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Commentary

Sep 26

• The history of Stockmarkets after crises (PDF)
• The Village Voice: Working-Class Heroes by Tom Robbins
• Longterm solution lies in understanding Muslims
• Retaliation: It's not a war on terrorism - Robert Fisk
• Battle of ideas must also be won - Paul Kelly

• What If Things Get Worse?
• Wargame exposed gaping hole in Pentagon strategy
• Memo world: try saying sorry to avoid a sorry end
• Let's hear the truth, not lies - Bob Ellis
• Consequences of strike could be severe
• As Thick as the Ash, Myths are Swirling
• The Afghan rebel whose warnings the US ignored

• US reaps what they sow and have plenty to be ashamed of
• Tariq Ali: Former US policies allowed Taliban to thrive
• Military option has its dangers
• What to Fight for - Washington Post editorial
• Victory over terrorism must come ultimately from within
• Tariq Ali: Former US policies allowed Taliban to thrive
• The war that Bush cannot win - New Statesman
• The Ultimate Enemy - William Safire
• Suppressing Dissent At Home, Fighting for Freedom Abroad?
• Seeing the Unimaginable Freezes the Imagination
• Networks Move to Revive Foreign News
• Leading America Beyond Fear - Bob Herbert
• Indifference to needs is fertilising this evil - Robert Manne
• Even Vietnam War protesters think the President is right
• Mark Tedeschi: Eerie echoes of the start of World War I
• At last, Bush has assumed the mantle of a leader

• It's Not a Time for Party, but for How Long?
• How to catch an elusive terrorist - Clarence Page

• 'To Thine Own Self Be True' - Anthony Lewis
• Where is the debate?
• War of 'democracy v evil'
• Tony Parkinson comment
• Ron Brownstein comment
• Object of envy and execration
• Normal programming resumed shortly
• How terrorism shattered first world illusions
• Bush walks a fine line with a gun in his hands
• Afghans find bin Laden too hot to handle

• World's fate depends on US - The Age
• Sense, sensibilities and plain stupidity
• Anatole Kaletsky: Only thing to fear is fear itself
• Tamin Ansary: Bomb us back to the Stone Age?
  • Listen to Ansary read his article
• Blaming the victim is an outrage

• Eye on the inferno
• Extremists lose the perceptual war - Errol Simper
• What the world needs now is defiant laughter
• US rule book now out of date
• The roots of hatred - The Economist
• The battle ahead - The Economist
• Step back from the brink
• Sounds of silence in the Big Apple
• Kirill Nourzhanov: Russia has felt the pain, too
• Most of us pray to the same god
• Just who are we shooting at, Mr President?
• Islam a home of tolerance not fanaticism
• Hyper-reality, hypocrisy, hype and horror - why terrorists do what they do
• Enemies within, enemies without
• Michael O'Connor: Base response on justice, not revenge
• Allies in search of a strategy

• World's fate hangs on US
• World in need of reform: Keating
• America's war on terrorism fraught with danger
• George Megalogenis: Turning point for capitalism
• The Solitary Vote Of Barbara Lee
• Taking on the Taliban: a pushover for a superpower?
• Bush: 'We're at war' - Newsweek
• Liberty at Risk - John Conyers
• Kevin McDonald: Led astray in despair of a common humanity
• Ignorant prejudice creates a mood of hate
• Battle cry rings out in the polls
• Attacks Shift Balance of Power, Alliances Among Interest Groups
• A peaceful way forward beyond the prejudices of religion
• An Unvarnished President on Display
• America's war on terrorism fraught with danger
• Lessons in Terror at University
• Fighting what may become endless war - Clarence Page

• The New Republic: When conspiracy theories become unholy theology
• United against terror we stand; fighting each other we fall
• The death of trust and openness
• Angela Shanahan: A nation still proud to have God on its side
• Senator John McCain’s appearance on NBC's 'The Tonight Show' with Jay Leno

• Why the US engenders such love-hate
• Hossein Esmaeili: Punishing bin Laden won't stop extremists
• Naomi Klein
• Henry Kissinger: Moderation is no option
• Simon Longstaff: Don't let terrorists recruit us to their cause
• At last the world sees what Israel has long fought
• A pool frolic, then the terror

• What happens when rage turns to hate? - Clarence Page
• The Simile
• The Faces Emerge - NYT
• Richard Butler: The day the world changed forever
• David Maraniss: September 11, 2001
• The Guardian: Seek justice, not war
• Picture this forever haunted
• Paul Krugman: Paying the Price
• The Attack Took More Than the Victims’ Lives. It Took Their Deaths
• In for the Long Haul - NYT
• How we cope with the unthinkable
• Fighting an Elusive Enemy
• Extraordinary Newspapering
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan: Ethnicity Now
• A Black Cloud. A Shower of Glass. A Glimpse of Hell. Run!
• At 9am I thought my life was over
• At 8:48, Two 'Normal Guys' Are Transformed
• Anger scalds the innocent
• America must ask itself why

• The clash of civilisations
• Suicidal fanatics now have a global reach
• Rage level is going to be intense
• Now It's Over Here
• New York the unimaginable
• William Raspberry: Worse to Come
• US's financial fate hinges on resolve of the people
• Defeat terrorists and their sponsors
• Anthony Lewis: Beware Unintended Results
• A way of life we call our own assailed
• Richard Cohen: Anatomy Of a Failure

• The Weak at War With the Strong
• Thomas Friedman: Smoking or Non-Smoking?
• Paul Krugman: After the Horror

• Anthony Lewis: World War III
• Why the towers must rise again
• Where was the Federal Government?
• Watch Rudy for wartime leadership
• Greg Sheridan: US should now take careful aim
• U.S. Resolve: Unshattered - LA Times
• Text of President Bush's comments
• Henry Kissinger: Terror network must be destroyed
• Sen. Charles Schumer: Strike back, but not in a blind way
• School bus carrying Muslim children stoned
• A President Faces the Test Of a Lifetime - Newsweek
• America Under Attack - Nando Times
• Mayor says 3700 missing
• Bob Herbert: 'It Wasn't a Dream'
• William Safire: Inside the Bunker
• Echoes of Rome in an empire that must, eventually, pass away
• A tragic silence in Washington

• This time it's not a movie - Clarence Page
• We are fighting a new kind of war
• New York Post: War Comes To America
• New York Times: An Unfathomable Attack
• Chicago Tribune: The vulnerabilities we cherish
• San Francisco Chronicle: September 11, 2001
• Philadelphia Inquirer: Let us pray and let us unite
• Boston Globe: A war comes home
• Miami Herald: An aggrieved nation mourns
• The Dallas Morning News: America the resilient
• Washington Times: America at war
• Anthony Lewis: A Different World
• USA Today: A day that changes America's view of terror