{"id":118678,"date":"2018-09-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=118678"},"modified":"2018-09-16T12:32:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T11:32:42","slug":"the-fakest-fake-news-the-u-s-governments-9-11-conspiracy-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/09\/the-fakest-fake-news-the-u-s-governments-9-11-conspiracy-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fakest Fake News: The U.S. Government\u2019s 9\/11 Conspiracy Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Review of 9\/11 Unmasked: An International Review Panel Investigation <\/em>by David Ray Griffin and Elizabeth Woodworth<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

15 Sep 2018 – <\/em>If you want to fathom today\u2019s world, absolutely nothing is more important than to understand the truth about the attacks of September 11, 2001. This is the definitive book on the subject.<\/p>\n

For seventeen years we have been subjected to an onslaught of U.S. government and corporate media propaganda about 9\/11 that has been used to support the \u201cwar on terror\u201d that has resulted in millions of deaths around the world.\u00a0 It has been used as a pretext to attack nations throughout the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa.\u00a0 It has led to a great increase in Islamophobia since Muslims were accused of being responsible for the attacks.\u00a0 It has led to a crackdown on civil liberties in the United States, the exponential growth of a vast and costly national security apparatus, the spreading of fear and anxiety on a great scale, and a state of permanent war that is pushing the world toward a nuclear confrontation.\u00a0 And much, much more.<\/p>\n

The authors of this essential book, David Ray Griffin and Elizabeth Woodworth, and all their colleagues who have contributed to this volume, have long been at the front lines trying to wake people up to the real news about 9\/11.\u00a0 They have battled against three U.S. presidents, a vast propaganda machine \u201cstrangely\u201d allied with well-known leftists, and a corporate mass media intent on serving deep-state interests, all of whom have used illogic, lies, and pseudo-science to conceal the terrible truth.\u00a0 Yet despite the establishment\u2019s disinformation and deceptions, very many people have come to suspect that the official story of the September 11, 2001 attacks is not true.<\/p>\n

With the publication of 9\/11Unmasked: An International Review Panel Investigation<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>they now have a brilliant source book to use to turn their suspicions into certitudes.\u00a0 And for those who have never doubted the official account (or accounts would be more accurate), reading this book should shock them into reality, because it is not based on speculation, but on carefully documented and corroborated facts, exacting logic, and the scientific method.<\/p>\n

The book is based on the establishment in 2011 of a scientific review project comprising 23 experts with a broad spectrum of expertise, including people from the fields of chemistry, structural engineering, physics, aeronautical engineering, airline crash investigation, piloting, etc. Their job was to apply systematic and disciplined analyses to the verifiable evidence about the 9\/11 attacks.\u00a0 They used a model called the Delphi Method as a way to achieve best-evidence consensus.\u00a0 This best-evidence consensus model is used in science and medicine, and the 9\/11 Consensus Panel used it to examine the key claims of the official account(s).\u00a0 Each \u201cOfficial Account\u201d was reviewed and compared to \u201cThe Best Evidence\u201d to reach conclusions.\u00a0 The authors explain it thus:<\/p>\n

The examination of each claim received three rounds of review and feedback.\u00a0 According to the panel\u2019s investigative model, members submitted their votes to the two of us moderators while remaining blind to one another.\u00a0 Proposed points had to receive a vote of at least 85 percent to be accepted\u2026This model carries so much authority in medicine that medical consensus statements derived from it are often reported in the news.\u00a0 They represent the highest standard of medical research and practice and may result in malpractice lawsuits if not followed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This research process went on for many years, with the findings reported in this book.\u00a0 The Consensus 9\/11 Panel provides evidence against the official claims in nine categories:<\/p>\n

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  1. The Destruction of the Twin Towers<\/li>\n
  2. The Destruction of WTC 7<\/li>\n
  3. The Attack on the Pentagon<\/li>\n
  4. The 9\/11 Flights<\/li>\n
  5. US Military Exercises on and before 9\/11<\/li>\n
  6. Claims about Military and Political Leaders<\/li>\n
  7. Osama bin Laden and the Hijackers<\/li>\n
  8. Phone Calls from the 9\/11 Flights<\/li>\n
  9. Insider Trading<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Each category is introduced and then broken down into sub-sections called points, which are examined in turn.\u00a0 For example, the destruction of the Twin Towers has points that include, \u201cThe Claim That No One Reported Explosions in the Twin Towers,\u201d \u201cThe Claim That the Twin Towers Were Destroyed by Airplane Impacts, Jet Fuel, and Fire,\u201d \u201cThe Claim That There Were Widespread Infernos in the South Tower,\u201d etc.\u00a0 Each point is introduced with background, the official account is presented, then the best evidence, followed by a conclusion.\u00a0 Within the nine categories there are 51 points examined, each meticulously documented through quotations, references, etc., all connected to 875 endnotes that the reader can follow.\u00a0 It is scrupulously laid out and logical, and the reader can follow it sequentially or pick out an aspect that particularly interests them.<\/p>\n

    The 9\/11 Consensus Panel members describe their goal and purpose as follows:<\/p>\n

    The purpose of the 9\/11 Consensus Panel is to provide the world with a clear statement, based on expert independent opinion, of some of the best evidence opposing the official narrative about 9\/11.<\/p>\n

    The goal of the Consensus Panel is to provide a ready source of evidence-based research to any investigation that may be undertaken by the public, the media, academia, or any other investigative body or institution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    As a sociologist who teaches research methods and does much research, I find the Consensus Panel\u2019s method exemplary and their findings accurate. They have unmasked a monstrous lie. \u00a0It is so ironic that such serious scholars, who question and research 9\/11, have been portrayed as irrational and ignorant \u201cconspiracy theorists\u201d by people whose thinking is magical, illogical, and pseudo-scientific in the extreme.<\/p>\n

    A review is no place to go into all the details of this book, but I will give a few examples of the acumen of the Panel\u2019s findings.<\/p>\n

    As a grandson of a Deputy Chief of the New York Fire Department (343 firefighters died on 9\/11), I find it particularly despicable that the government agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), that was charged with investigating the collapse of the Towers and Building 7, would claim that no one gave evidence of explosions in the Twin Towers, when it is documented by the fastidious researcher Graeme MacQueen, a member of The 9\/11 Consensus Panel, that over 100 firefighters who were at the scene reported hearing explosions in the towers.\u00a0 One may follow endnote 22 to MacQueen\u2019s research and his sources that are indisputable.\u00a0 There are recordings.<\/p>\n

    On a connected note, the official account claims that there were widespread infernos in the South Tower that prevented firefighters from ascending to the 78th<\/sup> floor.\u00a0 Such a claim would support the notion that the building could have collapsed as a result of fires caused by the plane crashing into the building.\u00a0 But as 9\/11<\/em> Unmasked <\/em>makes clear, radio tapes of firefighters ascending to the 78th<\/sup> floor and saying this was not so, prove that \u201cthere is incontrovertible evidence that the firefighter teams were communicating clearly with one another as they ascended WTC\u201d and that there were no infernos to stop them, as they are recorded saying.\u00a0 They professionally went about their jobs trying to save people.<\/p>\n

    Then the South Tower collapsed and so many died.\u00a0 But it couldn\u2019t have collapsed from \u201cinfernos\u201d that didn\u2019t exist.\u00a0 Only explosives could have brought it down.<\/p>\n

    A reader can thus pick up this book, check out that section, and use common sense and elementary logic to reach the same conclusion.\u00a0 And by reaching that conclusion and going no further in the book, the entire official story of 9\/11 falls apart.<\/p>\n

    Or one can delve further, let\u2019s say by dipping into the official claim that a domestic airline attack on the Pentagon was not expected.\u00a0 Opening to page 78, the reader can learn that \u201cNBC\u2019s Pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski was warned of the Pentagon attack by an intelligence officer,\u201d who specified the illogical spot where the attack would happen shortly before it did.\u00a0 In Miklaszewski\u2019s words, \u201cAnd then he got very close to me, and, almost silent for a few seconds, he leaned in and said, \u2018This attack was so well coordinated that if I were you, I would stay off the E Ring \u2013 where our NBC office was \u2013 the outer ring of the Pentagon for the rest of the day, because we\u2019re next.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 The authors say correctly, \u201cThe intelligence officer\u2019s apparent foreknowledge was unaccountably specific.\u201d\u00a0 For if a terrorist were going to fly a plane into Pentagon, the most likely spot would be to dive into the roof where many people might be killed, including top brass and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld. \u00a0To make an impossibly acrobatic maneuver to fly low into an outside wall would make no sense.\u00a0 And for the government to claim that this impossible maneuver was executed by the alleged hijacker Hani Hanjour, a man who according to documentation couldn\u2019t even pilot a small plane, is absurd.\u00a0 But the intelligence officer knew what would happen, and the reader can learn this, and marvel.<\/p>\n

    Or the reader can start from the beginning and read straight through the book.\u00a0 They will learn in detail that the official version of the attacks of 9\/11 is fake news at its worst.\u00a0 It is a story told for dunces.<\/p>\n

    Griffin and Woodworth and their colleagues simply and clearly in the most logical manner show that the emperor has no clothes, not even a mask.<\/p>\n

    Since knowing the truth about the attacks of September 11, 2001 is indispensable for understanding what is happening in today\u2019s world, everyone should purchase and read Unmasking 9\/11: An International Review Panel Investigation<\/em>.\u00a0 Keep it next to your dictionary, and when you read or hear the latest propaganda about the 9\/11 attacks, take it out and consult the work of the real experts.\u00a0 Their words will clarify your mind.<\/p>\n

    It is the definitive book on the defining event of the 21st<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n

    __________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/a><\/em>Edward Curtin is a writer whose work has appeared widely. He is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a> and teaches sociology at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. His website is <\/em>http:\/\/edwardcurtin.com\/<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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