The Bin Ladens: The Story of a Family and Its Fortune by Steve Coll   By Robert Vitalis* Steve Coll’s book tells two stories: a big one about how the bin Laden family cashed in on the oil bonanza in Saudi Arabia, and a smaller one about Osama’s role in the family business before he [...]

A missive to Mr. Richard Boucher, US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs By Anwaar Hussain Mr. Boucher, Judging by your call to ‘reform the ISI’, you, sir, seem to be in dire need of some advice. We understand that you are stung by your abject failure in Iraq and the looming near [...]

By Bill Noxid It took a particularly long time to find any hint of reality on television yesterday. I decided that I wasn’t interested in watching the still complicit media and criminally culpable government pretend to morn the deaths of September 11, so my options were even more limited than usual. All of the cable [...]

By James Petras Picture: The esteemed Reverend Jeremiah Wright sermon right after 9/11. Two full and downloadable (audio) sermons by Reverend Jeremiah Wright: the “911 sermon” and the “God damn, America” sermon. Introduction The sustained vituperative attack and the feeble apologetic defense of Reverend Wright’s brilliant, eloquent and substantive sermon [video] in defense of human [...]

The Case Of Fooling Most Of The People, Most Of The Time By John Chuckman This year marks the forty-fourth anniversary of John Kennedy’s assassination. What is most remarkable about this is the stunningly simple fact that, despite innumerable books and several official investigations, we still do not know what happened in 1963. Not understanding [...]

While Geraldo Rivera of Fox News was trying to broadcast on 9/11 from Times Square. [coolplayer width="384" height="304" autoplay="0" loop="0" charset="utf-8" download="1" mediatype=""] Geraldo Rivera, 9/11, Times Square [/coolplayer]

Here are 40 experts, including the Chairman, 9/11 Commission, Thomas H. Kean, Former Governor of New Jersey and Vice Chairman, 9/11 Commission, Lee Hamilton, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Homeland Security Advisory Council ~ sounding off in short quotes about their misgivings with the 9/11 commission and the too many questions that are still UNANSWERED [...]