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The IRD's Attack on My ''Silly'' 9/11 Theories

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58 Veterans for 9/11 Truth (http://v911t.org).

59 "The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 40 Years Later," National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 132, ed. by John Prados, August 4, 2004 (http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB132/index.htm); Gareth Porter, "Robert McNamara Deceived LBJ on Gulf of Tonkin, Documents Show," Raw Story, July 8, 2009 (http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/08/robert-mcnamara-deceived-lbj-on-gulf-of-tonkin/).

60 Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States (1980; New York: HarperPerennial, 1990), 150. Richard Van Alstyne, The Rising American Empire (1960; New York, Norton, 1974), 143.

61 See, for example, Steven Kinzer, Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq (New York: Times Books [Henry Holt], 2006).

62 On the possible relationship of the neoconservative movement to 9/11, see David Ray Griffin, "Neocon Imperialism, 9/11, and the Attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq," Information Clearing House, February 27, 2007 (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17194.htm), which is a slightly revised version of Chap. 6 of my Christian Faith and the Truth behind 9/11.

63 See David Ray Griffin, Reenchantment without Supernaturalism: A Process Philosophy of Religion (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001), Chap. 4, "Naturalistic, Dipolar Theism." For an older treatment, see John B. Cobb, Jr., and David Ray Griffin, Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1976), Chap. 3, "God as Creative-Responsive Love" (for which I was the primary author).

64 See Griffin, Christian Faith and the Truth behind 9/11, at 112-16.

65 See Chapter 1, "America's Non-Accidental, Non-Benign Empire," in David Ray Griffin, John B. Cobb, Jr., Richard Falk, and Catherine Keller, The American Empire and the Commonwealth of God: A Political, Economic, Religious Statement (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006).

66 See Max Boot, "The Case for American Empire," Weekly Standard, October 15, 2001; "American Imperialism? No Need to Run Away from Label," USA Today, May 6, 2003 (http://www.cfr.org/publication.html?id=5934); Charles Krauthammer, "Universal Dominion: Toward a Unipolar World," National Interest, 18 (Winter 1989: 47-49; "The Unipolar Moment," Foreign Affairs 70, Winter 1990 (http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19910201faessay6067/charles-krauthammer/the-unipolar-moment.html); "Bless Our Pax Americana," Washington Post, March 22, 1991.

67 See Chap. 6, "Global Empire or Global Democracy: The Present Choice," in Griffin et al., The American Empire and the Commonwealth of God.

68 See David Ray Griffin and the Rev. George F. Regas, "9/11, American Empire, and Christian Faith," lectures delivered at Trinity Episcopal Church, Santa Barbara, California, March 25, 2006 (DVD available at KenJenkins@aol.com).

69 "David Ray Griffin's April/May 2010 Speaking Tour Itinerary" (http://www.ts911t.org/DavidRayGriffinAprilMay2010TourInfo).

70 See Frederick Clarkson, "The Battle for the Mainline Churches," The Public Eye, Spring 2006 (http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v20n1/clarkson_battle.html); Jim Naughton, "Following the Money," Episcopal Diocese of Washington (http://www.edow.org/follow/part1.html). Jeff Walton is the director of IRD's Anglican Action Program (http://www.theird.org/Page.aspx?pid=1411).

71 See Bruce Wilson, "Shadow War: Methodism Under Attack," Talk to Action, February 21, 2006 (http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/2/21/123844/326).

72 Naughton, "Following the Money"; The Rev. Chuck Currie, "Update: The Institute on Religion and Democracy Funded By Far Right Political Groups," October 17, 2004 (http://chuckcurrie.blogs.com/chuck_currie/2004/10/update_the_inst.html); Andrew Weaver, "Story of a Hostile Takeover Bid of Churches" (review of Stephen Swecker, Hard Ball on Holy Ground), Amazon.com, June 8, 2005 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0971114625/ref=cm_aya_asin.title/103-6324946-0681413?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155).

73 Quoted in Sydney E. Mead, "Church History Explained," Church History, 32/1 (March 1963), 17-31.

Cross-posted at 911Truth.org

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