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> Given Tuesday's horrific and historic events, AlterNet's Headlines

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> terrorist attacks.

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> of articles to provoke thoughtful debate and healing, rather than

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> AFTER 9-11, WE ALL HAVE NEW BATTLES TO FIGHT

> Geov Parrish, AlterNet

> The political left has an enormous amount of work to do -- right

> now, today, immediately -- to prevent our government from making

> a bad situation much, much worse.

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> BUSH, THE CIA AND THE ROOTS OF TERRORISM

> , AlterNet

> Let's mourn and grieve, but let's also examine our own

> contribution to our unsafe world -- be it lax airport security

> or the CIA training the terrorists who attack us.

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> HUNT, NOT WITCHHUNT, FOR TERRORISTS

> Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet

> President Bush and the media's finger pointing at the Islamic

> world has stirred fresh tremors that a new wave of Arab-

> American bashing could be in the making.

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> HIDING IN BROOKLYN: AFGHAN AMERICAN FEARS FOR SAFETY

> Fariba Nawa, Pacific News Service

> An Afghan-American writer living in Brooklyn wonders what

> might happen when officers sent to prevent a racial backlash

> against Arabs leave her neighborhood.

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> A TIME FOR PEACE, NOT RETALIATION

> Elijah Wald, TomPaine.com

> If there is one lesson in today's World Trade Center tragedy, it

> is that tougher security measures will not prevent future terrorist

> acts. Only peaceful policies will.

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> UNDERSTANDING OSAMA BIN LADEN

> O. Beeman, Pacific News Service

> The media is pointing fingers at Osama bin Laden, but the

> causes of his anger are rarely discussed. Here is why he and

> his followers hate the U.S. so violently.

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> GROUND ZERO AT THE PENTAGON

> Vest, AlterNet

> Joe Vallone, the U.S. Army's environmental technology chief,

> crossed the threshold of his office in Corridor 5 of the

> Pentagon's D ring a few minutes shy of 8 Monday morning...

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> THE BASTARDS!

> Alisa , Village Voice

> " Arms, legs. Parts of people. They were falling on my head, "

> said one worker at the World Trade Center. An eyewitness

> account of the violence.

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> WILL SEPTEMBER 11 CHANGE EVERYTHING? OUR READERS RESPOND

> While the news media pumps out coverage of the attacks in

> New York and DC, AlterNet readers are speculating about our

> nation's future. Should we expect war? Domestic lockdown? What?

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> ** REPORT OF THE WEEK: U.S. Policy Toward Political Islam

> Zunes, Foreign Policy in Focus

> Washington has used the threat of Islamic fundamentalism as a

> justification for keeping a high military, economic and political

> profile in the Middle East. Yet it has often supported Muslim

> hardliners when they were perceived to enhance U.S. interests.

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> BUSH'S DEAL WITH THE TALIBAN

> Scheer, LA Times

> The Bush administration became the main sponsor of the Taliban

> when it rewarded the regime with $43 million. All the Taliban had

> to do was declare that opium growing is against the will of God.

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> " AMERICA UNDER ATTACK " : GUILTY OR NOT, HERE WE COME

> Danny Schechter, MediaChannel.org

> Most Americans spent September 11 glued to their television

> sets, trying to understand. But amid the grim footage and

> " expert " interviews, many of the most pressing questions were

> never addressed.

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> A MESSAGE FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH

> Saskia Sassen, Guardian of London

> We may think that the debt and growing poverty in the south

> have nothing to do with the violence in New York and Washington.

> But they do.

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> HOW DURBAN SUCCEEDED

> Dani McClain, AlterNet

> Despite pessimistic coverage of the World Conference Against

> Racism, something very meaningful took place. Namely, the

> coming together of human rights activists from all over the world.

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> THE PERVERSE SUBSIDIES OF FOSSIL FUELS

> Norman Myers and Kent, TomPaine

> Our indirect subsidies of fossil fuels -- about $200 billion a

> year -- costs us dearly in many ways, including degraded health,

> a polluted environment, and lost agricultural yield.

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> GARCIA: REVENGE WOULD EXPOSE U.S. VULNERABILITY

> E. , PoliticoMagazine.com

> U.S. revenge on those responsible for Tuesday's tragedy will

> only widen the country's wounds and fuel hatred for America.

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