Grateful regards to the cosmopolitan reprehensor at GNN for finding and posting translations of these powerful Nordic pieces, this one equally unofficial courtesy of "Eirick". As decent as this article is, it is interesting to note that the Norwegian mainstream news portal aftenposten.no that published it would not translate it for their English mirror site.
Besides his work as an astute guerrilla journalist, Mike Ferner is a core member of the radical-revered Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy. POCLAD has led the way in tracking corporations'' rise to untrammeled power in modern history and is a potent ally in our larger movement to terminate the corporate coup.
by David Ray Griffin
This essay was originally delivered as a lecture at Trinity Episcopal Church of Santa Barbara, Saturday, March 25, 2006.
In this essay, I offer a Christian critique of the American empire in...
Although I am a philosopher of religion and theologian, I have spent most of my time during the past three years on 9/11---studying it, writing about it, and speaking about it. In this lecture,...
An FBI agent who interrogated Zacarias Moussaoui before Sept. 11, 2001, warned his supervisors more than 70 times that Moussaoui was a terrorist and spelled out his suspicions that the al-Qaeda operative was plotting to hijack an airplane. What is striking about agent Samit's account, like the account of his office-mate Coleen Rowley, is the assumption of "criminal negligence" on the part of FBI headquarters, and RFU head David Frasca and Michael Maltbie in particular. Best I can see, criminal complicity has not been ruled out whatsoever.
The body of this Counterpunch.org article is quite good, and its appearance may portend a subtle but significant shift at a web site with very good leftish commentary but one that's been largely unreceptive to consideration of foreknowledge/complicity arguments.
I simply read past Werther's mild jab at the "cottage industry of amateur speculation" on 9/11. He seems to be referring specifically to 'physical evidence' arguments, and it has to be admitted than many of them are amateurish. His attitude seems sympathetic, if superior.
The superiority does rankle a bit, though. Here's a fellow with what may be charitably called an 'inflated view of himself'. It takes a large amount of self-regard to arrive so late to a party and talk like you're the guest of honor.
The leading lights of the 9/11 truth movement have made most of these arguments (and more probing ones) many times before. Contrary to Werther's claim, it's not that "we now know" enough to say the 9/11 Commission report was a cover-up. Please. It's been 'now' for a long time now. (Anyone who read the staff statements along the way could see which way the wind was blowing.)
Here's hoping that we see some more articles at Counterpunch.org on the "basic higher-order political factors surrounding 9/11", as well as the basic higher-order sociopolitical factors in the failure of the corporate press to both 1) identify the Commission Report as a cover-up, and 2) do its own independent investigation of 9/11.
Bryan Sacks, Ed.
