REVIEWED SITES
A selection of the best or most newsworthy,
interesting,
influential or popular 9/11 Skeptic sites.
QUESTIONS QUESTIONS - BRIAN SALTER
www.questionsquestions.net/
Lucid presentation of the skeptical case. Broad and open-minded approach to the major issues. The
site's current main feature presents a wealth of links and very strong arguments against the
"anti-conspiratorialist" campaign now being waged by the self-appointed spin controllers of the
liberal left:
"The Magic Bullet Dissidents"- must reading.
Many links to excellent articles not yet included here. Also a good collection of links to relevant
news articles supporting the Skeptical case.
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS (A COALITION)
www.unansweredquestions.org
Finally, in recent weeks, a number of prominent 9/11 Skeptics have united in an ad hoc coalition,
which held the "Unanswered Questions" press conference at the National Press Club in Washington on
Monday, June 10. Participants included Mary Schiavo, the former inspector general of the
Transportation Department, who represents 32 Sept. 11 families, who spoke on the need for
accountability in aviation disasters; C.A. Fitts, the former assistant secretary of housing
in the first Bush administration, who later turned whistleblower on the plundering of the federal
budget; Julie Sweeney, who lost family on Sept. 11 and wants to know the whole story of why;
Michael Springman, a whistleblower from the State Department who was ordered to issue U.S.
visas to CIA-backed fundamentalist mercenaries in Saudi Arabia in the 1980s; and investigative
journalists Michael Ruppert, Tom Flocco, Kyle Hence, Richard Ochs, Jennifer Bergen and
John Judge, among others. C-SPAN chose not to cover the event, prefering such important
alternatives that day as a planning meeting on the renovation of the Pentagon! Several hundred
people apparently attended, including journalists, so there's no doubt it created a buzz, if not
yet any stories. These things take time to percolate. Meanwhile, most of us are stuck waiting for
the group to put up a transcript.
As of June 17, the audio is available:
unansweredquestions.org/audio.php
So far I have only heard the first part, but very good work!
The biggest question here is where it will all lead. Let's hope this initiative turns into a
big, inclusive, broad-based and influential movement to force disclosure.
PEACEFUL TOMORROWS -
ANTIWAR GROUP OF SEPT. 11 RELATIVES
peacefultomorrows.org/
Not necessarily skeptics - this is the site of an anti-war organization set up by relatives of the
9/11 victims. The group participated in the "Unanswered Questions" press conference of June 10,
2002, in Washington, DC.
GREG PALAST -
GREATEST INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER IN UNIVERSE
www.gregpalast.com/
Not a 9/11 Skeptic himself, Palast broke the story of how the Bush administration spiked FBI
investigations into the Osama-Saudi connection immediately on taking power in January,
2001.
www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=103&row=0
Here is the transcript of Palast's Nov. 6 BBC Newsnight story, which asks:
"Has Someone Been Sitting on the FBI?" news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/events/newsnight/newsid_1645000/16 45527.stm
Palast writes for The Guardian/Independent and reports for BBC. He broke the story of how Jeb Bush
and Katherine Harris stole Florida for George W. in advance of the 2000 election, by purging
the voter registration rolls of up to 100,000 potential Democratic voters, mostly black people.
Palast's findings were adopted by the Civil Rights Commission that investigated the 2000 election,
but this got only minimal media coverage when it was reported, after Sept. 11.
He also broke several major stories on how governments, the IMF and World Bank collaborate with
transnational corporations like Enron in intentionally eradicating the economic independence of
third-world countries.
Anthony Lappe of the Guerilla News Network interviews Palast on the Racial Coup D'Etat, the
spiking of the Binladin probe and Enron: www.guerrillanews.com/counter_intelligence/doc233.html www.guerrillanews.com/globalization/doc407.html
Alex Jones of Infowars.com interviews Palast:
"World Bank Secret Documents Consume Argentina"
www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=125&row=1
On Palast's main site, check out "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy," his excellent book
about the above and many other stories.
MAKE THEM ACCOUNTABLE - CAROLYN KAY
The "What Did they Know?" Page:
makethemaccountable.com/whatwhen/
Huge collection of links to "prior knowledge" news reports from mainstream media around the
world.
Latest Updates to "What Did They Know?"
www.makethemaccountable.com/whatwhen/LatestAdds.htm
DEMANDING A CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY ON 9/11 -
CAROL BROUILLET / "COMMUNITY CURRENCY"
www.communitycurrency.org/9-11.html
Excellent collection of questions and links.
Describes possibly the first-ever demonstration to demand a 9/11 inquiry, held on Jan. 8, 2002,
in San Francisco:
"January 8th, 2002. People Gathered and Marched to Senator Feinstein's office. A delegation of
people met with Senator Feinstein's and Senator Boxer's staff. These are some of the questions that
I brought which were presented to our elected officials..."
Guess what? Seems Feinstein and Boxer did not dance with delight at the thought of challenging the
official story.
The "Community Currency" site includes one of the most comprehensive treatments to
date:
MALCONTENT X - "SEPT. 11: UNANSWERED QUESTIONS"
www.communitycurrency.org/MainIndexMX.html
Excellent and self-reflective, factual overview. Good discussion of evidentiary standards and the
need for careful research. Points out the limits of the "who benefits" argument and the
circumstantial case. The anonymous author eschews speculation (unlike me, but I label my
speculations and do my best to be logical). He or she merely lays out reported facts and leaves the
obvious questions to the reader.
"This website is dedicated to help discover the truth about what occurred on
Sept 11th, 2001. The emphasis here is on an exhaustive examination of fully-referenced fact, rather
than speculation, circumstantial evidence, or "conspiracy-theory."
CONGRESSWOMAN CYNTHIA McKINNEY
A courageous woman, who has been subjected to vicious and ad hominem attacks.
www.house.gov/mckinney/
McKinney's Statement of April 12, 2002, the one that got the ball rolling:
"The need for an investigation of the events surrounding September 11 is as
obvious as is the need for an investigation of the Enron debacle. Certainly, if the American people
deserve answers about what went wrong with Enron and why (and we do), then we deserve to know what
went wrong on September 11 and why..."
www.house.gov/mckinney/news/pr020412.htm
Statement of May 16, 2002, after the White House admitted it received early warnings of an
imminent attack on aviation:
"Several weeks ago, I called for a congressional investigation into what
warnings the Bush Administration received before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. I was
derided by the White House, right wing talk radio, and spokespersons for the military-industrial
complex as a conspiracy theorist..."
www.house.gov/mckinney/news/pr020516.htm
TWO OTHER POTENTIAL REBELS IN THE CONGRESS?
RON PAUL: Ron Paul's Weekly Column
www.house.gov/paul/tst/welcome.htm
Get out of Colombia. Stop bombing Iraq. Get out of the Middle East. End the Drug War. Get out of
Saudi Arabia. Waco was a massacre. Reform or end the Federal Reserve.
Paul has said all of these things. And he is a Texas Republican!
DENNIS KUCINICH: "The Spirit of Freedom"
www.thespiritoffreedom.com/
"Let us pray that our nation will remember that the unfolding of the promise of
democracy in our nation paralleled the striving for civil rights. That is why we must challenge the
rationale of the Patriot Act. We must ask why should America put aside guarantees of constitutional
justice? How can we justify in effect canceling the First Amendment and the right of free
speech, the right to peaceably assemble?"
THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES (TENC) - JARED ISRAEL, ed.
emperors-
clothes.com/index.html
EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES 9/11 PAGE:
emperors-clothes.com/indict/911page.htm
Jared Israel and Illarion Bykov make a compelling and oft-cited case that the failure to intercept
the hijacked planes was possible only with collaboration from within the administration and/or high
military command. They have actually gone as far as writing up an indictment of Bush, Rumsfeld and
General Myers. The site includes many other well-reasoned and perceptive articles on the
Bushladin-Carlyle business connection, Osama and the CIA, Qaeda in Kosovo alongside the CIA,
history of causus belli, the imperial geostrategy of the U.S. power elites, history of the
Afghanistan conflict, history of the CIA-Nazi connection, and lies during wartime. Meticulous in
referencing fact and generally avoids speculation. TENC otherwise focuses mainly on Yugoslavia and
the Milosevic kangaroo court. (I agree entirely with the criticism of NATO's criminal war in
Kosovo, including the claims of how the causus belli was manufactured, but I do not endorse the
authors' extreme pro-Milosevic position.)
Those who doubt the plausibility of an inside job should start with the article by Ken McCarthy
of brasscheck.com, who asks how it would be possible for the government to let the attacks go
ahead:
emperors-clothes.com/indict/coast.htm
ANIMATED VERSION OF THE FLIGHT ROUTES www.usatoday.com/graphics/news/gra/gflightpath2/flash.htm
Why is the route of AA77 indicated by a dotted line?
UNITED FLIGHT 93 CRASH THEORY HOME PAGE
www.flight93crash.com/
Takes on the story of UA93 from every angle, considers the evidence on each scenario, and leaves
little doubt that the plane broke up in the air. (This is not to denigrate the heroes; they became
heroes the moment they started to resist.) Best site on the subject I'd like to ask all
Skeptics:
Is this the right start in unravelling the official story for the American people, or is the
subject too delicate? Or do you think the evidence is not conclusive?
9/11 SKEPTICISM HITS CANADIAN TV
The Great Deception - What Really happened on 9-11?
By Barry Zwicker, aired by Vision TV in Canada - for transcripts and links
www.visiontv.ca/programs/insight/mediafile_Jan21.htm
SF Lawyer Files 9/11 Suit Against Bush Administration
www.examiner.com/news/default.jsp?story=n.lawyer.0611w
A San Francisco Examiner article about Stanley Hilton, who filed suit June 3 against Bush and 10
top administration officials for $7 billion on behalf of victims' families, claiming the attacks
were intentionally allowed to happen so as to advance the administration's agenda. Hilton was a
staffer to Sen. Bob Dole in 1979-80, then dropped out to practice law and write books, including a
nasty one about his erstwhile employer, "Senator for Sale." He says he has evidence Osama
Binladin died of kidney failure years ago, and has been set up as a general scapegoat since. If
true, then who exactly did Mullah Omar and the Taliban fight to defend? Why didn't they say
Osama was dead, to save themselves?
PETER DALE SCOTT on Al-Qaeda, 9/11, Afghanistan, "War on Terror"
ist-
socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/q.html
A great scholar. Scott leaves open the question of the attacks' true background in this
absolutely recommended treatment of the history and politics behind Islamist terrorism and
the War on Terror.
GORE VIDAL JOINS THE SKEPTICS IN SALON.COM INTERVIEW
www.salon.com/people/interview/2002/04/24/vidal/index_np.html
By Gary Kamiya, April 24:
"Congress should investigate how much the Bush "oil junta" knew in advance about
Sept. 11. This and other bombshells from American literature's leading
provocateur."
Latest Vidal interview on 9/11:
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/VidalTranscript.html
NARCONEWS - AL GIORDANO
REPORTING ON "WAR ON DRUGS" FROM LATIN AMERICA
www.narconews.com/
With millions of hits and unapolegetic, on-the-scene reporting on the insane Drug War, Al
Giordano's site is the best evidence of an ongoing, Internet-based revolution against the corporate
media. Last December NARCONEWS won a landmark legal case against Banamex, the state-owned Mexican
bank, which had sued NARCONEWS for reporting that it is a drug-money laundromat. The ruling
established that Internet news sites qualify as journalism, and are therefore entitled to the same
extended First Amendment protections as the print press.
The site had its finest moment yet on April 11-13, during the failed military-media coup against
the Venezuelan government. In the crucial first hours, NARCONEWS and VHEADLINE broke the
English-language monopoly of the American press chorus, who were singing along with the Bush
regime's story that Hugo Chavez (a democratically elected leader, unlike George W. Bush) had
"resigned." Three days later, when the people of Venezuela flooded the streets and reclaimed their
country, even the Washington Post and New York Times admitted the attempt to depose Chavez was a
coup d'etat, heavily backed by the United States government. NARCONEWS continues to present the
best available English-language coverage on Plan Colombia, Bolivia, the media revolution from
below, and much more.
Almost every single item on NARCONEWS is worth reading, and usually contains information you
will not find elsewhere. In September 2001, NARCONEWS published two key stories on
9/11:
STAN GOFF: "THE SO-CALLED EVIDENCE IS A FARCE"
narconews.com/goff1.html
CATHERINE AUSTIN FITTS: "CUI BONO?"
narconews.com/cuibono.html
See also an overview of drug war, money laundering and the impact on the economy by C.A.
Fitts:
"NARCO-DOLLARS FOR BEGINNERS"
narconews.com/narcodollars1.html
MOSCOW TIMES
www.moscowtimes.ru/
Excellent English-language reports by a large crew of journalists from Moscow, has been
running since the early 1990s. A hotbed of "exile" American straight-talkers and also Russian
skeptics with regard to the suspicious
manner in which President Putin came to power. Archives unfortunately by
subscription.
See the latest column by Chris Floyd ("Hellraiser 2.0") who has been on top of the 9/11
issue from the start, talk about the NSA's tracking of Mohammed Atta for many months before
9/11:
www.tmtmetropolis.ru/stories/2002/06/14/120.html
"Terror works. Terror pays. Terror feeds the bulldog. It's the first principle
of any violent criminal organization: scare the hell out of the people you're trying to
control..."
Boris Kagalitsky, always with insightful and well-written views into Russian politics, and
who has a bit of a global following thanks to Internet, very openly showed his 9/11 skepticism in
an Sept.. 21, unfortunately no longer available except here on my private fair use archive.
Sept. 18, 2001: "Bin Laden? Better Be Sure"
Oct. 30, 2001 "A Need for Honest Answers"
"The fear of new terrorist acts compels the American public to accept any course
of treatment offered by the government. However, there will most probably not be any more
large-scale acts of terrorism. Not because the administration's measures have been effective, but
simply because those who blew up the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 -- whoever they were -- have
already achieved their goal, just as those who blew up apartment blocks in Moscow in 1999
accomplished theirs. Terrorism is a means of changing the balance of political forces through
violence. Such a change has already taken place. And the current war against terrorism is no
solution, but rather is aggravating the problem."
Kagarlitsky's latest column:
www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2002/06/18/009.html
CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON GLOBALIZATION (CRG)
MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY, ed.
www.globalresearch.ca
Montreal-based scholarly site, in French and English, with large collection of important articles
on the Pakistani connection to 9/11, Osama as a CIA asset, Taliban and the oil lobby, 9/11-related
insider trading, and much more.
Foreknowledge of 9/11 Page:
globalresearch.ca/articles/CRG204A.html
CHAIM KUPFERBERG:
"The Propaganda Preparation for 9/11," CRG, June 19:
globalresearch.ca/articles/KUP206A.html
Proceeds from "the mysterious death of John O'Neill" to a number of suspicious news stories in
advance of Sept. 11 to a compelling stab at the Big Picture.
Print publication of the CRG: YearZero Magazine - Home
www.yearzero.org/
MADCOW PRODUCTIONS - DANIEL HOPSICKER
www.madcowprod.com/
Investigative reporter Daniel Hopsicker is a former NBC producer who ditched the mainstream media
so that he could cover stories that actually matter. He has concentrated on the trail of the
alleged Sept. 11 hijackers, starting in Venice, Florida, where Mohamed Atta and his buddy Marwan
al-Shehhi attended the flight schools run by the "Dutch Boys" Rudi Dekkers and Arne Kruikhof.
Hopsicker's work, in more than a dozen articles since Sept. 11, is the closest we have to a smoking
gun leading the hijackers back to U.S. government connections. Among other stories, he has
uncovered sources who claim to have seen Atta at U.S. military bases in the 1990s; local police who
say their records on the investigation were taken away by state police and loaded on to an airplane
with Jeb Bush waiting on board; and evidence that the Dutch Boy flight schools are intelligence
community fronts. Since Hopsicker is a footwork journalist who protects most of his informants, I
don't know what to make of some of this, and I wish Hopsicker would not write in the style of a
gossip columnist. The material is not available on any other site, and merits a full reading from
the first article in the archives forward. Judge for yourselves. Hopsicker has produced a feature
length treatment of his findings, "Mohamed Atta and the Venice Flying Circus," which this
reviewer has yet to see.
GORDON THOMAS - INTEL ONLINE
www.gordonthomas.ie/briefs.htm
Self-proclaimed intelligence expert with long pedigree as spook journalist. Believes 9/11 was
entirely the work of Qaeda. Claims in his current book, "Seeds of Fire," that China helped arm and
prepare Osama Binladin's offensive on the United States, in the hope that terror attacks will serve
to weaken the arrogant superpower in the long run. (I have not read the book but find this thesis
highly implausible, since China is now a full, WTO-approved, enthusiastic member of the global
capitalist club.)
Thomas seems to have good links to Mossad, and has been accused (without proof) of being their
mouthpiece. In two very interesting recent articles citing Israeli sources, he claims the Israeli
government has let on to the congressional investigators that Mossad gave the FBI and CIA specific
pre-Sept. 11 warnings of an imminent Qaeda attack, including the names of some of the later
hijackers.
"Bush ignored warning that will come to haunt him."
www.gordonthomas.ie/104.html
Did CIA and FBI fail to heed the Mossad warning of an imminent attack?
www.gordonthomas.ie/120.html
This information seems to have been gathered by an Israeli spy ring operating in the United States
before Sept. 11. Gordon speculates these warnings were accurate and useful, and could have
prevented the attacks, but says they were ignored, mainly because the American services mistrust
the Mossad. Is this one of the items being discussed in the secret meetings of the congressional
committee?
JOHN LOFTUS
www.john- loftus.com/
Author of "The Secret War Against the Jews," a best-selling history of collaboration between U.S.
elites and the Nazis from the 1930s almost to the present day. A lawyer, Loftus is the head of the
Florida Holocaust Museum and I shall note, as he does on his site: an Irish Catholic. He argues
with conviction that the networks of Islamist terror lead back to Saudi Arabian financiers and that
the Bush family had every incentive to cover this up, just as the Clinton administration did.
Moving on to shakier ground, he says that the Bush decision to spike the FBI probe into Qaeda and
Saudi was taken directly on behalf of the Bush regime's most active sponsor, the Enron corporation,
which lobbied the Taliban for a pipeline along with other oil companies. This, Loftus says, caused
the investigative blackout that allowed Qaeda to perpetrate the Sept. 11 attacks. He does not
proceed to the next logical step of at least wondering whether the Bush administration had an
incentive not just to spike the investigation, but to actually allow the attacks to go ahead. He
argues instead that the responsible Saudi parties basically hoped to sabotage the Mideast peace
process by staging an attack on America, which to me smells about as plausible as the idea that the
Israelis staged the attacks to allow them to unleash a war on the Arabs. (Either goal could be
accomplished with much simpler means, and without risking the wrath of the American leviathan.)
Still, Loftus is a scholar with a very interesting site, if absurdly apologetic as to Israel's role
in the Arab world.
COPVCIA - FROM THE WILDERNESS - MIKE RUPPERT
www.copvcia.com/
I don't know Ruppert, but there's something about him that makes you want to call him by first
name. Mike strikes me as courageous and tireless. The site's extensive 9/11 coverage has picked up
the trail of 9/11-related insider trading and focused on evidence of foreknowledge and the
geopolitics of the conflict, among other issues. I highly recommend the video of his three-hour
Portland lecture on "The Truth and Lies of 9/11."
www.fromthewilderness.com/store/index.html
No one can watch it and fail to see that the official story is a farce. Order it today. (This is
not a commercial message.)
Most popular article: "Oh Lucy! - You Gotta Lotta 'Splainin To Do"
www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/02_11_02_lucy.html
"A TIMELINE SURROUNDING SEPTEMBER 11TH - IF CIA AND THE GOVERNMENT WEREN'T INVOLVED IN THE
SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS WHAT WERE THEY DOING?"
On his 9/11 tour, Ruppert has packed the house for lectures of three and four hours in New York,
San Francisco, and across Canada. Because he is so persistent and outspoken, and because he has put
himself on the line for many years at great personal risk, he has become something akin to the
first hero of the 9/11 Skeptics movement. This is not to say he is perfect. I find it striking that
when he makes factual errors, the site always issues immediate and complete corrections (including
on one minor mistake that I wrote him about). One searches in vain for a similar readiness to admit
error among his detractors, who make plenty, or among 90 percent of journalists. Ruppert's biggest
mistake so far was to ride the Mike Vreeland story too uncritically. But his central point on
Vreeland remains: a con man Vreeland certainly seems to be - which is not incompatible with being a
government spook - but how did he produce a written warning of the attacks in advance of Sept.
11?
In recent months, Ruppert has been assaulted regularly by various self-appointed guardians of
Leftist propriety (=boredom and ineffectiveness), unfortunately including such medium-size names as
Michael Albert, Norman Solomon and David Corn. None of them have addressed the facts Ruppert
presents, or had the courage to debate him in person. They have engaged instead in personal and ad
hominem attacks, and tried to shut him out of the media. This is a typical fate for those who
pursue analysis beyond sociology, and who stand up with the kind of specific evidence of government
crime that liberals are conditioned to denigrate as "conspiracy theory."
Ruppert's "From the Wilderness" newsletter and "Cop v. CIA" site have broken more important stories
about the Drug War and the gangsters who rule our country than 20 years worth of the New York
Times. A former LAPD cop, Ruppert has focused mainly on the CIA-drug connection. He confronted CIA
Director John Deutch with evidence of the agency's drug dealing at a 1996 town meeting in South
Central Los Angeles, which was broadcast on C- SPAN. That coup probably stopped Deutch's rise to a
higher post, though it unfortunately has not made a difference with regard to government-sponsored
drug dealing. (Interestingly, at the same time, David Corn, Ruppert's most persistent detractor,
used The Nation to stage ad hominem and inaccurate attacks on Gary Webb's series about CIA-Contra
drug dealing, which has since been confirmed to the last significant detail. Does Corn have a
function other than being a "leftist" flak for official lies?)
Read what Ruppert writes about CIA-sponsored drug smuggling, the central crime in an age when a
"Drug War" imprisons millions of noin-violent drug users in private labor camps, claims thousands
of victims on the streets, and levels whole countries. This is possibly the most obvious piece of
evidence that at least to some groups within the United States government, you ARE
expendable.
DAVE McGOWAN:
"AMERICA THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS" (April 8, 2002)
Perhaps the most talented writer listed here!
McGowan launches a funny and irreverent broadside on 9/11 and the Big Picture:
www.swans.com/library/art8/dmg001.html
Published at SWANS, Gylles D'Aymery's biweekly e-zine:
www.swans.com/main.shtml
Also at SWANS:
Jon Phalen: "Let's Step Out Of The Box For A Moment, Shall We? A reply To The
Anticonspiratorialists"
www.swans.com/library/art8/zig075.html
D'AYMERY'S "ANTI-CONSPIRACY" RESPONSE:
www.swans.com/library/art8/ga131.html
CENTER FOR AN INFORMED AMERICA - DAVE McGOWAN
www.davesweb.cnchost.com/
Dave McGowan's main site, with plenty of material and speculation on 9/11.
"THE WAR ON FREEDOM"
A BOOK BY NAFEEZ MOSADDEQ AHMED
waronfreedom.mediamonitors.net/index.html
The biggest scholarly treatment of the circumstantial case for "inside job" theory to date. The
final chapter, which can be downloaded on site, is an excellent rendering of the "who benefits"
argument.
Published by Media Monitors Network (MMN):
www.mediamonitors.net/index.html
GROUND ZERO - PRESENTED BY OurDNA.org - NICO HAUPT
www.lebensaspekte.de/
One of the largest stores of 9/11 Skeptic material, from a New Yorker who seems to have devoted his
life since Sept. 11 to researching all possible leads on the story. Incredibly detailed timelines
of Sept. 11, the background dating back to Operation Northwoods in 1962, and post-Sept. 11 events.
Extreme but intelligent in running through every possible speculation on every piece of evidence,
without being inflexible in revising conclusions that prove not to fit. Somebody has to take on
that role, but it means GZ is best for those who have already immersed themselves in the details.
Most of the material was originally posted on discussion boards, and so the organization is a bit
sloppy. This site needs an editor, but is well worth exploring.
GZ's Forum on Democratic Underground:
www.democraticunderground.com/cgi
THE BUSH VIDEO ON "GROUND ZERO"
www.lebensaspekte.de/groundzero/bushschool.mov
If you can handle a 23 megabyte file, be sure to download GZ's copy of a 10-minute propaganda
documentary (in Quicktime MOV format) about Bush's visit to the Booker Elementary School in
Sarasota on the morning of Sept. 11. See the president's limousine arrive. See the president listen
to schoolchildren reading in chorus. See the president hear the news of the second attack. See the
president remain seated as the children read the story of a girl and her pet goat. I don't know
what is scarier, the man's faked emotions or the class itself, with its forced instruction by
obedient repetition. (A showcase of the Bush brand of "education.") Hard to believe the film
producers use this smoking-gun evidence of the Resident's total inactivity in the face of an
ongoing "Attack on America" as an inspiring pro-Bush piece, but clearly we live in Orwellian times.
Ignorance is Strength.
GUERRILLA NEWS NETWORK (GNN)
www.guerrillanews.com/
An anti-media spin project. Excellent agit-prop videos, including "Crack the CIA," a Sundance
Festival winner, and "Surfing the Apocalypse," on 9/11 in the media. Always interesting interviews
and news items in the "Pick of the Day." Humorous approach.
GNN has a large active following, with continuous posts on its various forums:
www.guerrillanews.com/cgi- bin/wwwthreads/wwwthreads.pl
The "Open Forum" tends to be as 9/11 heavy as the "9/11" and "Conspiracy" forums. The posters, who
are almost uniformly against the Bush government, debate vigorously every side of the 9/11
question, from "Qaeda did it alone" to "Yes, it was Qaeda, but the government let it happen" to "It
was a setup from the start."
THE HOME PAGE OF ORLIN J. GRABBE
orlingrabbe.org/homepage.html
Orlin Grabbe, happy butcher of sacred cows, is a money consultant with a sense of humor who
presents links every day on the war, issues of "privacy, espionage, money laundering..." and a
usually entertaining miscellany, with a special interest in speculative science and technology. The
site reliably links to most of the relevant 9/11 news stories of the day. Outspoken as a skeptic,
Grabbe has openly propagated the "inside job" theory, provided a huge list of reports to establish
the Bush-Binladin family link ("More evidence than for the Osama-WTC link") and reported on Michael
Riconosciuto's recollections of meeting Osama Binladin in the U.S. in 1986, when Osama went on a
weapons shopping tour under the pseudonym of "Tim Osman." Grabbe seems to live in Dubai at the
moment. Maybe he could get to the botom of the French story about Osama's kidneys?
Devoted to a simplistic Randian libertarianism, Grabbe never minces words or disguises what he
thinks is the truth. He has no compunction about springing obvious hoaxes and seeing who falls for
it, which is mildly unsettling given how outlandish 9/11 Skepticism already seems to most people.
In his day job, Grabbe is trying to establish some kind of new untraceable way of trading dollars,
euros and gold on the Internet known as DMT, the instructions for which are written in impenetrable
tech-speak. (Sometimes he awards $100 DMT certificates to the first person who can register them.
This motivated me to download the software, but I wasn't fast enough to snag one, and wouldn't have
known what to do with it if I did.) Whether or not you are on his political line, he sure knows his
spook world. If you want an expert's primer on off-shore cash laundries, the mechanics of political
payola, banking and finance, encryption and the like, this is it. You must delve into the archives
to see most of the WTC-related links.
WARNING: For some reason, Grabbe adds a soft-porn pic every day - nannies beware. (NOTE
TO PROF. GRABBE: Your taste in photos is pretty good, though I liked it better before you went
topless.)
ANTIWAR.COM - JASON RAIMONDO, ed.
antiwar.com/
Updated daily, usually has all the key war-related and 9/11 media news links. Indispensable for
that reason. Principled antiwar stance, mainly from a libertarian perspective, dating back to the
site's establishment during the Kosovo war. Heterogenous group of writers, from Cockburn on the
left to (sigh) Buchanan on the right. Often brilliant regular columns by a number of writers,
including correspondants in Britain, Yugoslavia and Israel.
The editor and popular columnist, Jason Raimondo, has perfected a funny, loudmouth style. He takes
no prisoners among the neocon and imperial-liberal war factions, exposing hypocrisy and cant
without mercy. Unfortunately, he pushes the strange idea that Bush personally must be "a good man,"
whatever the insanity of the dictatorship in the making. (And what if this was true? It's not like
W is actually president, is it? Either de facto, or by election.)
Raimondo believes the attack was staged by Qaeda, but clearly does not think we have heard the real
low-down. He is almost as bad as Rivero, below, in pushing the Israeli spy-ring story to the
exclusion of all else, and he seriously dissed McKinney without bothering to address her argument.
He clearly enjoys the attack, at which he is very talented, and often forgets to do anything but.
He also spends too much time considering ideological labels (left, right, liberal, conservative)
that now obscure more than they illumininate.
After he published his eighth straight column suggesting the Israelis knew about the attacks in
advance and did not warn the U.S. (untrue!), or possibly staged the whole thing (to what end?!),
basing his belief in two cryptic sentences from a FOXNEWS story (fer Chrissakes) and a leaked
report from the DEA (that fount of truth in investigation), I finally wrote him a letter:
Dear Jason,
have you noticed that for months you have rehashed the exact same quotes and reports in a
quixotic effort to show that the Israeli Art Students were the hidden masterminds of 9/11? It's
wearing thin, especially since these same reports reveal that this Israeli spy ring must have been
very incompetent. I bother to point this out because otherwise, I hold your work and site in high
regard. Change the record. Switch for a month to the theory that elements of the domestic
establishment were complicit in the attacks, and must have had the commanding role, regardless of
who else was involved. You will suddenly have material enough to cover several dozen columns,
without repeating yourself. As for the research, I'm sure you don't need my pointers. You are well
aware of the credible 9/11 Skeptics, some of whom have written for you in the
past.
In amity...
Raimondo hasn't switched to the topic I suggested, but during the last couple of weeks he did
finally return to subjects other than the Israeli art students.
ONLINE JOURNAL - Larry Chin, Bev Conover, eds.
www.onlinejournal.com/
Recommended independent news and commentary site. A veritable nest of skeptics. Many writers
contribute. Regularly updated.
BILL MOLSON: "SEPTEMBER 11 - THE CIRCUMSTANTIAL CASE" - FOUR PART SERIES ON ONLINE
JOURNAL:
onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Molson041502/molson041502.html
www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Molson041902/molson041902.html
www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Molson042402/molson042402.html
www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Molson043002/molson043002.html
Bev Conover: "Has the Establishment Left become a handmaiden of the Republican
Right?"
www.onlinejournal.com/Media/Conover060402/conover060402.html
Takes on the left-liberal anti-conspiratorialists.
WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE (WSWS)
www.wsws.org/
Has featured excellent and well-researched coverage from the start.
Recommended are any and all articles by Patrick Martin.
Patrick Martin: "Was the US government alerted to September 11 attack?" (4-part
series)
wsws.org/articles/2002/jan2002/sept-j16.shtml
"It is not necessary to postulate an all-embracing
conspiracy,
extending from the White House to the airline security
personnel
who let the armed hijackers board the planes, to believe
that
there is much more to the story of the September 11 attacks
than
the American public has been told so far. Certainly the
least
likely and least credible explanation of that day's events
is that the vast US national security apparatus was entirely unaware of the
activities of the hijackers until the airliners slammed into the World Trade Center and
Pentagon..."
RENSE.COM - JEFF RENSE SHOW
www.rense.com/
Unavoidable, another site with millions of hits. Jeff Rense is a talk-radio host with a huge
following, and is to be commended for openness to dissenting views from across the political
spectrum. Definitely open to 9/11 Skepticism, the site enjoys a great number of intelligent
correspondents and plenty of more dubious ones, too. The daily collection of suppressed stories and
important news is mixed in with items on metaphysics, UFOs, and "chemtrails." But I'm willing to
entertain many notions until disproven. The important reality to note here is that despite the
frequent use of hearsay and the abundance of material too "magical" for the mainstream, Rense is
dealing with more significant issues, in a more honest fashion, than at least 90% of the mainstream
press.
Two Recent Submissions:
"A Pilot Answers 911 Questions JCS General Myers Wouldn't"
rense.com/general26/pilo.htm
Demolishes the official story in about a page
flat.
"Why? - An Extraordinary Series Of 911 Questions"
rense.com/general24/why.htm
Many of the extremely detailed lines of questioning set out here are indeed unusual and
well-conceived, but this text needs editing and fact-checking. I don't know who wrote it. It
doesn't help your credibility when you get the name of the FBI director wrong in the very first
headline. (He's Robert Mueller 3, not Richard.)
Something for all skeptics to beware:
There is enough confusion and we are dealing with a majority who will
automatically want to disbelieve our case. The last thing we can afford is gaffes on names and
other easily confirmable details!
ALWAYS DOUBLE-CHECK YOUR DETAILS!
End of lecture.
AL MARTIN RAW
www.almartinraw.com/
Intriguing and also generally very funny articles by a former Iran-Contra conspirator who claims
many inside military and intel sources. Has gotten millions of hits. Often extraordinary and
convincing analysis of the big picture, but what to make of the various inside-source claims?
We are left with the usual question, with all sites: Do you trust a voice in text? Stored
electronically? Because that is usually all you have to go on (including with newspapers, official
sources, information wires, etc.) to begin with, and then you must judge whether that voice fits in
with what you see and remains reliable over time..
To be reviewed in detail soon.
Scams Away The Boom is Falling, May 22, 2002
www.almartinraw.com/column58.html
Citizen, Can I See Your I.D.?
www.almartinraw.com/column37.html
Imperial State Power in America
www.almartinraw.com/column53.html
DoJ Cover-Up Specialist Bobby Mueller Named FBI Chief
www.almartinraw.com/column27.html
DRUGWAR.COM
www.drugwar.com/index.shtm
Excellent site against the Drug War.
Includes an article and 9/11-related links on the following page:
PRESTON PEET: "Pre-September 11 Reports of Terrorist Threats, Including References to World
Trade Center - Why Did it Take 8 Months?"
www.drugwar.com/pprewtcwarnings.shtm
HERMES PRESS
NORMAN LIVERGOOD & MICHELLE MAIRESSE
www.hermes-press.com/index.html
"The New Enlightenment - A Journal of Social and Metaphysical Inquiry"
Creative, thoughtful, humorous site. Among the many interesting articles see:
"The Necessity for Enlightened Thinking"
http://www.hermes-press.com/etch1.htm
"Daring to Think the Unthinkable About Sept. 11"
www.hermes-press.com/unthinkable1.htm
Police State USA?
www.hermes-press.com/police_state.htm
BERNARD WEINER: "The Bush 9/11 Scandal for Dummies"
truthout.com/docs_02/06.03D.bw.911.dum.htm
Done in Q&A form, argues that the administration knew an attack was coming and intentionally
chose not to act, so as to gain carte blanche for its political program. Important because the
author argues from a standard liberal perspective, and even ends with a pitch to vote Democratic in
2002. Skepticism is taking hold in the mainstream.
Published on the TRUTHOUT NEWS & POLITICS site:
www.truthout.com/
XYMPHORA
xymphora.blogspot.com/
A well-written and prolific blog, has taken the jackhammer to many official myths, including the
inconsistencies in evidence surrounding the alleged 9/11 hijackers and the impossible
contradictions in the various legends about Mohamed Atta and others. Updated constantly. If it's no
longer on the front page, search for the hilarious mid-June deconstruction of a Monty Python sketch
on ABC NEWS, which starred a woman alleging to be "Johnelle Bryant," an "Agriculture Department"
employee in "Florida" to whom "Atta" "applied for a loan to buy a cropduster," one month before he
actually entered the United States in May 2000. And that's merely the likeliest part of the
story...
THE SMOKING GUN
CHERYL SEAL: "The Case Against G.W. Bush: a Preliminary "Hearing" in the Court of Common
Sense"
web11.superb.net/www.nodomain.com/editorials/smoking_gun.h tml
Good timeline of the Sept. 11 attacks, strong argument that high officials were complicit in
allowing the attacks to go ahead. Excellent overview of stories suggesting prior knowledge, with a
few items not usually cited. Dubious-seeming theory about what happened at the Pentagon, but she
does have one evidentiary item in its favor.
CHERYL SEAL'S REGULAR COLUMN:
www.unknownnews.net/cdd061202.html
BRASSCHECK - KEN McCARTHY
www.brasscheck.com/
Fine writing on the absurdity of the official 9/11 story, as well as the Yugoslavia war, the agents
provocateurs who set off the rioting at the 1999 Seattle WTO protests, the War-by-Ritalin waged on
American children, and more.
THE MOVEMENT - FRANK LEVI
www.movement.v21net.co.uk/index.htm
Another 9/11 Skeptic tries to draw a full picture of the attacks in context. Well-argued. Various
perspectives on what may have happened at the Pentagon. Concludes with a plausible speculative
model on how the attacks may have occurred as a grand plot, but involving only a few dozen direct
controllers.
JAMES S. ADAM:
"TROUBLING QUESTIONS IN TROUBLING TIMES"
serendipity.magnet.ch/wot/adam.htm
Long treatment of the attacks, begins with detailed look at the original World Trade Center bombing
in 1993, deconstructing the official story in that case. No conclusions as to what/who was really
behind 9/11.
Max Kolskegg: "9/11: A Desperate Provocation By U.S. Capitalism"
www.indybay.org/news/2002/01/114281.php
A Marxist laments that the Left has failed to ask the relevant questions about 9/11, and merely
accepted at face value the line presented by the government, asking questions like "Why do THEY
hate us?" without even bothering with "What actually happened?" Kolskegg argues that an "inside
job," regardless of the exact line-up of perpetrators and accomplices, would necessarily involve an
element of desperation in the face of the now intractable global economic and financial crisis of
the American-centered system.
PROFESSIONAL PARANOID HOME PAGE - MICHAEL SWEENEY
www.proparanoid.com/
Must reading: "The 25 Rules of Disinformation."
www.proparanoid.com/truth.htm#t8
A worthy introduction to the mechanics of disinformation campaigns and media manipulation.
Revealing analysis of various 9/11 sub-plots with regard to the Taliban and the oil pipelines, the
pro-Taliban lobby in the U.S., etc. Interesting argument questioning the validity of the Le Figaro
story about Osama meeting the CIA in Dubai in July 2001. (In the meantime, it turns out that
Carlyle only owns 4% of Le Figaro and anyway, the story actually originated with French radio, but
Sweeney's points about curiosities in the story itself are worth considering.)
Too simplistically focused on oil as the cause of the war. This site could use more updates and an
editor.
CentrExNews.com - ALTERNATIVE NEWS / LINKS
www.centrexnews.com/
Links to news reports supporting the skeptical case as well as anti-statist and conspiracy articles
of all stripes, from left to right. Site managers seem to believe in a version of the New World
Order theory centered on the United Nations, but always has interesting items, without political
filters.
FOUR INTERESTING ARTICLES / GENERAL TREATMENTS:
RUSS KICK: "September 11, 2001: No Surprise"
www.loompanics.com/Articles/September11.html
Michael Rowbotham: "Written In Belief"
www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0110/S00021.htm
Jim Marrs: "Frameup"
groups.yahoo.com/group/frameup/message/410
"The Obscure Goat Story of 9-11"
209.123.142.199/lawgiver/911.asp
NOMOREFAKENEWS - JOHN RAPOPORT
nomorefakenews.com/
A one-man daily counter-analysis of everything you think you know. A real mind trip. Just when you
think you have him nailed down, he slips out of your grasp. Often brilliant, sometimes
exasperating. Wish he'd put more beef on the site, instead of the pay-newsletter. But everyone's
gotta make a living.
NYC INDYMEDIA CENTER
nyc.indymedia.org/
This is the New York version of a network of "Independent Media" sites that arose from the Seattle
1999 protests and the "anti-globalization" movement. Definitely the place for news on
demonstrations and organizing against the summits of the global power elite, IMF, G-8, World Bank,
Davos, EU, etc. The links on the left lead to IMC sites around the world. The most interesting
stuff (along with a lot of pointless tirades) is usually in the posts by readers, in the rightmost
column, which allow responses. The main articles of the IMC sites, in the center column, tend to be
big on left-liberation rhetoric and yet tepid in their conclusions. The ones on domestic American
politics that do not feature the rise of the new police state (a villain we can all agree on)
usually cater harmlessly to too many political flavors, from liberal democrats to peace punks to
the hard left. Often very good articles about the rest of the world, but the "IMC" brand name
overstates the case. In the final analysis, this is a ring of sites run mostly by individuals, just
like almost all of the other sites listed here.
Citizens for Legitimate Government, calls to action
www.legitgov.org/
Established after the 2000 election to "resist the Bush coup in all of its manifestations." Another
regularly updated site, well-done site with many links to suspicious 9/11 and general panic
stories, as well as the various ongoing crimes of the administration. But who is this "President
Gore" they keep talking about? Do they mean the one whose resistance to the Bush coup pre-Sept. 11
was to grow a beard and post-Sept. 11 amounted to standing up and saying, "President Bush is my
commander-in-chief"?
PETITION TO SENATE TO INVESTIGATE THE ODDITIES OF 9/11
www.petitiononline.com/11601TFS/petition.html
Perhaps should not allow people the option of including comments, as this encourages trolls,
rhetoric, and hate speeches. Up to 13,420 "signatures." Well-intentioned but honestly, I
don't see what an online petition accomplishes, since it's even easier to fake than a paper version
and the Senate won't heed it regardless. Also, no one who wants the true story should think that
they have done their part towards gaining disclosure by clicking on the petition (or forwarding a
chain e-mail). We need organization, street protests, media, lobby work, legal work, creative
propaganda... When you take a petition to a street table, you are achiving profile among those who
buy the official story.
The group who began the Petition to the Senate to Investigate the Oddities Involving 9/11
Terrorist Attacks has a website
http://falloutshelternews.com/
And a Yahoo group:
groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFalloutShelter
PRIOR KNOWLEDGE ARCHIVE - ANITA A. LITTLE
www.geocities.com/anitaalittle/archiveprior_knowledge.html
This has disappeared! I cannot find it on Google, either, but it was the largest and most
comprehensive collection of
"Hundreds of domestic, foreign, mainstream and alternative documents confirming the US had prior
knowledge, funded, trained, shepherded in and protected the al-Qaeda network and allowed September
11th to happen."
Does anyone know where it went?
September 11, 2001 - 9 Unpopular Ideas - Robert Lederman
baltech.org/lederman/9-11-unpopular.html
Provocative theses and style.
"Chandra Levy Found Just in Time to Save George Bush"
baltech.org/lederman/Bush-Chandra-Levy-5-23-2002.html
Lederman, who waged a relentless crusade against Rudy Giuliani on diverse issues such as the
persecution of artists under his 8-year regime and the spraying of pesticides over New York in
reaction to West Nile virus, has an otherwise interesting site on topics including the influential
Manhattan Institute, the doctrine of population control, and relationships between American money
elites and the Nazis.
baltech.org/lederman/
COUNTERPROPAGANDA AUDIO ARCHIVE
members.shaw.ca/revelation18/news.htm
LARGE archive of talk-radio clips by Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Mike Ruppert, Tom Flocco, John
Rapoport, Michael Springmann and many others. The webmaster is unfortunately enamored of David Icke
(the Alien Lizard theorist).
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED - MICHAEL RIVERO
www.whatreallyhappened.com/
There is no avoiding this site, which now gets more hits than Newsweek.com. Another milestone for
the media revolution, since this is a one-man site, though it is less impressive than it sounds:
the main Newsweek mirror is at MS-NBC. (Do the mainstream media even bother disguising their
monopoly structure anymore?)
Like it or not, "WhatReallyHappened" is probably the most visited of all 9/11 Skeptic sites, with
several million hits a week, and Rivero unapologetically propagates the fake terror/inside job
theory. He manages to update daily and tracks down nearly every story backing the skeptical
case.
Absolutely check out the quotes page.
The archives are impressive, especially the work on the CIA drug pipeline into Mena Airport in
Arkansas in the 1980s, a crime that implicates both then Vice-President Bush and the governor
who provided the cover, Bill Clinton. Mena is a miniature of the lie at the heart of American
politics: that either major party is in any way serious. Also worth a long look are the sections on
Operation Mockingbird, about the history of CIA infiltration among journalists and the media, and
on the Vince Foster case. Rather weaker is the section on the 2000 election, in which Rivero, who
spent years going after Clinton, claims Gore was the one who tried to steal the vote. Evidence?
Photos of election workers being too vigorous in shaking the chads. Give me a break - Brother Jeb
and Katherine Harris stole the show in advance of the election. (See Palast review,
above.)
As relentlessly as Rivero attacks and exposes the government spin of the day, he has increasingly
engaged in his own Daily Spin, not to mention overkill on the patriotic rhetoric. In supporting his
rant of the moment, he constantly recycles old articles and puts them up with the current date, and
often fails to recall if a given story was refuted long ago. He has no compunctions about taking
the flimsiest evidence and adding overblown statements, delivered with the finality of an angry
Superman pounding the table at the Justice League of America. Every day he will announce definitive
scoops on everything under the sun with headlines: "Aha! I told you John Walker Lindh was a CIA
plant!" I cite this example because I think it's a very credible idea that Johnny Taliban was part
of a psy-op with the intent of producing a bogus "America searches for her soul" story that would
fill the media for a month (which it did, incredibly). But how the hell does Rivero know that for
sure? He is incapable of self-doubt, and often contradicts yesterday's revelation with
today's.
In recent months one target turned into his true obsession: the Jews. I agree with his motto that
"telling the truth is not hate speech," but his generally justified criticisms of Israel and
Zionism are pitched in a way that panders to Jew-haters. I have seen plenty of people propagate the
Big Lie about "4,000 Jews did not go to work at the WTC on 9/11" (although hundreds of Jewish New
Yorkers died in the disaster) and then link to WhatReallyHappened as their favorite news source.
Before you scream "guilt by association," Rivero himself played on this theme by asking why a cited
estimate of 130 possible Israeli national fatalities was revised down to only one, and pretending
this is evidence that Israelis in general received advance warnings. (Because he is extremely
well-informed, I am sure he is aware that the original estimates of 400 British dead were revised
to about 80, and the cited 120 Japanese and 80 German fatalities were revised down to the single
digits.)
Until November 2001, the site had a broad and open-minded approach to 9/11. Since the story about
the Israeli spy ring operating inside the United States broke that month, however, Rivero has
focused on rants against Israel, almost to the exclusion of all else. No matter what new 9/11 story
breaks, Rivero is sure to announce that the U.S. government has arranged it as yet another "planned
distraction" from the story of the Israeli spy ring. He even claimed this of the Enron scandal and
the White House 9/11 foreknowledge revelations! Rivero quotes the same sentence from FOXNEWS
reporter Carl Cameron, about how information on the Israeli spy ring is classified, literally 15
times on his front page. When he's "proving" 9/11 must have been an Israeli job, he makes the case
just as totally (and simplistically) as when he "proves" that it was a cabal within the U.S.
government. So what do you really believe, Michael Rivero?
Rivero regularly accuses others of spreading misinformation and has naturally been attacked as a
misinformation artist himself, but I think he is at least as genuine as the New York Post, to which
he often links. His site is the angry tabloid of the 9/11 Skeptics movement. But the single note of
righteous outrage, however justified, has worn thin. I wish he would learn the important arts of
self-reflection and self-restraint.
INFOWARS - ALEX JONES
Big prior knowledge page, recommended:
infowars.com/resources.html
The rest of the INFOWARS site mixes the solid with the dubious. Jones is a talk-radio patriot host
in a rage about the Bohemian Grove, UN forces in black helicopters, the coming required
implantation of microchips in all citizens, etc., unfortunately combined with an anti-immigrant
stance that he mixes into a highly streamlined version of the New World Order as internationalist
plot.
Jones has produced a documentary video, "911: The Road to Tyranny," which can be downloaded in
its entirety here:
www.infowars.com/video_clips.html
His position on Sept. 11 is unequivocal:
"My friends, the government just didn't have prior knowledge of the September
11th al Qaeda attacks. They actually funded, trained, protected, coddled, and shepherded al
Qaeda into this country. Trained many of the terrorists at Pensacola Naval Air Station,
U.S.A., threatened F.B.I. and defense intelligence officers who tried to stop al Qaeda, threatened
them with arrest. Bush signed now public document W199I two months before September 11, threatening
them with arrest if they tried to stop al Qaeda."
We can argue or make excuses about what the motivations may have been at each step; yet these
statements are each true. Why shouldn't we combine them into a big picture, as Jones does, rather
than always assume government incoherence?
www.hermes-press.com/unthinkable1.htm
I have watched the first part of the video, which reduces the history of the last century,
including the world wars, to manipulations designed to justify world government. Most of the facts
he presents are true in themselves, but too boldly strung together and often far too simply
rendered. The logical development of a system that always required the selective use of
totalitarian means as the solution for its inevitable self-generated crises plays no role in his
understanding of history; it's always a unified set of top-level controllers driving all events in
the long term. (Don't they ever fight among themselves? Apparently not, because they are
"Satanists.")
The problem is that, despite his delivery in the style of the Great Kreskin, Jones is right about
the present move towards the establishment of a dehumanized tyranny. His angry, preachy style will
not be reaching the urban/suburban mainstream, but then again the mainstream is in for a lot of
ugly surprises that will make them wish they had felt more reason to be enraged long ago. He is
brave, having infiltrated the Bohemian Grove with a hidden camera, and confronted at public events
Janet Reno about the Waco massacre and George W. Bush (then governor) about the Federal Reserve. He
seems honest in his opposition to the whole establishment. He loudly opposes the rise of a domestic
police state, yet seems to see the sources of it in an anonymous, quasi-foreign power. (How does he
propose to control immigration without a police state?) But since the U.S. government really IS
establishing a dictatorship, complete with prison camps already in action, and since the
possibilities of microchip implantation and enforced vaccinations really have been raised, I can
agree with anyone on the primary defense of upholding the Bill of Rights and the Constitution as
the highest and absolute laws of the land.
Alex Jones is reaching an audience largely immune to complex theory, and warning them to fight the
rise of a tyranny that a more sophisticated analysis suggests is coming as a logical consequence of
systemic crisis anyway. What comes of it - how Jones's potential audience (or should I say
following?) reacts when the crisis really hits - is an open question.
SCHIPPERS / KLAYMAN / JUDICIAL WATCH
www.judicialwatch.org/
David Schippers claims government ignored specific advance warnings in interview by Alex
Jones:
www.infowars.com/transcript_schippers.html
Transcript of May 30th Schippers/Judicial Watch press conference with FBI Special Agent Robert
Wright, broadcast on C-SPAN:
http://www.infowars.com/jw_transcript.htm
Schippers became known to Americans as the prosecutor in the Clinton impeachment. For many people,
this may fail to inspire trust. As a conservative source (but registered Democrat), in the Jones
interview Schippers claims he was privy to specific FBI warnings that an attack was coming, that it
would involve hijacked airliners and the obvious targets in Lower Manhattan and Washington. He says
he called a number of officials about the warnings weeks in advance, including his former friend
John Ashcroft, but was blown off. Investigations that could have prevented the attacks were
obstructed or delayed, Schippers says.
As of October 2001, Schippers was representing a number of unnamed FBI agents who reportedly claim
they could have nailed the hijackers before Sept. 11, if they had been allowed:
www.judicialwatch.org/1075.shtml
Of Schippers' clients, so far Special Agent Robert Wright in Chicago has been brought forward in an
action staged together with Judicial Watch. Wright spoke at the May 30 press conference, linked
above.
Judicial Watch also claims that the administration is withholding information on advance
knowledge of the anthrax attacks, noting that White House staff was fed Cipro immediately after
Sept. 11, as the White House has admitted.
www.judicialwatch.org/1062.shtml
But this particular press release, which has been up without revision since October, strains to
make the untenable link between the anthrax attacks and Iraq, precisely the accusation raised by
the likes of James Woolsey, Richard Butler and others who seize on any excuse to level Iraq,
preferably yesterday. JW cites as credible their whole-cloth speculation that Mohamed Atta may have
received anthrax from an Iraqi agent in Prague, and even suggests that the Bush administration is
covering this up out of a reluctance to strike Iraq. (This will come as news to Pentagon planners
who are preparing the upcoming strike on Iraq.) In the meantime, the anthrax has been traced to
U.S. government stockpiles and the Czech authorities have admitted they never saw Atta meeting the
Iraqi agent. Is JW going to issue a correction?
Most recently (June 7) JW sued the government to release evidence on the anthrax
attack:
"Judicial Watch Wants to Know Why White House Went on Cipro Beginning
September 11th: What Was Known and When?"
A commendable and necessary action, but the group remains dubious.
Given the gravity of JW's accusations with regard to 9/11 and anthrax, it is disturbing to see that
the JW web site at the moment (June 18) is filled mainly with news about a defamation of character
suit against Clinton and James Carville on behalf of petulant Robert Barr, a well-known expert in
the arts of innuendo and defamation. Where is the sense of proportion? How serious is Judicial
Watch about its 9/11 cases?
Schippers, who is not directly affiliated with JW, is slippery about what he really knows or
thinks. In the interview with Jones, he wobbles vaguely between implying the attacks were
intentionally allowed to go ahead and the thesis of investigative failure due to bureaucratic
obstruction. At times he seems to suggest the failure was caused by a politically correct,
ideological unwillingness to go after Arabs. The interview veers off into extraneous apocrypha in
the same vein, for example about secret signals in the Binladin videos.
A sample: Schippers: "I just heard about the young man whose sister was injured in the World
Trade Center and he put up an American flag and some American slogans on his locker at school. They
gave him a ten-day suspension because they said it might be offensive to some of the Arab
students." Uh huh. So he heard. No school, city or source is actually mentioned. To which Jones
responds sarcastically, "Let's stop the evil American flag from being flown at your business or
at your university, but let's leave the Hamas people alone." For what it is worth, I
challenge Schippers to demonstrate that this incident really happened as
described.
The role of Schippers and Klayman is suspicious because they seem to withhold much of their
information, suggesting treasonous activities on the part of the government and yet invariably
concluding that the agencies of this same government must be given greater police powers to get at
perpetrators unspecified. In effect, their most recent efforts are aiding the "controlled-burn"
propaganda campaign to limit and spin 9/11 revelations in a fashion that supports the development
of a police state, and they have so far avoided calling for disclosure of what happened on Sept. 11
itself.
This crew gets a lot of play on spook-oriented and overtly pro-Bush news sources like NEWSMAX,
which is busy with its usual Clinton-obsessed jeremiad and trying to spin all 9/11 evidence to
implicate the infinitely corrupt Clinton and exonerate the innocent (but too easily duped)
Bush.
They may be genuine, they may be bought, or they may merely be looking for a new line of work
against the sitting administration, now that their favorite bogeyman has left Washington. But these
lawyers manage to combine strict ideology with more than a dash of opportunism, and they seem
unlikely to entertain theses that do not fit their agenda of the moment, no matter what evidence
comes up.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK
http://www.skolnicksreport.com/
Skolnick, who began his career as a legal crusader by successfully exposing corrupt judges in the
1960s, still runs an investigative office and hosts a cable TV show in Chicago. Since the attacks,
he has espoused his version of an "inside job" theory in a continuing series of articles called
"The Overthrow of the American Republic."
The most astonishing items Skolnick presents, he claims derive from his own research and protected
sources, quite possibly his imagination. One must concede his point that the manipulators of high
power don't generally leave a documentary record around for anyone to find, but how does Skolnick
always end up geting the full inside dope? To me, his hidden histories of the last 30 years are too
complete and detailed to be all true, though they contain much valid information, and he is too
facile in delivering instantaneous assessments of every event that comes along.
At the opposite extreme from solemn ideologue leftists like Michael Albert of Z-Magazine -
the man who refuses to look at events and empirical evidence (or even engage in debate) because he
thinks a set of abstract categories invented by Methuselah already tells him everything he will
ever need to know - Skolnick is incapable of seeing anything in history but the Big Plot. He at
least describes a world in which the actions of the powerful are attributable to the realistic
motive of securing power and wealth.
There is a whiff of a naive patriot's hope for benevelont tyranny in his description of a military
conspiracy of "flag officers," whom he says intended to arrest Clinton (the bastard son of a
Rockefeller, if we believe Skolnick) as the first step in restoring the American Republic to its
original constitutional form. These secret White Hats are still waiting for their moment against
Bush, though Skolnick identifies a number of them as officers who have been killed (or
assassinated) in plane crashes. Bad as government by the well-connected mobsters of both major
parties and their sponsors has been, it's impossible to see how this particular "solution" would
bring anything but bottomless disaster and fascism or civil war.
Skolnick seems to have never met a conspiracy theory he didn't like, and I am reluctant to cite him
on anything without independent confirmation. Which is no reason not to use his material as a
springboard to further research. His series on the death of a group of inconvenient witnesses
during the Watergate scandal, in the crash of United Airlines Flight UA533 in 1973 ("The
Secret History of Plane Sabotage") is quite interesting.
The most explosive potential finding he brings up concerns the following:
www.skolnicksreport.com/pkem.html
After the Gulf War, several thousand anti-Saddam Iraqi prisoners of war were allowed into the
United States as asylum-seekers and resettled in a number of towns, including a couple of thousand
in Oklahoma City and Lincoln, Nebraska. Skolnick says members of this group were organized by U.S.
intelligence services as a hidden mercenary force and used in black ops by both the Bush and
Clinton administrations. These are trained military or intelligence officers, and Skolnick expects
one of them is the Arab "John Doe No. 2" tied by many to Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City
bombing. As usual citing his own exclusive intelligence sources, Skolnick says this group provided
the actual foot-soldiers of the Sept. 11 attacks, which were allowed to go ahead in full
foreknowledge by a cornered Bush administration as "America's Reichstag Fire." Let us note also
that if U.S. covert operators recruited among this group, then they would have excellent
Arabic-speaking agents for infiltrating Qaeda. Of course, genuine Qaeda operatives might
themselvesview these anti-Saddam Iraqis as a perfect pool of potentials recruits. The question then
becomes: who is a double, who is a triple agent?
JOE VIALLS
"The Mother of All Lies About Sept. 11"
www.geocities.com/subliminalsuggestion/olson.html
"Electronic Hijack"
geocities.com/mknemesis/homerun.html
"The First 9/11" (White House Kamikaze, Sept. 11, 1994)
geocities.com/roboplanes/cessna.html
I hesitate to link to Vialls, a British engineer who in other articles cannot stop jabbering in
truly vicious and inhuman fashion about the nasty, all-powerful Jews or the treacherous French, and
whose reasoning frequently seems to derail into the outlandish. But these three articles in
particular engage in limited speculation, and have been influential among certain skeptics, so I
include them here. The first questions the story of whether Barbara Olson really called anyone from
Flight 77, and is difficult to argue with. The next two lay out a possible version of how the
planes may have been hijacked by remote control, using a pre-installed system designed to allow
control from the ground. But once the planes were taken over by remote, even if the pilots could
not override the system, what kept them from making radio contact about their dilemma?
AMERICAN PATRIOT FAX (or FRIENDS) NETWORK
www.apfn.org/
Militia-oriented anti-government site, dates back to Ruby Ridge. Rather disturbing mission
statement holds that, "A Patriot is one who loves God, Family and Country... We believe Patriots
should rule America." The site is full of kitsch.
The APFN network was originally a chain-fax group galvanized by two genuine domestic atrocities of
the government: Ruby Ridge and Waco. They believe the Oklahoma City bombing and the Sept. 11
attacks continue in the same vein, as acts of a federal government looking for pretexts to
overthrow the Constitution. I wish they could get past their limited perspective, for example by
acknowledging that the fury of the state is not limited to "Patriots." After all, an earlier
version of Waco occurred with the bombing of the MOVE house in Philadelphia in 1985 - but oh my
God, those were black radicals! The self-idenfitied members of the Patriots' movement are simply
incapable of accepting that the government they fight is genuinely American (albeit
unconstitutional and war-generating) and so they assume the real enemy lies in a foreign force (the
NWO, Israel, or some form of Socialism) that has secretly corrupted or taken over the government.
That being said, dissidents on the left and the right now face the same emerging dictatorship, and
leftists themselves need to acknowledge that Waco, the seminal event in the right-wing militia
mind-set, was a bona-fide massacre by the U.S. government. Is there a way anti-statists on the left
and right can transcend their differences so as to defend and expand democratic rights? It would
help if APFN were more circumspect about the symbols and meaning of patriotism, and willing to
tolerate its many different expressions. It would help if they see that America is a word with many
different meanings. The "America" I love is not a flag, a song, or a myth of the Founding Fathers -
it is a people with good and bad among them, like any other.
WHAT MATTERS? - WIGLAF BOUDEWIJN, SWEDEN www.whatmatters.nu/wmemails/wmemailsindex.html
This newsletter, which aims to devise a non-exploitative finance system, has declared 9/11 a "grand
plot" to transform the world in the service of ruling elites.
CovertAction Quarterly
www.covertaction.org/writers_main.htm
Unfortunately this important magazine's site has not been updated this century. This is not a
review, it is a plea.
DRUDGE REPORT - MATT DRUDGE
www.drudgereport.com/
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Behind the FOXy Facade
Is Matthew Drudge a Hidden 9/11 Skeptic?
What the hell, it sounds like the kind of story he would "break." I include his site
because Drudge is the Zeitgeist. This is what we must deal with. If you want to know what the
Dilbert Majority are talking about in their cubicles, Drudge's trash sheet is reliable for
accurately gauging the Media Hysteria of the Day, whatever it is. Plus he has links to the entire
American Punditocracy and half the major news sites in the world. Drudge is basically a self-made
gossip columnist who, like Rivero, gets more hits than Newsweek. Who the hell said the Media
Revolution would be progressive?
...developing
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REUTERS | Breaking News from Around the Globe
www.reuters.com/
Not yet.
