“Fabled Enemies”, a new documentary video that challenges the official version of 9/11, is the latest in the ever-expanding list of films and videos dealing with the topic, which have varied greatly in worth. Though not without flaws, the video is a refreshing change of course from a great many of the less valuable ones [...]
A recent article in the New York Times explains how many Arabs in the Middle East accept rumors about the attacks of 9/11 and the subsequent war on terrorism as conventional wisdom, while at the same time both failing to see that behind many rumors lies at least an element…
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released its final report on the collapse of the World Trade Center 7 building on Thursday, 6 years after it began its investigation into the collapses of WTC buildings on September 11, 2001. …
U.S. intelligence agencies have publicly claimed that intercepted communications show that officers of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan’s intelligence agency, were responsible for the bombing of India’s embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan on July 7. The government of Afghanistan has accused Pakistan of being behind the attack, as well as an earlier…
Earlier this year, Jane’s Information Group ranked Afghanistan as one of the world’s most unstable countries, following the Palestinian territories and Somalia. Last month, Foreign Policy magazine ranked Afghanistan at number eight on its failed states index. Violence in Afghanistan has grown steadily over the years, so that it is…
The Bush administration has been frustrated in its policies of detaining prisoners in the “war on terrorism” by a number of court decisions recently. On June 12, the Supreme Court ruled that detainees at Guantanamo Bay detention facility had a right to challenge their incarceration with writs of habeas corpus,…
There still remains some controversy over the real reasons the U.S. went to war in Iraq. The official reasons for the war, that Iraq had WMD and threatened to supply them to terrorist organizations, namely al-Qaeda, intent upon using them against the U.S., have long since proven to be false…
To commemorate the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, the New York Times published ten op-eds explaining what the US can do to ensure that such an attack doesn’t occur again. Much thought was clearly put into each of these astounding answers, and it must have been…
When Charlie Sheen called into The Alex Jones Show on the Genesis Communications radio network to express doubts about the official version of what happened on 9/11, he was, predictably, immediately attacked by a number of media pundits. The New York Post, for example, said that Sheen “has joined the…
The final report of the 9/11 Commission assured us that “To date, the U.S. government has not been able to determine the origin of the money used for the 9/11 attacks.” One might be inclined to think that the inability to track the money trail to the parties responsible for…
“Conspiracy theory”. It’s a phrase we’ve all heard before. And it has certain unavoidable connotations that result from its common usage. The implication is often that anything dubbed a “conspiracy theory” is an outrageous absurdity. It is something ridiculed by intelligent and rational persons, only embraced by lunatics, or radicals…
Insider Trading There…have been claims that al Qaeda financed itself through manipulation of the stock market based on its advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks. Exhaustive investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, FBI, and other agencies have uncovered no evidence that anyone with advance knowledge of the attacks profited…
Jeremy R. Hammond is an independent political analyst and a recipient of the Project Censored Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism. He is the founding editor of Foreign Policy Journal (www.foreignpolicyjournal.com) and can also be found on the web at JeremyRHammond.com. His new book, "Ron Paul vs. Paul Krugman: Austrian vs. Keynesian economics in the financial crisis", is now available at Amazon.com.
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