Thursday, May 12 2005   -   In the Media

- I worry that I'm turning into a conspiracy theorist

AL Kennedy
Wednesday May 11, 2005
The Guardian/UK

Another small, snide but significant eureka in an editorial room far away. - Ed

OK, I'm paranoid and depressed. My new government of troglodytes, murderers and spivs barely elongates the customary scream I give upon waking. What troubles me more is our rulers' inevitable recommencement of the war on terror bollocks.

To begin at what we're told is the beginning, we have 9/11 - the one in the US, not the earlier one in Chile when covert US government intervention killed thousands of innocents and handed the country to a commerce-friendly, torture-loving, far-right junta. Now if 9/11/2001 is so important, why is it so hard to find out what happened?

 

Thursday, April 28 2005   -   In the Media

By Steve Hammons
Research analyst
IntelDesk.com
April 28, 2005

Yet another country heard from! Trusty IntelDesk.com now seems ready tp think the unthinkable and talk about it in public, too. No new news here, except the fact that intuitions of the truth are starting to break through. - Ed.

Some Americans and people around the world are wondering more about the 9/11 attacks. Questions are being asked and frightening allegations are being made.

"The 9/11 Truth Movement" is a phrase being used to describe a wide range of people and organizations who are asking these questions and digging up information that appears on the surface to be quite serious if true.

 

Wednesday, April 20 2005   -   In the Media

By Samara Kalk Derby
Capitol Times, Madison, WI
April 20, 2005

By all accounts this was a magnificent showing (and telling) by Dr. Griffin and will be shared with the whole country on CSPAN's Book TV the weekend of April 30/May 1st. Please stay tuned for exact times and dust off your VCR to get copies of this out. - Ed.

David Ray Griffin asks the tough questions about Sept. 11, contending U.S. officials had some knowledge of what was coming and possibly orchestrated the attacks.

Griffin, whose book, "The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11," came out a year ago, drew an enthusiastic standing ovation from the majority of the 400 or so people who packed his lecture Monday night at Bascom Hall.

 

Tuesday, April 19 2005   -   In the Media

- Theologian and Author Believes the President Endorsed the Attacks to Build Up Support for his Military Plans.

by Doug Erickson
Wisconsin State Journal
Page B1, April 19, 2005

The Griffin 9/11 Truth Effect continues to reverberate. Consider just these lines: [Griffin said the evidence is] "sufficient to suggest that there is no escape from the frightful conclusion that 9/11 was engineered by the Bush administration and its Pentagon." He closed by saying religious people must seek the truth about 9/11, create new means to spread the information, and work to thwart Bush's attempts at global domination. The crowd gave Griffin a standing ovation."

Unlike Madison's progressive Capitol Times which carried the other Griffin story below, the Wisconsin State Journal is known as a crusty Republican rag with circulation all across the state. If this does not justfy perseverance, it's hard to say what would. - Ed.

A noted Christian theologian suggested Monday in Madison that the Bush administration not only had prior knowledge of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but probably helped orchestrate them.  

Tuesday, April 19 2005   -   In the Media

By Samara Kalk Derby
Capitol Times,
Madison, WI
April 20, 2005

By all accounts this was a magnificent showing (and telling) by Dr. Griffin and will be shared with the whole country on CSPAN's Book TV the weekend of April 30/May 1st. Please stay tuned for exact times and dust off your VCR to get copies of this out. - Ed.

David Ray Griffin asks the tough questions about Sept. 11, contending U.S. officials had some knowledge of what was coming and possibly orchestrated the attacks.

Griffin, whose book, "The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11," came out a year ago, drew an enthusiastic standing ovation from the majority of the 400 or so people who packed his lecture Monday night at Bascom Hall.

 

Sunday, April 10 2005   -   In the Media

We have not been aware of the Journal of Psychohistory's 9/11 interest before or vetted this article yet, but it is 62 pages long and certainly seems to address the right questions. See also the flyer for their extremely intriguing June conference in New York here. - Ed.

DID BUSH KNOW ABOUT 9/11 IN ADVANCE?
Get the current Special Issue of The Journal of Psychohistory on what Bush knew about 9/11 in advance, with explosive evidence from seven new books showing how the FAA was told to ignore all the appeals from air controllers to intercept the hijacked planes, how audio tapes and photos were destroyed that pointed to collusion by the Bush team, how Rumsfeld has said 9/11 was "a blessing in disguise", and much more.  

Sunday, March 27 2005   -   In the Media

By Steven T. Jones
SF Bay Guardian
March 23, 2005

Sure, the people with the 9/11 conspiracy theories are a little odd. But not everything they're saying is entirely crazy.

Breakthrough moment! The intrepid San Francisco Bay Guardian FINALLY wades into the 9/11 fray. City editor Jones adroitly covers his "respectable journalist" ass with careful research and distanced language, but he also lays out the 9/11 truth movement's official complicity case with admirable clarity and verve. - Ed.

THE GRAND LAKE Theater in Oakland was filled almost to capacity March 10, just as the Guild Theatre in Menlo Park was the night before and the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco would be the next night, all for a documentary with bad production values and even worse leaps of logic.

This was the local premiere of The Great Conspiracy: The 9/11 News Special You Never Saw, a benefit screening for the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance, whose activists have been laboring for more than three years to dispel popular belief in the government's version of the events on that fateful day.

 

Sunday, March 27 2005   -   In the Media

by Will Bunch
Philadelphia Daily News
March 25, 2005

Excerpts: It has been more than three and a half years since the terror attacks of Sept. 11. The main perpetrators have been ID'd by the government and died in the suicide assault, and key planner Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is also in custody.

Yet both the federal government and New York officials continue to block the public's right to know more about what really happened that day -- even though it's the family members of the victims of the tragic attack now pleading for a fuller public account...

What's missing from the public record? Tapes that might show Flight 77 crashing into the Pentagon on 9/11. A better explanation of what really happened to the voice and data records from Flight 77 and the two WTC jetliners. A better accounting of why NORAD didn't respond properly to the attacks, and what the heck Donald Rumsfeld was doing during all this time, besides scheming to attack Saddam Hussein.

That's just a start.

 

Saturday, March 5 2005   -   In the Media

Last month Jim Hoffman of 911review.com gave us a pre-pub alert of Popular Mechanics' March cover story "9/11: Debunking The Myths", a sleazy but industrious hatchet job.

At the time we ironically celebrated that the 9/11 truth movement had finally progressed from being ignored to being ridiculed to being attacked - and attacked big time by one of the Hearst conglomerate's flagship rags. Well, this well engineered disinfo piece is now on the news stands and its "chief researcher" and media spokesman Ben Chertoff is busy making the talk show rounds.

While genealogy and nepotism buffs are investigating whether Ben Chertoff really is Homeland Security czar Michael Chertoff's kissing cousin, readers might appreciate Jim Hoffman's rather more detailed deconstruction of the diatribe at Popular Mechanics' Deceptive Smear Against 9/11 Truth.

After you review the article, the evidence and the 4th golden rule of disinfo again, we hope you will call in and give Cousin Ben a whackamole taste of 9/11 truth if he pops up on a talk show near you."

 

Friday, February 25 2005   -   In the Media

A Review of "The New Pearl Harbor"

By Marc Estrin
counterpunch.org
May 25, 2004

Excellent review of Griffin's tour de force by the intrepid Counterpunch crew, one of the few lefty journals willing to even look at that day. - Ed.

The official story goes something like this:

With no actionable warning from intelligence agencies, four planes were hijacked by terrorists on the morning of September 11, 2001. Two crashed into the Word Trade Center, which then collapsed, and shortly thereafter, the third into the Pentagon. The last plane went down in Pennsylvania after a struggle between passengers and hijackers. Air defense arrived too late to stop the catastrophes. Responding to this attack on the homeland, the president declared a global war on terror which may last for generations until evil is finally eradicated, the security of America firmly established, and the world made safe for freedom and democracy.

In The New Pearl Harbor, David Ray Griffin compiles the evidence that every single assertion in the official story is implausible or impossible, and that something other must explain the inconsistencies and contra-factual assertions.

 

Tuesday, February 15 2005   -   In the Media

by Robert Scheer
Los Angeles Times
February 15, 2005

"What we do know calls into question our government's explanation that a diabolical international terrorist conspiracy exploited our liberal, naive society. What has emerged, instead, is a portrait of an often bumbling terrorist gang allowed to wreak havoc because the top tiers of the administration were so indifferent to the alarms, which former CIA Director George Tenet described so graphically: "The system was blinking red..."

The title says it all -- another major media figure tiptoes closer to the truth. Substitute "top tiers of the administration were indifferent to the alarms" in the excerpt above with "top tiers… welcomed and then deliberately ignored the alarms" and we start to set the stage for a national awakening and rebirth. -- Editor

Would George W. Bush have been reelected president if the public understood how much responsibility his administration bears for allowing the 9/11 attacks to succeed?