Source: Ted Rall Since 9/11, We’ve Embraced Our Inner Coward by Ted Rall December 31, 2009 NEW YORK — Home of the free and the brave. Live free or die. Shoot first; ask questions later. Kill ‘em all, let God sort ‘em out. These were the mottos of a brash, impetuous, audacious-to-a-fault nation. That nation is dead. Once we Americas did [...]

The Extraordinary Achievements of Ordinary People by Rebecca Solnit September 10, 2009 Eight years ago, 2,600 people lost their lives in Manhattan, and then several million people lost their story. The al-Qaeda attack on the Twin Towers did not defeat New Yorkers. It destroyed the buildings, contaminated the region, killed thousands, and disrupted the global economy, but it [...]