Alternative News Sources on the Crisis

Jim Spickard's University of Redlands Website

Alternative News and Commentary on the September 11th Terrorist Attack and its Aftermath

alternative news sites	alternatives to a war on terror	legal issues	on terrorism
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useful books	statements, commentaries, and teaching resources	on pacifism	on Arabs & Islam
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Bush Administration views, plus selected right-wingers	On the Impact of the Bombing		background on Afghanistan, the Middle East, etc.
	poetry	cartoons

Alternative News Sites:

MotherJones.Com -- news and commentary from a responsible Left perspective

Pacific News Service -- "more than one lens to view the world"

Pacifica Radio -- alternative news source

AlterNet -- from the Independent Media Service

Civic Media Center -- links to articles on September 11th & its aftermath

Z Magazine -- progressive news & commentary

Center for InterGlobal Communication -- a site hosting alternative news and organizations

Pax.Protest.Net -- a network of news about peacemaking activities

Common Dreams News Center -- "breaking news and views for the progressive community"

Rainbow Puddle -- special page of alternative news on September 11th aftermath

older links from that page

On Terrorism:

	Philip C. Wilcox, Jr: "The Terror" (the former U.S. Ambassador at large for Counterterrorism)
	John Paul Lederach: "The Challenge of Terror"
	Robert Reich: "How to Be Tough on Terrorism"
	Timothy Garton Ash: "Is There A Good Terrorist?"
	A series of articles on Anthrax, from the journal Nature.

Alternatives to the War on Terror:

(click HERE to take you to the new, expanded page on Alternatives to the War)

From the Ashes: A Spiritual Response to the Attacks on America (Rodale Press)

Legal Issues:

	Ronald Dworkin: "The Threat to Patriotism"
	Arhey Neier: "The Military Tribunals on Trial"

For more on the threat to civil liberties, see this site's
Eroding Liberties page

Various Statements, Commentaries, and Teaching Resources:

Thich Nhat Hahn: "What I Would Say to Osama bin Laden"

Bill Moyers: "This Isn't the Speech I Expected to Give Today ... "
(A keynote address to the Environmental Grantmakers Association, October 16, 2001.)

Barbara Kingsolver:

"What Has Changed For All Of Us"

"A Pure, High Note of Anguish"

"No Glory in Unjust War on the Weak"

Orhan Pamuk: "The Anger of the Damned"

Molly Ivins: "Why Do They Hate Us"

"Condemnation Without Absolutes" by Stanley Fish

Column of the Americas (by Patrisia Gonzalez & Roberto Rodriguez)

Homicide, Suicide, Genocide

On a Hopi Prophecy

Dia de los Muertos

Scholars Reflect on the Events (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Sociologists Reflect on the Events (ASA Footnotes)

Social Science Research Council

Articles on the Crisis

Teaching Materials for High School & College

Commentary by Noam Chomsky (Z Magazine)

	"Terror and Teachers, and Excuses and Explanations" by Richard Rothstein (New York Times)
	"U.S. reaction predictable but wrong" by Yone Sugita (Japan Today)
	"Politics in the Name of the Prophet" from Le Monde Diplomatique

	UofR Provost Phil Glotzbach's Reflections
	Friends Committee on National Legislation Statement
	Quaker Joint Statement in Response to the Bombing Campaign
	A letter from Colombia
	A Statement from the Catholic Worker communities
	Joint Civil Society Statement

On the Impact of the Bombing:

Starvation in Afghanistan

Oxfam Briefing Note on the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan

"A Silent Genocide" by Faiza Rady

More Facts on Afghanistan food situation

Physicians for Human Rights web site on the U.S. Attack

Bush Administration Views and Analysis thereof:

The White House web site (search for President Bush's Speeches)

A Communication Theorist's Analysis of
President Bush's First Speech
(along with a suggestion for what he might have said)

Some background materials from the National Security Archive

An organizational chart of the Administration's counter-terrorism initiatives (chemical-biological weapons branch)

A right-wing report entitled "Defending Civilization: How Our Universities are Failing America and What Can Be Done About It", by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni.

Webmaster's Note:
For those of us who lived through the McCarthyism of the early 1950s, the FBI repression of the late 1960s, and the Reagan attacks on free speech in the early 1980s, this is a scary document. Note that its selective quotes and overall rhetoric lump all dissenters with the terrorists. Are we starting down this road again? -- js

2nd Note:
ACTA took so much flak for publishing this "report" that it changed the original version by removing specific professor's names, substituting such things as "Professor of _______ at MIT". This seems to blame schools, not individuals, but it still encourages repression, takes quotes out of context, and equates honest questions with disloyalty. I'll raise their grade from "F" to "D" -- and still flunk them for intellectual dishonesty!

A response from the American Association of Colleges & Universities web site

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