.2009 | 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 09.09.2009 | 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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A 9/11 Reality Check

Robert Scheer | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

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Robert Scheer

What if eight years ago the World Trade Center had been leveled by a small nuclear bomb that took out most of lower Manhattan as well? How many millio...

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Blackwater Contractor Saw Killing Iraqis As 9/11 Payback: Justice Dept

Mother Jones | Daniel Schulman | Posted 11.08.2009 | World

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One member of the Blackwater security team known as Raven 23 regularly bragged about his body count and viewed killing Iraqis as "payback for 9/11." ...

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Government by Lynch Mob -- Obama Should Ignore Critics and Just Lead

Ray Hanania | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

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Ray Hanania

On issue after issue, Obama is acting like he is soon to run for re-election, instead of being a president with a massive mandate still only months into his administration.

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Wall Street Now Wants to Profit by Selling "Death Bonds"

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business

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Raymond J. Learsy

After leading the economy to the edge of the abyss, a new derivative has been concocted in a perverse quest for big and bigger bucks.

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1:1 Proportionality: If You Want War, Why Not Try Fairness?

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

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Stephen C. Rose

I see no reason why in any war there should not be 1:1 proportionality, the idea of killing no more than have been killed by the enemy.

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Chuck Hagel: Iraq And Afghanistan Aren't Ours To Win Or Lose

The Washington Post | Chuck Hagel | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

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These wars have cost more than 5,100 American lives; more than 35,000 have been wounded; a trillion dollars has been spent, with billions more departi...

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A Seven-Step Program to Return America to a Quieter, Less Muscular, Patriotism

William J. Astore | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

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William J. Astore

While ending the steroid era in baseball proved reasonably straightforward once the will to act was present, we as a country have yet to face, no less curtail, our ongoing steroidal celebrations of pumped-up patriotism.

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DDB Brasil Commercial Shows Planes Crashing Into World Trade Center, New York (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 10.18.2009 | New York

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On Tuesday, a tasteless ad that depicted September 11th happening with hundreds of planes instead of two found its way on to the Internet. The ad was...

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Strategic Communications and the Graveyard of Empires

John Brown | Posted 09.29.2009 | World

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John Brown

A conflict between Richard Holbrooke and Admiral Michael Mullen over public diplomacy in Afghanistan could be no more than the usual Washington tempest in a teapot. Or it might reflect a major problem.

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CIA Interrogators Threatened To Kill Detainee's Children: Report

Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

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By STEVEN R. HURST and DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON - CIA interrogators threatened to kill the children of one detainee at t...

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Richard Haass: Obama Wrong, Afghanistan Is A War Of Choice

New York Times | Richard N. Haass | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

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SPEAKING on Monday to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Phoenix, President Obama could not have been more definitive. "We must never forget," he said of...

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Kim Dae Jung: A Hero for Peace

Mary Wald | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

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Mary Wald

Elegant is the first word that comes to mind. He was warm, with an IQ that kept you mentally running to keep up. He defied death, worked in the face of oppression and gave his all.

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9/11 Memorial Preview Site Opening Near World Trade Center Site

AP | AMY WESTFELDT | Posted 09.18.2009 | New York

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NEW YORK — Tourists coming to ground zero to see the Sept. 11 memorial often peer through a fenced-off construction site for a glimpse and ask s...

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Interrupting Unfriendly Persuasion

Carol Smaldino | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

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Carol Smaldino

When persuasion is used without regard for the other person, when it becomes sadistic and reckless endangerment, it is what we have come to know as torture.

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Has Islamophobia Run Amok in America?

Sheldon Filger | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

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Sheldon Filger

As America becomes increasingly seen as hostile to Muslims irrespective of who they are, while China is perceived as welcoming, these trends will translate into economic realities.

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Newspapers, Not Books, Are the Key to Engaging Budding College Students

Danny Groner | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media

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Danny Groner

The acts of reading the newspaper and participating in conversation about current affairs are worth more to young college students than interpreting foreign works, no matter their messages.

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What Would Be the Result of Quitting AfPak?

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 09.12.2009 | World

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Stephen C. Rose

In essence, if we avoided a disproportionate response, we would be doing what I believe we should have done after 9/11. We didn't and look what happened.

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Bridges of Rhetoric and Suspicion

Abukar Arman | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

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Abukar Arman

We must build bona fide bridges of understanding to significantly reduce elements hindering the ability of the US and Muslim world to work together on critical issues of mutual importance.

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