20:42
SERVANDO GONZALEZ: A SAD DAY FOR FIDEL CASTRO?
Tuesday, September 11, 2001, was a very sad day for Fidel Castro. In his book about the 1989 events culminating with the death by firing squad of Gen. Arnaldo Ochoa and Col. Antonio de la Guardia, Cuban writer Norberto Fuentes, at some time very close to the highest levels of the Castro government, mentions an old dream of Fidel Castro: to be the first to drop bombs in the U.S. territory More detail...

20:32
ANDREI KRUSHINSKI: SOME OF CHINESE JOURNALISTS APPLAUDED TERROR FOOTAGE
A group of Chinese journalists have been expelled from the USA. The cause of their expulsion is that some of them reacted approvingly to television footage of terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. This news was circulated today by the "Hong Kong Imail" Internet site with the reference to the France Press news agency. More detail...

20:26
PAKISTAN’S DOUBLE STANDARDS
There are at least 12 training camps of extremist Muslim groups on the territory of Kashmir which is under Pakistan’s control (borders on the state of North India Jammu and Kashmir) More detail...

19:55
SWEDEN'S PREMIER: DO NOT DIVIDE EUROPE INTO EAST, WEST
Expansion of the European Union and drawing of Russia into European cooperation supplies an historical chance for no longer dividing Europe into East and West. This was said on Tuesday by Goran Persson, Prime Minister of Sweden, at the first after a summer recess session of the Swedish parliament, Riksdag. He was presenting the cabinet's policy for the upcoming political year. More detail...

19:43
IRINA MALENKO: THIS IS A WILD WILD WILD WORLD. OR HYPOCRITICAL SORROW
Ireland is the only country in Europe which considered 3 minutes of silence to be not a good tribute to the victims of the terror attack in the USA and the Irish government announced that day to be a day-off for the entire population of the country More detail...

19:00
SENSATION: RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH BLESSES BOMBARDMENTS
“From the Christian point of view, Americans have religious reasons for a retaliatory strike,” Metropolitan Cyrill, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Department of the Moscow Patriarchy told journalists today at a news conference here in Moscow. More detail...

16:18
USA IN FEAR OF NEW ACTS OF TERRORISM. MUSLIM WORLD NEGATIVE TOWARDS FORTHCOMING MILITARY ACTION AGAINST AFGHANISTAN
This was said by the US Attorney General John Ashcroft to CNN channel. In his words, the special services of the country received the information about the new acts of terrorism which are possibly being prepared currently against the US More detail...

14:51
ATTACK ON GUDERMES REPELLED. 15 MILITANTS ANNIHILATED
The attack on Gudermes has been repulsed. It must be remembered that yesterday a big group of well armed militants invaded into the city. Information agencies reported that the second biggest city in the republic had been occupied by militants. Now the situation in Gudermes is being controlled by the Federal Forces. More detail...

14:07
TALIBS DECLARED JIHAD TO USA
Leaders of the Taliban which controls the biggest part of Afghanistan have appealed Afghans for getting ready for jihad – sacred war against the US, Talibs’ information agency Bahtar reported today. “All around Afghanistan the Taliban’s leaders are addressing to people: remain together and get ready for jihad against American aggressor”, the agency reported. More detail...

13:32
OUR READER NIKOLAY: US WANTS TO USE THE ATTACK ON WTC TO WIPE OUT ALL ISLAMIC COUNTRIES, WHERE OIL IS LOCATED AND TAKE TOTAL CONTROL OVER IT
Nikolay is a former Russian Navy Special Forces Commando (now he is US citizen, has been living in the USA 11 for years) I have not been to Afganistan in 1979, but my friends were, and one of them will never come home again. (well, thanks to Russian army general Gromov, cause what he was doing is - using infantry to disarm infantry mines, More detail...

13:00
ANTI-CANCER VACCINE INVENTED BY RUSSIAN SCIENTIST
Vet scientist from Maritime region Vassili Britov has taken out Russian patent N 2172182 which officially confirms the vaccine educed by him to be an effective mean against cancer. Patents for “Britov’s vaccine” are being registered now in 130 countries. More detail...

12:30
KAREN DE COSTER: WAR DEMENTIA
The United States has been attacked. For the first time since 1865 we've had American casualties of war on American soil. Who can deny this is an act of war, or that punishment of the guilty is essential? However, I maintain that there are two sets of dementia at work here in all the post-terrorism patter: the confused warmongering due to denial of causation, and demands for instant military escalation; and the general complacency toward the eradication of liberty. More detail...

12:18
OUR READER ZALE SCHAFER: BEFORE THE TOWERS FELL. POEM
Before the Towers fell, We lived ours lives in a peaceful, protected place. Or so we thought. We worked at our jobs. We came home to our families. Visit Letters to the Editor

12:11
CHECHEN PRINT IN TERROR ACTS IN THE USA
A sensational piece of news arrived from Chechnya through information agencies’ channels: after some operative research actions in Curchaloi region of Chechnya, in Tsotsin-Yurt village that is situated 10 km to south-east from Argun, some materials were found directly concerning the terrorist acts in the US. More detail...

11:40
JOHN ASHTEAD: “IT’S WAR!” BUT NOW WHAT?
As George Bush declares war on an invisible and as yet unknown enemy, the scope for military action reveals itself to be limited. More detail...

11:31
TIMOFEI BYELO: GLOBAL TERROR, GLOBAL DEATH
The scale of the WTC terrorist attacks is much more a world tragedy than solely one belonging to the USA. That is why Colin Powell is looking to 100 countries to form a grand alliance against evil. More detail...

11:05
MIDDLE ASIA INVOLVING RUSSIA IN NEW “AFGHAN TRAP”
Participants of the possible military operation against the Afghan Taliban are being identified. Tajikistan has declared its readiness to offer its territory for the disposal of US troops, missile complexes, and aviation. Then, Uzbekistan declared its readiness to cooperate with the US. Uzbekistan’s foreign minister Abdulaziz Kamilov said: “We are ready to discuss every possible form of cooperation in this field.” More detail...

11:04
SHOWDOWN TIME
The dice are launched, the game begins. On one side, the forces of reason, on the other, Al Qaeda. The possibility of a vast conflict being avoided is open and the danger of a generalised war being started is a real fact. More detail...

11:01
TIMOTHY BANCROFT-HINCHEY: GLOBALISATION OF TERRORISM
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on 11th September, the notion appears that this is the first symptom of the more drastic, but inevitable, consequences of globalisation. More detail...

10:00
JUSTIN RAIMONDO: THE THIRD WORLD WAR
Headlines scream: this means war! The President, the Congress, the newspaper editorialists, and the laptop bombardiers all agree. But what kind of a war? What they have in mind is not Vietnam, Korea, or Kosovo -- what they're about to launch is something along the lines of the last world war. More detail...

20:28
SERGEI BORISOV: AMERICANS BUILT THE NEW WORLD ORDER AND GOT LOST IN IT
The USA are preparing an action in respond to the last week’s terror attack. It seems that America does not really think what it can lead to. Few people are able to notice the paradox of the current situation: the USA have been waging war in the Balkans for a really long time. The States were fighting against the Christians on Moslems’ side More detail...

19:46
EMMANUEL GOLDSTEIN: THE WORLD TRADE CENTER AND "JUST WAR"
It is a crime crying out to heaven for vengeance. The living hell suffered by the office workers in the World Trade Centre and the passengers and crew of the four planes was horrific, and those who did it -- and who celebrated it -- were barbaric. More detail...

19:18
JAMES OSTROWSKI: THE AMERICAN CENTURY ENDS WITH A BANG
On the last day of the American Century and the first day of the 21st century, I was about to give a summation to the jury in a case alleging discrimination against Arab-American deli owners by the City of Buffalo and its Police Department. When the news came, the courthouse closed and I drove back to my office. More detail...

18:42
JAMES POULOS: WHY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION WANTS WAR
In the midst of the hysterical war mongering of the US government and a state-controlled media that knows no shame, it is more than ever necessary to retain not only one’s composure, but also one’s ability to think, analyze, and reason. It is surely appropriate to mourn the terrible loss of life on September 11. But sympathy for the victims, their families and friends should not blind anyone to the fact that powerful sections of the US ruling elite view this tragedy as a welcome opportunity to implement a militaristic agenda that has been in the works for more than a decade. More detail...

18:39
TERRORIST ATTACKS IN U.S.A. ON CHECHEN REBELS’ CONSCIENCE? SPECIFICALLY, FIELD COMMANDER “ABDURAKHMAN THE LITTLE” MAY HAVE BEEN INVOLVED
Such a conclusion can be drawn from a report the Russian Federal Security Service’s report. The Boeing-737 airliner technical description and manual for pilots have been found with Chechen terrorists More detail...

18:16
AFGHANISTAN: REFUGEES AND READINESS TO INVADE IN PAKISTAN
The statements from the US authorities about the forthcoming attack on the Taliban seemed to play the role of the accelerator. The events are developing along their own way now threatening to turn to the military actions without any bombing. Afghanistan is concentrating the troops on the frontier with Pakistan More detail...

18:04
PAKISTAN STARTS CONSULTATIONS WITH CHINA, SAUDI ARABIA, UAE. IT IS LINKED WITH PLANNED OPERATION AGAINST AFGHANISTAN. TALIBAN GIVEN 72H
Pakistan starts consultations with China, Saudi Arabia, UAE. It is linked with planned operation against Afghanistan. Taliban given 72h Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar is planning to visit China, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates shortly to hold consultations in connection with the latest developments in the region. Abdul Sattar may fly to China as soon as today. More detail...

17:12
CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE OR TREASON. COMMENTARY ON A NY TIMES ARTICLE BY JARED ISRAEL
So there you have it - either criminal negligence, including Mr. Bush who reads about goats while his countrymen are slaughtered, or treason. Mr. Bush has called for bringing those responsible to justice. Let us begin at home. More detail...

17:09
ANDREI KRUSHINSKY: POLITICAL DIALOGUE BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH KOREAS TO BE CONTINUED
It seems that the acts of terrorism in the US and the growing hatred towards “the cast-away-countries” which followed the attack did not exert any significant influence on the scheduled development of the dialogue between two Koreas More detail...

16:12
CHECHNYA SITUATION EXACERBATED: GUERRILLAS STORM SECOND LARGEST CITY
Hostilities in Russia’s troubled republic of Chechnya has again entered an active phase. At this hour, a confirmation has come from independent sources: a large, well-armed rebel group has attacked Gudermes, the second largest city. A battle is in progress in the city. More detail...