Major essay

*Question:

What events and instances do the 9/11 Truth Movement’s participants highlight to justify their arguments that the attacks on New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, DC (as well as others who share their doubts about the official version) were an inside job’, and upon which a cabal within the US elite was able to capitalize to increase its power?

*An excellent piece of work, demonstrating:
superior evaluation and integration of the existing literature;
2.۬ superior conceptualisation and clear evidence of original thought in dealing with the critical issues;
3. the identification of a comprehensive range of concepts and supporting information and the capacity to interrelate and evaluate these concepts.

*Sources:

Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America. Berkeley. University of California Press, 2003.
€¢    Martin Durham, The American Far Right and 9/11′, Terrorism and Political Violence, 15:2 (2003), pp. 96-111.
€¢    National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. New York. W W Norton & Co., 2004, ch. 1
€¢    Dave Thomas, The 9/11 Truth Movement: The Top Conspiracy Theory, A Decade Later’, Skeptical Inquirer, 35:4 (July/August 2011), pp. 33-40.

Essential Reading:
€¢    George Michael, The Enemy of My Enemy: The Alarming Convergence of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right. Lawrence, KS. University of Kansas Press, chs 8&9.
€¢    Kathryn S. Olmsted, Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11. Oxford. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 7.
€¢    National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. New York. W W Norton & Co., 2004, chs. 7-9.

Additional Reading:
€¢    Jamie Bartlett and Carl Miller, A Bestiary of the 9/11 Truth Movement: Notes From the Front Line’, Skeptical Inquirer, 35:4 (July/August 2011), pp. 43-46.
€¢    (e) Matthew Gray, Conspiracy Theories in the Arab World. London. Routledge, 2010, ch. 6.
€¢    Matthew Gray, The Bin Laden Conspiracies: Why Falsehoods Flourish in the Muslim World’, Foreign Affairs, 4 May 2011. Located at: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67827/matthew-gray/the-bin-laden-conspiracy-theories.
€¢    David Ray Griffin, The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions. Northampton, MA. Olive Branch Press, 2005, ch 10.
€¢    David Ray Griffin, 9/11 Contradictions: An Letter to Congress and the Press. Northampton, MA. Olive Branch Press, 2008, Part II.
€¢    David Ray Griffin, The New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover up and the Exposé. Northampton, MA. Olive Branch Press, 2008, ch. 6.
David Ray Griffin, 9/11 Ten Years Later: When State Crimes Against Democracy Succeed. Press. Northampton, MA. Olive Branch Press, 2011, ch. 8.