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.
The Hidden Culprit of 9/11: Clinical Depression
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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.
The Imperial Mentality and 9/11
This is, of course, the week before the tenth anniversary of the day that “changed everything.” And enough was indeed changed that it’s easy to forget what that lost world was like. Here’s a little reminder of that moment just before September 11, 2001
Saudis: “We’re Killing Too Many Civilians in Yemen? Then Give Us Drones”
The Islamist specter in Yemen is driving cooperation between the U.S. and the Saudi government with its questionable human rights record.
Did 9/11 Make Peace Passe?
Peace has never been a particularly popular word in Washington, DC. This is, after all, the home of the Pentagon and the major military contractors, not to mention all the think tanks and congressional lapdogs that lie in the king-size family bed with them. But the word “peace” has acquired such a negative reputation inside the Beltway that the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), which saw Congress nearly ax all its funding over the summer, is now considering a name change.
9/11 is No Excuse for Bashing Muslims
On the 10th anniversary of 9/11, we’ll be transfixed once more by images of the planes ramming into the World Trade Center and people, caught in the flames, leaping to their deaths. We’ll see pictures of the burning Pentagon and hear stories of the heroic firefighters and police officers who sacrificed their lives to save others.
10 Years of 9/11 Wars is Enough
The 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks is sure to bring televised images of somber reflection. Looking back is, in some ways, easier for commentators and pundits than wrestling with the current state of Washington’s so-called “war on terror.”
Al-Qaeda Lost the Battle Long Ago
Osama bin Laden didn’t live to see the 10th anniversary of September 11. And his organization, according to many U.S. government insiders, is on its last legs since his death at the hands of U.S. Special Forces in May. “We’re within reach of strategically defeating al-Qaeda,” Defense Secretary Leon Panetta recently observed. Others disagree, pointing to the strength of al-Qaeda in Yemen.
The CIA’s Selective Secrecy
From the coups that ousted Mohammed Mossadeq, Jacobo Arbenz, and Salvador Allende in the Cold War to the waterboarding of suspected terrorists in the Global War on Terror, the CIA has built a solid reputation as an extralegal agent of international sabotage and murder. Since the agency’s creation in 1947, successive U.S. presidents and their national security advisors have furthered this reputation, using the CIA for dirty work and then denying any wrongdoing in public, while the truth waits for decades until files are declassified.