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September 25, 2006 Issue

Alexander Cockburn analyzes 9/11 conspiracy buffs, Eric Boehlert looks at the Bush-manipulated media, Gary Younge reviews Londonstani.

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Editorial

A Passion for Pluto

Pluto's demotion from a planet to a dwarf isn't the work of mean-spirited Grinches. It is a necessary part of the same process that got Pluto discovered in the first place.

Marla Geha

The Real Tragedy

Five years after the attack, Americans are impatient and angry about what has been done in their name. Our national tragedy is not September 11 but the war in Iraq, an agony that p...

Eric Weinberger

A Just Response

The most effective response to terrorism involves nonmilitary actions in cooperation with the global community and within a framework of domestic and international law.

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Plame’s Role at the CIA

Valerie Plame was no CIA paper-pusher. She was searching out intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

David Corn

Knock on Wood

The Bush Administration's illegitimate use of renditions, disappearances, torture and an illegal war has fostered the growth of a loose-knit global band of fanatics willing to do u...

David Cole

The Path From 9/11

The fifth anniversary of 9/11 prompts grief and sadness, but also anger. We must free ourselves from the idea that the "war on terror" is an organizing principle for our foreign po...

The Editors

Column

Failing the Test

President Bush was correct when he said that not since the cold war has the nation been so tested. But the test lies not in the terror threat but in his Administration's incompeten...

Robert Scheer

Islamo-Fascism–Take Two

If we really want to understand the Muslim world, we should start by acknowledging that today's "fascists" were yesterday's freedom fighters.

Katha Pollitt

The 9/11 Conspiracy Nuts

August Bebel once called anti-Semitism the socialism of fools. These days, the 9/11 conspiracy fever is fast becoming the "socialism" of the left.

Alexander Cockburn

George Bush’s Pledge to the People of New Orleans on the Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina

Calvin Trillin

Letters

The Greening of America

New York City

Mark Hertsgaard and Our Readers

Feature

Bush’s Sitcom Nominee

Warren Bell honed his reputation writing sitcoms and lobbing politically incorrect bombs for National Review Online. Now he's Bush's nominee for the Corporation for Public B...

Celia Viggo Wexler

ABC 9/11 Docudrama’s Right-Wing Roots

How conservative zealot David Horowitz produced and promoted ABC's flawed docudrama, The Path to 9/11.

Max Blumenthal

Chaos and Fear Stalk Afghanistan on 9/11 Anniversary

As Taliban fighters clash with thinly spread NATO forces across Afghanistan and "suicide cell" claims lives daily in Kabul, hope is fading that the country can avoid descending int...

Christian Parenti

Gaping Holes Remain in the 9/11 Story

It's no wonder so many Americans are examining alternative explanations that range from the plausible to the absurd.

Robert Scheer

Politics, the Media and 9/11

Since September 11, the Bush Administration has repeatedly exploited the threat of terrorism for political ends, from dirty bombs to sleeper cells to electoral politics.

Eric Boehlert

Cashing In on Catastrophe

Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is now using his public image, burnished by 9/11, to conceal crooked business deals and reap handsome profits from a national tragedy.

Wayne Barrett and Dan Collins

A Light in Brooklyn

In Brooklyn, a beleaguered Arab-American community copes with bigotry and heightened government scrutiny post-9/11.

Moustafa Bayoumi

Arab America’s September 11

Arab Americans are experiencing something similar to McCarthy-era redbaiting, but the cold war performed better on racial justice than Bush's "war on terror."

Moustafa Bayoumi

9/11 in a Movie-Made World

What if the Twin Towers hadn't collapsed? Would the Bush Administration have so easily advanced its fear-inspired "war on terror" without the images that played on a culture's secr...

Tom Engelhardt