http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2006/04/real-men-stand-up-to-fascists.html

The fascists' view of masculinity is that -- to be a real American man -- you have to rally around the "strong leader", you have to talk tough about the "war on terror", you have to get pleasure out of watching "our team" (the sole superpower) beat the stuffing out of a bunch of third-rate armies like Iraq and Afghanistan.

Are they right? Well, psychologists tell us that rallying around the authoritarian leader is actually a very infantile way to affirm one's masculinity.

Okay, listen up guys. Real men don't bluster like George W. Bush or Bill O'Reilly. Real men stand up to fascists.

Our forefathers stood up to the British king and fought for our freedom. Our forefathers stood up to tyrants and won their liberty and freedom.

Fear Factor – A Woodshop Productions documentary

September 18, 2007 – This short documentary produced by Woodshop Productions and narrated by Bryan Sacks discusses the research of Muckraker Report contributing writer, Maher Osseiran regarding the videotape of Osama bin Laden that was released by the federal government on December 13, 2001. The documentary also addresses the effort of the Muckraker Report, through the use of Freedom of Information Act requests, to obtain any documentation from the government that demonstrates the chain of custody of the video from the time it was obtained, through the authenticity process (if any), until such time that it was released to the media.

Posted by Ed Haas on The Muckraker Report on September 18, 2007.

Thank you Michele. - Jon

Open Letter

My name is Michele Little, sister of Fallen Firefighter FDNY, David M. Weiss of Rescue 1, Midtown Manhattan.

I met Jon Gold in Chandler, AZ at the 9/11 Accountability Conference in February 2007 where I was an invited to speak as a family member. Jon and I became fast friends and we speak on a consistent basis.

Jon is known by many family members as a compassionate man who stands by our side for truth and justice. Through the 9/11 Truth Movement, he speaks out sharing his knowledge for truth and justice with anyone who is ready to wake up to facts that are pivotal to being an American.

To hear anything to the contrary as many people heard through Webster Tarpley’s words and finger pointing in New York City the weekend before September the 11th Memorial was unimaginable and unexpected.

Jon is a good man with good intentions and should be honored for his kindness, thoughtfulness and outspokenness on behalf of the 9/11 Family Members, Survivors and 9/11 Responders.

What's remarkably ironic about this belated attack on 9/11 skeptics is that it trots out the well rehearsed argument that 9/11 skeptics "are unwittingly performing as the unpaid minions of the administration’s propaganda wing," while simultaneously it sounds so similar to all other attacks on 9/11 skepticism that one might be convinced they originate with the same propaganda source. It is people such as Rushkoff who sound like servants of Empire, not us.

CONSPIRACIES OF DUNCES
by Douglas Rushkoff
(from Arthur No. 26)

I have to admit that I do this with some trepidation. I can already feel the assault on my inbox. But after a good long think about potential time and energy being lost by our entire community to senseless and ultimately inconsequential musings, I have to come out and say it: the alternative theories about 9-11 are wrong. Worse, the endless theorizing and speculation about trajectories, explosives, military tests, fake airplane parts and remote control navigation actually distracts some of our best potential activists from addressing the more substantive matters at hand.