September 11th - Salon.com http://dir.salon.com/topics/911/?source=rss&aim=911 en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT 9/11 widow: Do I really want the truth? By Alissa Torres Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/09/11/911_widow/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/09/11/911_widow/index.html?source=rss My husband jumped from the towers eight years ago. At least, that's what I always thought happened Love in the time of terrorism By Aaron Traister Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/09/10/traister_september_11/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/09/10/traister_september_11/index.html?source=rss Sept. 11 ruined countless lives. Should I feel guilty that it changed mine irrevocably -- for the better? Conservative writer: Obama plans "to desecrate 9/11" By Alex Koppelman Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/08/24/911/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/08/24/911/index.html?source=rss The president allegedly wants to make Sept. 11 "into a day of leftist celebration and statist idolatry" Why this lifelong Republican may vote for Obama By Michael Smerconish Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/09/11/hunting_binladen/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/09/11/hunting_binladen/index.html?source=rss The party of Bush and McCain outsourced the hunt for bin Laden, failing to accomplish a vital mission since 9/11. The failure of Bush policy post-9/11 By Andrew Bacevich Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/09/11/bacevich/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/09/11/bacevich/index.html?source=rss The "global war on terror" is over -- and we lost. McCain camp broke 9/11 truce By Alex Koppelman Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/09/12/truce_ad/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/09/12/truce_ad/index.html?source=rss Despite a pledge not to campaign as normal, John McCain released a new attack ad; unsurprisingly, it's filled with distortions. The souls of young Muslim folk By Justin Jouvenal Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2008/08/26/young_muslims/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2008/08/26/young_muslims/index.html?source=rss What it's like to be America's new "problem" in the age of terror. Quote of the day By Alex Koppelman Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/06/19/qotd/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/06/19/qotd/index.html?source=rss Barack Obama's response to Republicans' using 9/11 as a political weapon against him? Bring it on. Terror and loathing By Laura Miller Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/04/02/amis/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/04/02/amis/index.html?source=rss Martin Amis may not know much about Islam and 9/11, but he knows what he hates. Of war and cancer By Gary Kamiya Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2008/03/18/iraq_anniversary/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2008/03/18/iraq_anniversary/index.html?source=rss Five years after Bush invaded Iraq, anti-Americanism has metastasized. But we can still beat it. McCain apes Bush on Iraq, as Dems stand passively by By Gary Kamiya Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2008/02/12/mccain_iraq_war/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2008/02/12/mccain_iraq_war/index.html?source=rss His hard-liner stance should doom McCain with most voters, but unless Democrats put the war back on top of the national agenda, he might get away with it. Quote of the day By Alex Koppelman Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/01/04/qotd/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/01/04/qotd/index.html?source=rss Rudy Giuliani says he isn't worried about the state of his presidential campaign -- guess why? Most Dems no better than Bush on Pakistan By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/01/03/pakistan_policy/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/01/03/pakistan_policy/index.html?source=rss The Bush administration's bungling in Pakistan and Afghanistan has led to a resurgent Taliban and al-Qaida and loss of U.S. influence in the region. But Democrats did little to stop it. Rudy's past coming back with a vengeance By Alex Koppelman Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/12/19/giuliani/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/12/19/giuliani/index.html?source=rss Two groups are mobilizing anew against Rudy Giuliani, hoping to inform voters about some of the skeletons in his closet. The poisonous rhetorical legacy of Karl Rove By Juan Cole Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/08/20/rove/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/08/20/rove/index.html?source=rss Even Fox's Chris Wallace wants to know why Bush's newly departed advisor had to paint Democrats as traitors. After 9/11, Rudy wasn't a rescue worker -- he was a Yankee By Alex Koppelman Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/08/18/rudy_yankees/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/08/18/rudy_yankees/index.html?source=rss Giuliani said he spent as much time at ground zero as many rescue workers. Where was he really? Much of the time, at baseball games. America under surveillance By Tim Shorrock Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/08/09/domestic_surveillance/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/08/09/domestic_surveillance/index.html?source=rss Granted new power to spy inside the U.S., the Bush administration may be doing more than eavesdropping on phone calls -- it could be watching suspects' every move. What an anti-Giuliani ad should say By Robert Polner Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/03/13/swiftboat_rudy/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/03/13/swiftboat_rudy/index.html?source=rss Forget his messy personal life. Democrats should go right at his supposed strength -- 9/11 -- the same way Republicans attacked John Kerry's Vietnam service. The reason we haven't noticed American Muslims condemning terrorism By Paul M. Barrett Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/03/01/barrett/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/03/01/barrett/index.html?source=rss Actually, they do, but until recently it was often in ways that their fellow Americans had a hard time hearing. Stock market mayhem: "Look out below!" By Andrew Leonard Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/02/27/market_correction/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/02/27/market_correction/index.html?source=rss The last time Wall Street shuddered like this, we knew the reason why: Sept. 11. This time, it's not so easy to figure out. "Conspiracy 911" By David Puner Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/misc/2007/02/27/conspiracy_911_apeman888/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/misc/2007/02/27/conspiracy_911_apeman888/index.html?source=rss New short from the creator of "Spiders on Drugs." What we lost By Joan Walsh Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/09/09/loss/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/09/09/loss/index.html?source=rss Almost 3,000 Americans died on Sept. 11, 2001. But our losses are still mounting -- in Iraq and at home -- thanks to the bullying, big-lie culture that dominates American politics today. The Sept. 11 that never was By Joe Conason Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2006/09/08/path_to_9_11/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2006/09/08/path_to_9_11/index.html?source=rss ABC's docudrama "The Path to 9/11" is a false version of history. It popularizes right-wing myths by exaggerating Clinton's failures and Bush's successes, depicting events that never happened. Terminal frustration By Patrick Smith Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/09/06/airline_security/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/09/06/airline_security/index.html?source=rss Is air travel safer since 9/11? Yes, there have been some effective changes. But most of the so-called security measures have been irrational, wasteful and pointless. When will we learn? Getting beyond our airport security obsession By Patrick Smith Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/08/10/bomb/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/08/10/bomb/index.html?source=rss Confiscating corkscrews and tweezers didn't make us safer after Sept. 11. And banning liquids isn't going to make us safer now.