Beginner's Primer on General 911 Studies

 

The Path of News Breaks - A sampling of the rare exceptions that prove the media's hear/see/report-no-9/11-evil rule   The Truth About Sept. 11 By Ted Rall, AlterNet, September 11, 2002 First 9/11 questions statement by a well known media figure (one year late and only online, but still much appreciated)   Fallout: The Hidden Environmental Consequences of 9/11 by Juan Gonzalez, In These Times, September 10, 2002 Early prophetic piece on the administration cover-up of the post-attack pollution (Implicit question: If they could condemn thousands of New Yorkers to death just to get the Stock Exchange running, how many would they sacrifice to run Afghanistan and Iraq?)   9/11 Pollution Could Cause More Deaths Than Attack by Geoffrey Lean, The Independent (UK), September 12, 2004 A Sierra Club study confirms and grimly quantifies the previous story, which breaks in a major world paper.   One Year Later: Unintended Consequences of 9/11 and the War on Terrorism by John Tirman, AlterNet, August 29, 2002 Early, almost touchingly naive, recount of 9/11's exploitation - unintended by whom?   The Enemy Within by Gore Vidal, The Observer (UK), October 27, 2002 In a 7,000 word essay and review of Ahmed's "War on Freedom", Vidal lays out the early evidence for administration complicity (This stunning piece has never been quoted or even mentioned in the mainstream US press.)   Conspiracy Crusader Doubts Official 9/11 Version by Michele Landsberg, Toronto Star, May 11, 2003 Celebrated columnist sympathetically introduces 9/11 truth pioneer Barry Zwicker in Canada's largest paper.   Barbs aside, 9/11 questions aren't going away by Michelle Landsberg, Toronto Star, May 18, 2003 And takes a lot of flack...   Four 9/11 Moms Battle Bush by Gail Sheehy, New York Observer (front page story), August 25, 2003 First "unanswered questions" story appears in the US press: Best-selling author Sheehy offers this great human and political saga to all New York's mainstream publications, but only one feisty weekly had the guts to pick it up.   This War on Terrorism is Bogus The 9/11 attacks gave the US an ideal pretext to use force to secure its global domination by Michael Meacher, The Guardian/UK, September 6, 2003 First compelling sketch of the motive, means and opportunity for the 9/11 crimes by veteran UK cabinet official.   Why Don't We Have Answers to These 9/11 Questions? by William Bunch, Philadelphia Daily News, September 11, 2003 First mention of "unanswered questions" in major US daily, brave and well done, but two years after the fact.   Conspiracy Theories about Sept. 11 Get Hearing in Germany - Distrust of U.S. Fuels Stories about Source of the Attacks By Ian Johnson, Wall Street Journal, September 29, 2003 orporate Journalism Central begins damage control, but still relates some intriguing facts.   Whitewash as Public Service: How The 9/11 Commission Report defrauds the nation By Benjamin DeMott, Harper's Magazine, October 2004 Despite the feisty title, the piece generally collapses into minutiae and fry-more-bureaucrats gripes. For a far deeper insight into the Commission cover-up, see David Ray Griffin's "A National Disgrace" - an intro to his explosive "The 9/11 Commission Report - Omissions and Distortions." The Path of Stubborn Questions - Victim family queries that remain unanswered to this day The original 400+ Family Steering Committee questions that Commissioner Jamie Gorelick said would be the Commission's "road map"   FSC co-founders Mindy Kleinberg & Lorie van Auken rate the Commission's final Report and give it a failing grade.   A good rundown of the basic 9/11 questions from whatreallyhappened.com   An extensive reader-generated, reader-rated list of questions from the pioneer site unansweredquestions.org   Keys to 9/11 - Deja Vu All over Again By Michelle Mairesse - a clean and clear example of many questions in narrative form The Path of Deceit, Distortion & Perjury - The Way of the Neocon Warrior (When the "free press" turns to stenography, Machiavelli returns to life!) Bushlies.com has produced a fine compendium of administration 9/11 lies, some aforethought, some afterthought, some cobbled on the fly.   In the "practice makes perfect" vein, see also Rep. Henry Waxmann's "Iraq on the Record" database of 237 subsequent Bush official lies about Iraq   For more specific indictments, see: "NORAD LIED ABOUT 9/11" : Senator Mark Dayton LIES A SIXTH GRADER WOULD NOT ACCEPT by Michael C Ruppert AN OPEN LETTER TO CONDOLEEZZA RICE "You Are a Liar" by Catherine Austin Fitts, former Assistant Secretary of Housing FBI WHISTLEBLOWER SAYS RICE IS LYING - Bush knew al-Qaida was planning attack by Andrew Buncombe, The Independent [London, UK] Similar reporting on LiesofBush.com's "Culpability or Incompetence?" page The Path of Past Precedents - How and why they keep doing it to us, a crash course in official betrayal FAKE TERROR - The Road to War and Dictatorship "It's the oldest trick in the book, dating back to Roman times; creating the enemies you need." Excellent retrospective on governmental creation and abuse of terror from the Roman despot Crassus up to the headlines today.   INVASION YANQUI: The Mexican War, 1846-1848 by Frances Leonard - You want history of provoked/invited attacks, we got history...   How to Start a War: The American Use of War Pretext Incidents (1848-1989) - More history than you might ever want to know...   War is a Racket - Gen. Smedley Butler's classic confession and repudiation of his life as a corporate hitman.   PEARL HARBOR: Mother of All Conspiracies - Exhaustive documentation of FDR's foreknowledge and how he in fact methodically invited the attack.   Operation Northwoods - the early Sixties Pentagon plan to attack America, blame it on Castro, and use the patriotic outrage as a pretext to invade and conquer Cuba. Excerpted from James "Puzzle Palace" Bamford's best-selling Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency." The Path of Timelines - Systematic compilations of documented 9/11 facts that make "coincidence theory" the wildest hypothesis of the day 9/11 Timelines/Outlines by Topic Area (e.g., 9/11 air "defense", Pakistan connections, insider trading, FBI inquiry blocks, etc.) - From Paul Thompson and friends at the incomparable cooperativeresearch.net   Best Single 9/11 Timeline: Exhaustive - Ditto   "Oh Lucy! - You Gotta Lotta 'Splainin To Do" - Michael Ruppert's Timeline: The first - still growing, still excellent, and still offering $1000 to anyone finding an inaccuracy.