Amazon’s 9/11 series, The Looming Tower, has two fantastic performances at its heart
Plus, new Netflix documentary series Flint Town.
ByTerrorism
Terrorism is the systematic use of violence to create a climate of fear in a population with the aim of disturbing the status quo, overthrowing authorities or attacking a particular group for ideological reasons. Terror has also been used by governments against their people to suppress dissent, for example in Nazi Germany.
Fifteen years on from 9/11, how the UK bypassed justice to become a counter-terrorism state
The sinister story of legislation in Britain following the New York terrorist attacks.
ByA 9/11 reader
Ten of the best articles on the tenth anniversary of the attack.
ByMehdi Hasan on Question Time, Israel and 9/11
An astonishing claim -- even by his standards -- from Richard Perle.
ByWhat is the lasting legacy of 9/11?
Ten years after the twin towers fell, research indicates that it has not had a lasting effect on people's lives.
ByWe will never forget 9/11. But it has not shaped us
What happened was huge, but the neocons have gone, and the Middle East and the west are not engaged
ByWhere were you on 9/11?
It is an event etched into our collective memory. We asked writers, politicians, and activists to remember where they were…
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Ten years after 9/11, the true threat is not a super-villain skulking in the desert, says Laurie Penny
We have been starved of the meaning and context of global disaster.
ByIn this week’s New Statesman: 9/11 Special Issue
Memories of 9/11 | Adam Kirsch: How America changed | Mehdi Hasan: Fear and the terror industry
ByAfter a decade of war, the west is weak and in retreat
Western leaders no longer proclaim their desire to reorder the world.
By9/11 ten years on: what the public think now
45 per cent believe that a terrorist attack is either likely or very likely in the UK in the next…
By9/11 anniversary protests: in pictures
The commemoration was marred by competing protests for and against the proposed Muslim community cen
ByAmerica remembers 9/11 amid souring community relations
When official commemorations are over, rallies will begin both for and against the proposed Islamic
ByClinton condemns 9/11 Quran burning
US secretary of state joins General Petraeus in condemning plans by a small Florida church to burn c
ByBlair: the 9/11 argument
The 2001 attacks "changed everything". Why?
ByKnow your enemy
Terrorism, we know, is not the exclusive preserve or franchise of dark-skinned, bearded Muslims.
ByMarking 9/11
On the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks Obama and McCain came together in a brief susp
ByThe poisonous legacy of 9/11
New Yorkers were told their air was safe to breathe after 9/11. It wasn't. As the city's first toxic
BySuppose a new 9/11 hit America . . .
By Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group and senior fellow at the World Policy Institute
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