Where Do We Go from There? A Meditation on 9/11

By Ian Baldwin (Editorial)

Why, you may ask, would a small Vermont journal about independence pause to dedicate an entire issue to 9/11? Why bend now, four whole years after the murders, to poke a grim national wound most Americans seem to believe has been finally salved, bandaged, and healed with the publication of The 9/11 Commission Report a year ago? What's to be gained, asking unanswered and likely unanswerable questions when even the most dogged and trenchant of investigators has concluded that 9/11 has been successfully mutated into “history,” a scene of desolation fast receding in our collective psyche's rear window?

Conspiracies: How Do You Think We Got Here?

By Rick Foley

I don't get why so many people shut off any conversation about 9/11 with “Don't give me any of that conspiracy theory crap.” Especially Vermonters. We all know that any meeting between two or more public officials that involves a decision or vote on public matters and that hasn't been publicly warned is illegal. If not, then it's in conspiracy territory for sure.

Vermonters have long recognized the potential threat of “conspiracy” to the democratic decision-making process. That's why we run all of our town, school board, and other governmental boards and many of our nonprofit entities according to the state's municipal code. Furthermore, if someone has an issue to be considered for discussion and vote at town meeting, that issue needs be properly or fairly “warned.” You can get an article warned by either soliciting a specified number of voters' signatures or by asking the Select Board to put it on the agenda. The Select Board, like many other governmental and chartered boards, must publicize their meeting times and places, keep written records, including votes, and can only make decisions or do meaningful work when a quorum is present.

Beam It In

By Jacqueline Brook

“Unlike PSYOP, MindWar has nothing to do with deception or even with “selected”—and therefore misleading—truth. Rather, it states a whole truth that, if it does not now exist, will be forced into existence by the will of the United States. . . . Infrasound vibration (up to 20 Hz) can subliminally influence brain activity . . . Infrasound could be used tactically, as ELF waves endure for great distances; and it could be used in conjunction with media broadcasts as well.”

Col. Paul Vallely and Maj. Michael Aquino, PSYOP to MindWar: The Psychology of Victory

Betrayed Once, Shame on Them; Betrayed Twice, Shame on Us

By Rick Foley

My father was at Pearl Harbor. Almost everyone in Struthers, Ohio, back in 1941 knew that. After he retired to Vermont in 1959, Walter only mentioned it once, to the longtime waiter at the Quality Inn, a fellow who was a dead ringer for the young soda jerk in the Norman Rockwell painting hanging behind the cash register—the one of the folks at a diner listening to the radio that fateful Sunday morning. What no one knew was that for 55 years my father wrestled with the terrible knowledge that the attack was not a surprise.

Crossing the Rubicon: An Interview with Michael Ruppert

By Rob Williams

Most people I know have some intuitive sense that the stories told about the way the world works in our culture of daily “news” (and I use the term loosely) are suspect. The real stories about power and the ways power is exercised lie buried beneath the surface. But how deep, to quote The Matrix's Morpheus, does this rabbit hole go?

For those willing to crawl down the hole, U.S. investigative journalism has its own Morpheus, and his name is Michael Ruppert. A UCLA political science honors graduate and former LAPD narcotics investigator, Ruppert is the editor/publisher of From the Wilderness (www.fromthewilderness.com), a monthly newsletter now read by more than 16,000 subscribers in forty countries, including forty Congressmen, both Houses' intelligence committees, and professors at more than thirty universities around the world. He is also author of a new and startling book called Crossing the Rubicon, in which he draws on From the Wilderness's seven years of research to tell a disturbing story about the way the world really works.

The Lessons of 9/11

By Kirkpatrick Sale

What is most striking about the various conspiracy theories that have emerged to explain 9/11 is that so many of them seem plausible. It is hard not to feel that the Bush government could well have been not merely incompetent but actually to some extent complicit—actively or passively—in the hijackings and crashes. There are a great many holes in the official version of things, as is well documented elsewhere in this issue.

Then there are the errors of omission. The failure of the various intelligence agencies to coordinate information on al Qaeda and know its agents were living in this country.

Five Painful Questions about 9/11

By Eric Hufschmid (Author of "Painful Questions: An Analysis Of The September 11th Attack")

1. Did the Towers Collapse Too Quickly?

The official story is that the collapse began when one floor broke, and the pieces fell to the floor below it. Those pieces shattered that floor, and so on, all the way down. However, when the pieces hit the floor below it, they would have slowed down slightly because some of their energy would be used to break the floor. Therefore, there should be a delay every time the pieces hit a floor. The towers had 110 floors, so if it took one second for each floor to be crushed, that would be 110 seconds.

Questioning the 9/11 Commission:
Interview with David Ray Griffin

By James Hogue

On June 24, 2005, I interviewed Dr. David Ray Griffin, emeritus professor of philosophy of religion and theology at the Claremont School of Theology and author of The New Pearl Harbor and The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions. He is the author or editor of more than 25 books, most recently Deep Religious Pluralism. As a latecomer to 9/11 research, and as an academic theologian and scholar, Dr. Griffin's questions and research have had a far-reaching impact on the 9/11 truth movement, to the degree that now only politicians, the main stream media, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the official 9/11 Commission have ignored his work. Dr. Griffin begins with comments on the impact of The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions.