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ROOTS OF CONFLICT:
The World Trade Center Tragedy - A Letter to Academics and Scholars
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Our world has changed, in more dimensions than we yet know or understand. The impact of these events ranges far beyond the tragic deaths, new security measures, or even 'the war on terrorism'. Freedom, fear, culture clash, globalization, religion, terrorism, perceptions, politics, propaganda, and emotion are entangled in the issues we face - and understanding their interrelations as well as their implications is paramount. No matter what actions America takes in response, the decisions we make now will shape the world of tomorrow. The editors of The Global Dialog Project invite you to participate in this debate, and to help make it into a dialog in which we learn from each other, share our grief, and come to new understandings of the world we live in, so that tragedies like this need never happen again. |
NEW Portland police refuse to cooperate with U.S. questioning Portland refuses to cooperate on arbitrary questioning of non-suspects NEW Scalia Could Save Us From Bush's Kangaroo Court Harley Sorensen: "I can't help but wonder what freedom-loving people in other nations are thinking about the unraveling of American democracy these days. " NEW In War, It's Power to the President - "On a wide variety of fronts, the administration has moved to seize power that it has shared with other branches of government. The New War Against Terror - Noam Chomsky addresses basic questions and solutions to terrorism NEW Foreign Policy Readings "any effective fight against terrorism must be mainly a political not a military one" NEW 'No wonder the media is cowed' - "I just don't understand why debate equals dissent, and dissent equals lack of patriotism now." An interview with Susan Sontag NEW Gagging the sceptics - "The charge of "anti-Americanism" is itself profoundly anti-American. If the US does not stand for freedom of thought and speech, for diversity and dissent, then we have been deceived as to the nature of the national project." NEW Shocked and Horrified - A controversial attempt to put the events of 9-11 into global context. NEW A Spiritual Perspective on the World Trade Center Tragedy - "All the world's religions encourage us to forgive those who have hurt us, to do good to those who hate us, and to pray for those who abuse us." NEW Oil War II, the Sequel: The Empire Strikes Back in the Caspian "all regional powers are focusing increasingly on how to protect or enlarge their access to vital resources over the next generation. " MORE ON OIL AND THE WAR NEW Follow the Oil Trail - Mess in Afghanistan Partly Our Government's Fault A prescient piece by a anthropologist on the situation in Afghanistan in 1997 NEW Chronic underfunding of US HUMINT plays role in intelligence failures Loss of funding for human skills, not high-tech, a cause. NEW Folly of aid and bombs "...the US is prepared to drop, at its own best estimate, barely one quarter of one day's needs." NEW U.S. Senator Debates Anti-Terrorist Bill"...crucial that civil liberties in this country be preserved" NEW HUMOR Freedoms Curtailed in Defense of Liberty - "Now is not the time for such divisive, destructive things as dialogue and debate" America's tragedy makes protest taboo US sets its sights on Saddam - If America decides to extend its war on terrorism to include Iraq, the consequences could be disastrous A soldier with personal experience in Afghanistan discusses key military issues -by Richard Kidd Why Middle Eastern Terrorists Hate the United States The roots of Afghan terrorism With us or against us - "In America the "war against terror" sanctions some surprising alliances... "(from Al-Ahram, Cairo) The September 11th Source Books:Volume 1: Terrorism and U.S. Policy - National Security Archive experts select these resources as the most important available primary sources on U.S. terrorism policy. NEW Killing Civilians: Behind the Reassuring Words Fighting the Good Fight: Fundamentalism and Religious Revival - by William O. Beeman NEW God Angrily Clarifies 'Don't Kill' Rule - A humorously serious take on recent events FAV The folly of quick action in Afghanistan - by Ashraf Ghani. Commentary on useful approaches to Afghanistan. FAV Loyal Opposition: IDEAS, NOT MISSILES? - Counter Methods for Countering Terrorism by David Corn The algebra of infinite justice - novelist Arundhati Roy challenges the instinct for vengance
A Question of Decency
Never mind the pundits, the root cause remains the same
Media Pundits Advocate Civilian Targets ".. prominent journalists have been advocating military strategies that violate the laws of war and mirror the strategies of terrorists"
Food for thought for the Militarists
Light in the Darkness In the names of our loved ones,let us ask for more light and love in the world, for they are what, in the end, stand between us and the darkness. "We cannot fight for human rights using inhuman means." An open letter from the Palestinian Center "When the elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers." Impressionistic Collage Bush is walking into a trap says the UK paper The Independent "I believe violence will only increase the cycle of violence." The Dalai Lama's Letter to Bush |