Archive for September 11th, 2006
“if you want an audience, start a fight”
Disneyland visitors were greeted by a blow up doll dressed up as a Guantanamo Bay inmate wearing a bright orange jumper and black hood at the Rocky Mountain Railroad ride. The piece stayed up for an hour and half before staff shut down the ride to remove it. The culprit? None other than the enigmatic [...]
whadda they know
Truth Out today posted an Agence France Presse round-up of international newspaper editorials. There are no big surprises but the general disgust on the part of editors around the world toward the Bush response to the attacks in the last five years is sobering.
Papers in Europe and the Middle East were the most brutal– which [...]
conspiracy theories…
As America remembers 9/11 five years later (as if we’d forget only five years later) with memorial services and explotation movies and TV specials(World Trade Center, United 93, ABC’s “The Path to 9/11,” etc.), let’s not forget the conspiracy theories we love to google so much.
I’m no conspiracy theorist, and no, I haven’t sat down [...]
9/11: the disney version
September 11, like all commemorative days, is an event during which our collective memory is actively shaped. And this year Disney owned ABC is vying for significant influence over how 9/11 is remembered. Last night and tonight ABC stations nationwide are broadcasting “The Path to 9/11” a two-part miniseries described by Salon’s editor-in-chief Joan [...]
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