Tag: 9-11
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Humanity In A Moment Of Desperation
Salon What They Went Through by Garrison Keillor It was painful to hear the woman in anguish on the 83rd floor of the World Trade Center, crying, “I’m going to die, aren’t I? I’m going to die.” Melissa Doi was 32, beautiful, with laughing eyes and black hair. She was lying on the floor of […]
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The Haditha Massacre, Media and Patterns of Warfare
With the massacre of Haditha already drawing comparisons to the My Lai massacre — where up to 500 unarmed Vietnamese men, women and children were killed in cold blood by American forces — proponents of this war are holding fast against this incident becoming the tipping point of complete anti-war sentiment. Local blogger, Joe Guarino: […]
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United 93: My Nightmares Suffice, Thank You Very Much
Associated Press Theater Pulls Trailer for ‘United 93’ NEW YORK – A New York City movie theater has pulled the trailer for “United 93,” which chronicles in real time the hijacked United Airlines flight that crashed into a Western Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11. The AMC Loews Lincoln Square 12 theater in Manhattan said it […]
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The Message: Score Another One For Netflix
I’ve had the Koran sitting on my bookshelve for the past ten years; I have no idea how The Message has alluded me until this past weekend. While the historical accuracy of the film and its brilliant acting took center stage, there were explicit elements of both the production and storyline I found especially intriguing. […]
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“…One Nation, Under God, Indivisible, With Liberty And Justice For All”
America, can we put down our Coors Light and X-Boxes for a moment? Thanks. Now let’s dig back into our collective Cowboys and Indians past and pretend that every injustice in American history didn’t occur. That’s right, every atrocity from the Vietnam War to the destruction of the Native American population never happened; no Tuskegee […]
You Are Standing In An Open Field 