Search 7D:

All tags » 9/11

 

If you think you hold current and former high-ranking Bush administration weasels such as Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, John Yoo and Alberto Gonzales in low esteem right now, just wait until you've learned the role they played in institutionalizing torture since 9/11. When you buy your ticket for Taxi to the Dark Side, you may think them liars and bumblers, but you're likely to leave the Cineplex with little doubt that they're also war criminals.... Read more

The folks who rally every weekday evening outside Burlington’s Unitarian Universalist Church keep the message simple: PEACE. But talk with them for five minutes, and they’ll launch into a philosophical riff on everything that’s wrong with America.

On the day after the Fourth of July, 83-year-old Frank Gonzalez and four other 50-plus pacifists are reminding passersby that patriotism isn’t always fun and games. Some pause to smile their approval; most just keep walking.... Read more

BURLINGTON - When Lorie Van Auken wasn't painting scenery last week for her daughter's high school play in East Brunswick, N.J., she was pressuring federal officials to declassify the notes from a July 10, 2001, meeting between then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and then-CIA Director George Tenet. Van Auken's goal is to uncover another piece in the complex puzzle of why her husband, Kenneth, died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.... Read more

BURLINGTON - Members of Vermont's 9/11 truth movement have been hoping for national media attention, but this probably isn't the kind of "exposure" they expected. Local readers of Hustler magazine - yes, apparently some people look at the blocks of text sandwiched between the spread-eagled women who show off their birth canals - noticed an article in the March issue by Mark Johnson. Entitled "Was 9/11 an Inside Job?" the story includes a photo of a banner that's often seen around the Queen City.... Read more

BURLINGTON - Last Sunday afternoon, a perfect 80-degree day brought crowds to the Church Street Marketplace in search, perhaps, of sun, sustenance and sales. Some of those shoppers and cafe people-watchers were treated to an unexpected, confrontational bit of street theater. Nine men wearing black hoods and orange jumpsuits, meant to represent Guantanamo Bay prison detainees, made their way down Church Street, hands held - though not cuffed - behind them. Two in front carried an upside-down American flag; two at the rear carried a large white sign with the message: "Arrest the U.S.... Read more

In the immediate aftermath of September 11, Columbia University journalism professor Anne Nelson found two unusual ways to help her city process its grief. She helped a fire captain who had lost most of his men craft the eulogies he found himself unable to write. And then she penned a play based on what she had done, as a commission for a downtown theater nearly put out of business by its proximity to Ground Zero.... Read more

When David Ray Griffin talks about the people behind the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, his ideas sound as outlandish and sinister as an "X-Files" storyline. Griffin is a prominent spokesperson in the "9/11 truth movement," which challenges the official conclusions of the 9/11 Commission that the hijackings were masterminded by Osama bin Laden and pulled off by 19 Muslim extremists. Griffin contends not only that the Bush administration knew about the attacks in advance, but also that the plot was orchestrated by top-ranking U.S. government officials.... Read more

Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 is still in theaters, but in October, Vermonters all across the state will be able to watch something just as provocative on public-access cable TV -- Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire. The documentary, produced by Jeremy Earp and Sut Jhally and funded by the Media Education Foundation, explores the Bush administration's motives for going to war with Iraq and chastises the mainstream media for not pursuing the story more aggressively.... Read more

There's no way to start this piece except with the phrase, "9/11." I say "the phrase," because the symbol "9/11" contains a meaning not inherent in the numbers themselves. Now and forever, these digits carry an unspoken weight of change, disaster and loss. There's no getting around it -- there never will be.... Read more

Unless you've been in solitary confinement, you surely know that Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 broke all documentary-film records last weekend. That is, in the dollar-obsessed parlance of the movie industry, it earned an astonishing $23.9 million at the box office. To put that in perspective, consider that Moore's previous doc, Bowling for Columbine, took nine months to reach $21.6 million.... Read more