The Columbus Institute of Contemporary Journalism (CICJ) has operated Freepress.org since 2000 and ColumbusFreepress.com was started initially as a separate project to highlight the print newspaper and local content.
ColumbusFreepress.com has been operating as a project of the CICJ for many years and so the sites are now being merged so all content on ColumbusFreepress.com now lives on Freepress.org
The Columbus Freepress is a non-profit funded by donations we need your support to help keep local journalism that isn't afraid to speak truth to power alive.
Whether one views the 9/11 "terrorist" attacks as blow
back, a wake-up call, or an unjustified outrage, they
have deeply affected the American psyche and our
attitudes toward war, the future, and the world. As a
historian trying to understand this phenomenon, I tend
to view the government's behavior, before and after
9/11, in the context of its leaders' past actions.
Before 9/11, Bush's inner circle of neoconservative
advisors proclaimed the need for a dramatic expansion
of U.S. military might entailing "full spectrum
dominance" over all other nations and regions
(including outer space), long term petro-resource
control with permanent Middle East bases, and a
preemptive First Strike policy against recalcitrant
states. In September 2000, however, the neocon's
flagship think tank, the Project for a New America
Century, warned that this "process of transformation,
even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be
a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing
event - like a new Pearl Harbor."
After 9/11, this administration systematically nurtured
the fear of further homeland attacks to justify its own
assaults on constitutional rights as well as social and
environmental programs that protected "the people" but
fettered corporate power and control.
David Ray Griffin's book "The New Pearl Harbor --
Disturbing Questions About The Bush Administration and
9/11" asks "Were these tragedies simply the result of
unprecedented failures and incompetence as the
government maintains, or were there elements of
foreknowledge and implicit welcome involved?" He
attempts to answer this question, reviewing the facts,
studying other possible interpretations of these facts,
and observing the breakdown of the official story over
time.
Griffin's status as a renowned theologian and his
systematic approach to the documented evidence lend
this work unique importance and authority. Although
still shunned by the mainstream media, his book has
already encouraged many thousands to debate the case
for possible government complicity and at the very
least to demand a full, transparent and truly
independent public inquiry.
Democracy requires citizen vigilance, informed debate
and official accountability. In that spirit, David Ray
Griffin's book deserves to be widely read.
