9/11

ANT/CJ 3535
A course at Appalachian State University
(Fall 2007)

The following presentations and web pages, developed by Dr. Matthew Robinson and Dr. Greg Reck, deal with what the 9/11 Commission and 9/11 Congressional Inquiry reported and what other investigations into 9/11 have revealed.  They also explore the concept of "blowback" and reactions to 9/11, both domestically and internationally.

9/11 LINKS

CLASS NOTES ...

PART ONE: 9/11

Week 1                        Student quiz on 9/11 facts

                                    Introduction to the course, syllabus review, and role of a liberal arts education

Sources of mass media information and misinformation (web site -- html format)

Media consolidation in the United States (MS Word document -- doc format)

An introduction to the 9/11 Commission and 9/11 Congressional Inquiry (slideshow -- PowerPoint format)

Related document:
Facts of the 9/11 Commission and the Official Story of What Happened (web site -- html format)

                                    ** Recommended out of class film: Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism

 


Week 2                        The Official Story According to the 9/11 Commission and 9/11 Congressional Inquiry: What Happened, Who Did It, and How Did They Do It? (slideshow -- PowerPoint format)


Related document:
The Official Story of How They Got Here and Why They Did It (web site -- html format)

 


Week 3                        The Official Story, Part II – What Senator Bob Graham and independent researcher Paul Thompson add (slideshow -- PowerPoint format)



Related documents:
White House and US Intelligence Agency Failures Prior to 9/11 (web site -- html format)
Failures on 9/11 (web site -- html format)
Warnings Prior to 9/11 About Airplanes Being Used as Weapons (web site -- html format)
Other Warnings (including about World Trade Center and Pentagon) (web site -- html format)
Claims by the Bush Administration Regarding Warnings (web site -- html format)

 

Week 4                        The Official Story, Part II – What Senator Bob Graham and independent researcher Paul Thompson add (continued) (slideshow -- PowerPoint format)


Related documents:
Saudi Connections to 9/11 (slideshow -- PowerPoint format)
Who Really Did It (web site -- html format)
Why They Really Did It (web site -- html format)

                                    Film:  9/11: Press for Truth (part I)

                                    ** Recommended out of class film: Loose Change (the third edition, Final Cut, is expect out in 2007; the second edition is out now and can be viewed online)

 

PART TWO: The Contexts of 9/11

 

Week 5                        9/11 as “Blowback” (MS Word document -- doc format)

U.S. Foreign Policy during the Cold War and radical Islam (MS Word document -- doc format)

                        Film: In Whose Interest?


                                    ** Recommended out of class film: Rush to War

 

Week 6                        U.S. Foreign Policy (continued)

                        Film: Palestine is Still the Problem

                                   


Week 7                        The Greater Middle East

                        Guest speaker: Dr. Curt Ryan

 

Week 8                        Midterm (and then continuing on …)

 

Week 9                        Globalization, resistance, and the new empire of capital (MS Word document -- doc format)


                                     Film: New Rulers of the World

                                    ** Recommended out of class film: Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers

 

Week 10                      The Neo-Cons (MS Word document -- doc format)
            The Neo-Cons (a timeline) (MS Word document -- doc format)

                       

 

PART THREE: Domestic and International Responses to 9/11

 

Week 11                      U.S. response to 9/11, Part I: The USA Patriot Act (slideshow -- PowerPoint format), executive orders, domestic spying, Homeland Security (slideshow -- PowerPoint format)

Related documents:
The USA PATRIOT Act (Adobe document -- PDF format)
President Bush's executive order to declare and detain enemy combatants, and the US Surpeme Court (html format)
Other domestic reactions to 9/11 (web site -- html format)

Related Links:

Domestic spying:
Legal experts respond to President Bush's domestic spying program (web site -- html format)
Legal experts respond to President Bush's domestic spying program again (Adobe document -- PDF format)
Myths and facts about warrantless spying by the National Security Agency (web site -- html format)
Domestic spying information page (web site -- html format)
Evidence of domestic spying on peace groups in the United States (web site -- html format)
"Tracked in America" (web site -- html format)

Military Commissions:
President Bush signs Military Commission Act  (web site -- html format)
Facts of the Military Commission Act  (web site -- html format)
ACLU letter re: Military Commission Act  (web site -- html format)


** Recommended out of class film: Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties

 

Week 12                      U.S. response to 9/11, Part II: Media propaganda and the fixing of intelligence

                                    ** Recommended out of class films: Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & The Selling of American Empire AND Uncovered: The
Whole Truth about the Iraq War

 

Week 13                      Afghanistan

                                    Film:  9/11: Press for Truth (Part II)

 

Week 14                      Iraq – U.S. military victory

                                    Film:  Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (excerpts)

                                    ** Recommended out of class film: Control Room

 

Week 15                      Iraq – the Insurgency and Civil War


                                    Film: The Blood of My Brother


Class notes: Iraq (MS Word document -- doc format)
 

Week 16                      The sorrows of empire

The future


































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: Evidence Consistent with and Inconsistent with the Official Story (Powerpoint format)

Related documents:
Evidence Consistent with and Inconsistent with the Official Story (longer version with more depth, Powerpoint format)

Problems with the Official Story: Things That Don't Fit (html format)


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The Empire Strikes Back (MS Word format)

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Costs of the war on terror (MS Word format)


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Sorrows of empire (MS Word format)


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9/11: 30 Lessons Learned (MS Word format)