On September 11, 2006 author, David Bernans (who is also a Concordia graduate student, a former part-time Concordia Political Science professor, a recent Concordia Graduate Student Association president) planned a Concordia University reading from his historical novel, North of 9/11 (Cumulus Press, 2006). The event was approved then later revoked by University security, deeming Bernans a security risk. (more…)

BOSTON (Reuters) - A University of New Hampshire professor has come under fire from state politicians for teaching his unconventional view that a U.S. government conspiracy allowed the September 11, 2001 attacks to occur.

William Woodward, a professor of psychology at the Durham, New Hampshire, university, belongs to Scholars for 9/11 Truth, a group which believes it took more than two planes to bring down the Twin Towers and that an explosive charge in the building’s basement played a role. (more…)

While Army privates died overseas earning $25,000 a year, David Brooks, the disgraced former CEO of body-armor maker DHB, made $192 million in stock sales in 2004. He staged a reported $10 million bat mitzvah for his daughter. The 2005 pay package for Halliburton CEO David Lesar, head of the firm that most symbolizes the occupation’s waste, overcharges, and ghost charges on no-bid contracts, was $26 million, according to the report’s analysis of federal Securities and Exchange Commission filings.

“Those examples take the cake, especially because it’s all related to their government contracts, which is money straight out of the taxpayer’s pocket,” Leondar-Wright said.

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A U.S. Army sergeant, Iraq War veteran, Purple Heart recipient and intelligence analyst has been accused of sending an e-mail containing “messages disloyal to the United States.”

The reason for this accusation? He wrote that circumstances surrounding the 9-11 attacks raise questions about the official story, according to published reports.

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There is strong evidence that the US administration’s recent public statements that it is now willing to negotiate with Iran are highly disingenuous: they are designed not to reach a diplomatic solution to the so-called “Iran crisis”, but to remove diplomatic hurdles toward a military “solution”.

The administration’s public gestures of a willingness to negotiate with Iran are rendered utterly meaningless because such alleged negotiations are premised on the condition that Iran suspends its uranium-enrichment program.

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A cabinet minister recently ruffled feathers in the Jewish community by calling for a UN investigation into possible Israeli “carpet bombs.” Merkel and the Jewish council president met Wednesday to clear things up.The meeting was deemed necessary after Wieczorek-Zeul came under fire from Knobloch and the council when, during a visit to Lebanon, she called for a UN investigation into claims that Israel used carpet bombs in the campaign.

The Central Council of Jews has accused Wieczorek-Zeul of stirring up anti-Jewish sentiment in Germany.

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From WRH:

Notice in this article that there is absolutely no denial of the reality that Israel used cluster bombs in heavily populated areas: just pointing it out ‘hurt the feelings’ of some members of the community.

Gaza hospitals are facing a crisis because of a western and Israeli economic boycott, and an Israeli military offensive. The United Nations has warned of an increasingly desperate humanitarian situation.

“The siege and closure imposed by Israel have hindered medical aid from Jordan, Qatar, the Red Cross and the EU from reaching us,” said Dr Ma’awiya Hasanein, general manager of the emergency section in the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip.

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For months, I have railed against the absurd neocon averment that Islam constitutes the embodiment of a new fascism. I have insisted the phrase “Islamofascism” is nothing if not a trite neologism, a meaningless political epithet. In effect, the term is used in a simplistic way to crank up the fear quotient. (more…)

CBC Radio’s “The Current” and Scholars for 9/11 Truth

Most of us, I would guess, are well aware of the constructed nature of the news and news commentaries fed to us daily by the corporate or “mainstream” media. We’re not surprised to find, in those cases where we have managed to obtain independent knowledge of a subject, that mainstream news stories are often only tenuously connected to what appears to have been the actual series of events. And we’re coming to expect, on the part of the people who construct these news stories and tell us how to interpret them, an increasingly slender respect for such archaic notions as truth, rudimentary ethics, and intellectual integrity. (more…)

Forced to issue response to 9/11 truth movement questions on official website

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is set to conclude its investigation of the World Trade Center complex by analyzing if bombs brought down WTC 7, the 47 story skyscraper that was not hit by a plane yet collapsed in a controlled demolition style in under seven seconds. (more…)