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Participatory Totalitarianism
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9-11
The Motive for Terrorism That Officials Dare Not Acknowledge
During the war on terror, the military, the Pentagon and the CIA — and their political and corporate allies — have accumulated enormous resources and power in a collapsing economy.
The Hidden Culprit of 9/11: Clinical Depression
Preventing another 9/11 — and suicide terrorism at large — requires addressing abusive childrearing techniques that may well have produced the damaged individuals responsible for it.
Ian Williams’s Lost 9/11 Chronicle, Part II
Since he lived not far from the World Trade Center, it was only natural that Canadian Broadcasting avail itself of his reporting services.
Ian Williams’s Lost 9/11 Chronicle, Part I
Since he lived not far from the World Trade Center, it was only natural that Canadian Broadcasting avail itself of his reporting services.
Jihadi Butch Cassidy
We have, once again, played right into Osama bin Laden’s hands. This might seem like an odd assertion, since the al-Qaeda mastermind is finally dead at the hands of U.S. Special Forces, most heads of state have voiced their congratulations, and practically the entire U.S. citizenry is unified in celebration. But Osama bin Laden always understood that the weak use the weapons of the powerful against them, such as U.S. airplanes against U.S. skyscrapers.
The Undead Chicken
Muammar Gaddafi is the undead chicken. Bashar al-Assad of Syria and King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain are the unscared monkeys. The United States has shaped its policy toward the evolving situation in the Middle East according to the Chinese proverb of “killing the chicken to scare the monkey.” The Obama administration has intervened in the conflict in Libya with the apparent goal of punishing Gaddafi for cracking down on the emerging protest movement back in February. This intervention was designed to send a message to other autocrats in the region: don’t fire on your unarmed opposition — or else. But the United States and its allies are having problems with the “or else” part of the equation.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Sabotaged Prospects for a True Post-War Peace
Along with civilians, indiscriminate targeting eliminates hopes for a secure world.
Americans Don’t Really Believe There Is Such a Thing as a Moderate Muslim
Media’s failure to cover “boring” moderate Muslims leads Americans to believe that most Muslims hate the United States.
Can We Talk?
Law became sexy in the mid-1980s. I still find this a bewildering transformation in American society. At the time, I thought that there could be nothing quite so boring as a court case or a legal brief. But then the TV show L.A. Law debuted in 1986, and lawyers never looked so good. The following year, Scott Turow published Presumed Innocent, and several years after that John Grisham brought out his second novel, The Firm. U.S. publishing was never the same.