By author David Ray Griffin (book & bio details below). Goes to 9AM PDT. Watch live. Weekend schedule. More below, including the LA Times Festival of Books panel schedules — the list of panelists will knock your socks off:
Griffin’s book and bio details below this section:
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Also: On Saturday, April 30 at 8:00 pm and Sunday, May 1 at 1:00 am, CSPAN2 covers the 2005 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. “From the campus of UCLA, highlights from the 10th annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Each year the festival features nearly 400 authors and nearly 100 panel discussions, book signings, and other author events around campus. The festival is hosted by the Los Angeles Times.”
Look at this list of speakers! I hope it rains all weekend:
Saturday, April 30
8:00pm ET/5:00pm PT (re-air 1am Sun ET/10pm Sat PT)
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Panel: On The Front Lines: Covering War
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- Mark Bowden, “Road Work: Among Tyrants, Heroes, Rogues, and Beasts”
- Chris Hedges, “War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning”
- Terry McDermott, “Perfect Soldiers: The Hijackers – Who They Were, Why They Did It”
- Moderator, Marjorie Miller, Los Angeles Times Foreign Editor
9:00pm ET/6:00 pm PT (re-air 2am Sun ET/11pm Sat PT)
Panel: Interrogation or Torture: Human Rights After 9/11
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- Max Boot, “The American Empire in the Middle East”
- Angelo Codevilla, “Informing Statecraft: Intelligence for a New Century”
- Mark Danner, “Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror”
- Robert Scheer, “The Five Unanswered Questions about 9/11”
- Moderator: Steve Wasserman, Los Angeles Times Book Review Editor
10pm ET/7:00 pm ET (re-air 3am Sun ET/Midnight PT)
Panel: Lies, Deceit, & Cover-ups
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- Eric Alterman, “When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences”
- John Dean, “Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush”
- Maureen Dowd, “Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk”
- Michael Shermer, “Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown”
- Jon Wiener, “Historians in Trouble: Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower”
- Moderator: Larry Beinhart, “The Librarian: A Novel” & “Wag the Dog”
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Open & Opening Interview
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7:00 pm ET/4:00 pm PT (re-air at 10pm ET/7pm PT)
Panel: Brave New World: Monopoly, Media, & The Right To Know
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- Arianna Huffington, “Fanatics & Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America”
- Ken Auletta, “Backstory: Inside the Business of News”
- Hugh Hewitt, “Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation That’s Changing Your World”
- Geoffrey Stone, “Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism
- Moderator: David Shaw, Los Angeles Times Columnist
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Call-ins & Interviews
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Call-ins & Interviews
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8:00 pm ET/5:00 pm PT (re-air at 11pm ET/8pm PT)
Panel: Are We Making The World Safe For Democracy?
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- Amy Goodman, “The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them”
- Sergio Ramirez, “Hat Full of Tigers: Reflections on Art, Culture and Politics”
- David Rieff, “At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention”
- Charles Kesler, ed. “Saving the Revolution: The Federalist Papers and the American Founding”
- Moderator: Matthew Miller, “The Two Percent Solution: Fixing America’s Problems in Ways Liberals and Conservatives Can Love”
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On Saturday, April 30 at 10:30 am
The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions
David Ray Griffin
Description: David Ray Griffin takes a critical look at the official 9/11 Commission Report put out by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. Professor Griffin argues that the “omissions and distortions” in the report amount to a cover-up by government officials and says that the available evidence suggests that the Bush administration was complicit in the 9/11 attacks (either by ignoring known threats or through actual participation in the planning of the attacks). Professor Griffin asks a series of questions which he says have been either inadequately answered or completely ignored by the commission. These include questions surrounding the attack on the Pentagon, the way in which the World Trade Center towers collapsed, and the behavior of President Bush and his Secret Service detail following notification that a second plane had hit the WTC. The talk was hosted by the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth (www.mujca.com) and took place at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Includes Q&A.
Author Bio: David Ray Griffin is professor emeritus at the Claremont School of Theology, where he taught for over 30 years (retiring in 2004). He has authored or edited over two dozen books, including “God and Religion in the Postmodern World,” “Religion and Scientific Naturalism,” and “The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11.”
Publisher: Olive Branch Press 46 Crosby Street Northampton, MA 01060
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“Bush administration was complicit in the 9/11 attacks (either by ignoring known threats […]”
I have trouble believing they were complicit. I think they were incompetent and indifferent but I can’t believe in the willing sacrifice of thousands of American and other national lives.
Presenting the 9/11 Commission as a whitewash of that incompetence, that I believe.
Bush et al. were warned by Clinton’s outgoing administration. Richard Clarke did all he could to speak up.
I tend to agree with you that it was incompetence.
Although, I can’t help but think how MUCH 9/11 did for the neocons’ grand plans … and, perhaps, their maniacal scheming kept them from thinking of terrorist threats as bad, but perhaps as good .. any means to reach an end goal.
Watch for these two.
Mark Danner covered the election in Iraq on the ground.
Chris Hedges is a former photojournalist.
Hedges is unforgettable once you’ve heard him. I saw him on Charlie Rose a few years back … a war correspondent who admitted he became addicted to the high of war, and a student of theology. Remarkable.
Danner, I don’t know much about. Tell me.
Here’s a Daily Kos link to my diary on his report.
Or go directly to Tom’s Dispatch.
Danner’s report begins:
“Just past dawn on January 30, Iraq’s Election Day — the fourth of the US occupation’s “turning points,” after the fall of Baghdad, the capture of Saddam Hussein, and the “handover of sovereignty” — I stood at the muddy gates of Muthana Air Base outside Baghdad watching the sun rise, pink and full, into a white-streaked sky; then, feeling a sudden tremor beneath my feet, I started abruptly: the explosion was loud and, judging by the vibrations, not far off.
I turned to the US Army captain who had been waiting with me next to Muthana’s inner watchtower, and saw his lazy smile. He had been watching me. “
Good reading!
The real issue is whether the pilots were trained by us at military air bases.
There has been a cover up, there is no doubt of that. The question is whether that cover-up was done to protect covert programs, or whether it was done for more nefarious reasons.
Also, it is quite possible for a operation like 9/11 to have been orchestated by ex-intelligence officers, or with the connivance of just a few moles.
It is the failure of the commission to even attempt to answer the most glaring questions that lends the most credence to conspiracy theorists.
Bush and Cheney together. (And Bush got re-elected?!)
Bush refused to testify under oath and to testify alone. They testify, err, have a conversation off the record, no notes taken, no recording devices and this is acceptable? Investigating this historic moment in US history and it was off the record.
When Clinton gave testimony about an afternoon daliance, he was alone. It was televised and broadcast to the world.
How much were they covering up that made them so afraid that their stories would not match?
I don’t know… if you put an Osama diatribe about America next to one by Falwell or Dobson or Robertson, you’d be hard pressed to guess who wrote which without a byline.
does the war in Iraq convince you of the willing sacrifice of thousands of americans and other natoinals?
But American civilians on American soil, how could they?
It will not take too much to convince me, but I’m not there yet.
Boo, he just mentioned Sibel Edmonds!