Ten years ago today, on September 11th 2001, al-Qaida terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. Passengers on a fourth jet overpowered hijackers, bringing it down in a field. Almost 3,000 people lost their lives that day.
In a video produced for the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, some of those caught in New York that day tell their stories.
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Thomas Reuter
(ARC Future Fellow at University of Melbourne)
Much of the the truth about 9/11 still remains to be told, and many questions were raised even in the official 9/11 report. Yet it is almost taboo to express any doubt about the official narrative.
Witness he brainwashing of a generation... The legitimization for the dismantling of individual rights in nearly all western democracies... The excuse for the reintroduction of torture as a 'method' of investigation... The excuse for the killing of tens of thousands of people in Iraq and Afganistan... A source of billions of dollars of revenue for 'reconstruction' firms like Haliburton...
Cui bono? To fail to ask this question is to adopt a preschool attitude towards politics. Time to wake up...
Giles Pickford
Retired, Wollongong (logged in via email @bigpond.com)
There is much talk about “the day that changed the world”, referring to the bombing of the World Trade Centre. I have been thinking about this and trying to define what it means. Here are my conclusions.
First of all war never changes anything. We are talking about a war that began in the 11th Century during the Crusades and of which the bombing of the World Trade Centre is just the latest part.
As the French Jesuit Philosopher Charles Péguy said “War is a game in which, irrespective of how…
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