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Blowback: An Alternative Reader on the US Attacks

The corporate media in the US, in the Philippines and elsewhere have been highlighting the basic facts of the September 11 attacks in the United States as well as the Bush administration’s reactions toward these. But in the cacophony of condemnation and calls for revenge, hardly anybody from the mainstream press is asking the most crucial question of all: What has the United States done to deserve this carnage? Bulatlat.com decided to search for answers to this simple question and found -- mainly from the alternative media -- perspectives that the public should reflect upon. We also included a couple of articles that provide context to US foreign policy.

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People pause at a memorial at a fire station housing Engine 54 - Ladder 4 - Battalion 9 in New York September 14, 2001. Fifteen of the firefighters from this station are missing after the collapse of the World Trade Center's twin towers on September 11. REUTERS/Peter Jones

On the US Attacks
by Noam Chomsky

The Awesome Cruelty
of a Doomed People
By Robert Fisk

Hunt, Not Witchhunt, For Terrorists
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Unexcusable, but Also
Unexplainable Acts of Terror?
By Andrew Kennis

Inevitable Ring to the Unimaginable
By John Pilger

“America Under Attack":
Guilty Or Not, Here We Come
By Danny Schechter

Blowback!
By Jeff Sommers

The collapsed remains of the World Trade Center building continues to burn in lower Manhattan, September 14, 2001. Several other nearby buildings tottered on unstable foundations, posing a new threat to the thousands of exhausted rescue workers. (Mike Segar/Reuters)

A Time for Peace, Not Retaliation
By Elijah Wald

‘Let Us Seek an End to Militarism’
By the War Resisters League

Wanted: Enemy to Justify US’s $344-Billion War Budget
By Ben Cohen

List of U.S. Covert Actions Against Other Countries (1946 to 1984)

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