Last summer Ian Johnston and MTK did a weekly column on the KPFK Evening News dedicated to 9/11 related issues. It took place every Tuesday night and lasted between 5 minutes and 8 minutes in length: The 9/11 Column. And culminated in a one-hour show on 9/11/2003 dedicated to covert US actions of terrorist nature around the world and questions about 9/11/2001.
We interviewed:
Mike Ruppert on put options and Buzzy Krongard
Michel Chossodovsky on ISI of Pakistan and connections to 9/11
Ralph Shoenmann of WBAI's Taking Aim on 5 of the nineteen pilots being trained in US and Gul Hamid's interview with UPI [which Larry Bensky and Ian Masters dismissed as crazy because it was conducted by Arnaud de Borchgrave - cf. Pacifica Archives aircheck of talk radio show hosted by MTK in LA on March 26 of this year]
Mary Schiavo on FAA v. NORAD re: scrambling of jets and evidence of a gun on board one of the hijacked planes
Don Paul saying a plane didn't hit the Pentagon.
and others.
Look, like a lot of people, I witnessed the burn and collapse of the towers from nearby North Brooklyn along the East River and was in NYC by 1:00 in the afternoon that day.
Like a lot of people, I have collected reams of text about what happened.
I have presented this text and much multi-media performance and analysis through an art project called "even the birds were on fire" via the agency of a non-profit book-arts organization I helped found in New York in 1998 called Booklyn [www.booklyn.org] a group of artists with whom I witnessed 9/11/2001 and with whom I collected the poetry and prosody of New York's streets at that time. I also did hours of performance in New York's streets, subways and parks at that time in an attempt at cultural exchange.
I witnessed the ugliest New York I have ever seen from behind my beard in the streets there, then.
I have consumed many many websites and theories including close inspection of:
Stranger than Fiction whatreallyhappened.com's timeline the Achilles Project re: cel phone usage at altitude and speed of flights the "Snake" Plissen/Operation Pearl theories and "Flight of the Bumbleplanes" model the collapse theories all of the 9/11 video at Memory Hole, including that of the object beneath the plane and the flash of yellow in the German TV doc and the ABC television full frontal in slow-mo.
I have contemplated the death of Shah Massoud of the Northern Alliance and the collapse of WTC7 and the data regarding discrepancies between government line and what happened at Pentagon, WTC and Shanksville, PA.
I am not shell-shocked, conspiratorial or "freaked out". I am a radio host and Pacifica journalist.
>From day one I felt the whole thing should have been treated as a crime:
with a slow, public investigation like any homicide staff would conduct. I
said so in the first days and agreed with Hertzberg when he said so in Talk
of the Town in the black-covered 9/22 issue of The New Yorker. [but Bush's
"right" successfully directed everyone's attention to Susan Sontag's 250
word riff in that issue]. I argued from day one that we need a measured
approach to this to peel back the layers of those involved.
If anyone would like to participate in the presentation of 9/11-related material done sensitively, professionally and with persistence - at any station and at any time - please consider my skill set at your disposal. I am trained to carry the burden and willing to expose myself as sympatetic to thse asking questions and not accepting the Bush lies.
I would be willing to at least repeat the column this summer if there is interest. As a witness and a concerned citizen ... I think it imperative we continue to hammer at the numbed-out, fear-filled populace to consider motive, means and capability and revisit the details of that morning's events - if for no other reason than posterity.
regards Amy's performance with Griffin and Berlet ... well, this is a personal and professional space for New Yorkers who were there then and I would say it is going to take a long time for everybody to be able to see everything clearly. But I wonder if George Soros has an opinion on this and if maybe now I don't know what it is.
That's partly why I moved to LA on December 24 of 2001 - I didn't want to be trapped as a bearded Asian [whom Ashcroft and Meuller described to a "t" this afternoon in a live nationwide press conference as the enemy] in that perspective.
for what it's worth mtk