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style="FONT-SIZE: 22.5pt">9/11: Time for a Second Look</SPAN><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14.5pt">“9/11 conspiracy guru” David Ray Griffin to speak at
Boston University, April 11, 2009 </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'"><BR></SPAN><SPAN
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Rothschild of <I>The Progressive</I> calls David Ray Griffin “the guru of the
9/11 conspiracy movement” and describes his theories about 9/11 as “a
cul-de-sac… [leading] nowhere.” Howard Zinn, Professor Emeritus of Political
Science at Boston University, on the other hand, believes that “David Ray
Griffin's provocative questions about 9/11 deserve to be investigated and
addressed.” No single proponent of alternative theories concerning the events
of September 11, 2001 has received more attention – supportive and critical –
than David Ray Griffin, who will be giving a public lecture at Boston
University’s Morse Auditorium on Saturday, April 11, 2009 at 7pm. Dr.
Griffin’s appearance at Boston University will be his first ever in Boston,
after which he will embark on his second European tour, where he will present
the most thorough, up-to-date and popularly accepted alternative critique of
the 9/11 story to audiences in London, Brussels, Paris, Madrid, Lausanne,
Lucerne, Hamburg, Stockholm, Trondheim, and Oslo. The BU event is co-sponsored
by the Boston University School of Theology and the Boston 9/11 Truth
Committee.<BR><BR>(see video trailer)<BR><U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
title=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb_MzN5DWQc
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb_MzN5DWQc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb_MzN5DWQc</A><BR></SPAN></U><BR>David
Ray Griffin is Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Theology, Emeritus, at
Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University in Claremont,
California, where he remains a co-director of the Center for Process Studies.
<BR> <BR>He has published (as author or editor) 34 books, primarily in
theology, philosophy, and philosophy of religion, with special emphases on the
problem of evil and the relation between science and religion.
<BR> <BR>Seven of his books deal with 9/11: <I>The New Pearl Harbor:
Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11</I> (2004), <I>The
9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions</I> (2005<I>), Christian
Faith and the Truth about 9/11: A Call to Reflection and Action</I> (2006),
<I>9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out</I> (2006, co-edited with
Peter Dale Scott), <I>Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics
and Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory</I> (2007), <I>9/11
Contradictions: An Open Letter to Congress and the Press,</I> and <I>The New
Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Exposé </I>(2008).
<BR> <BR>In 2008 Griffin also made presentations on 9/11 at the
European Parliament and the Japanese Diet. <BR> <BR>In his latest book,
<I>The New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 911, the Cover -Up, and the Expose,</I> Dr.
Griffin once again invokes the tragic events of December 7, 1941, laying out
further evidence for why he believes the attack of September 11, 2001 was an
“inside job” — a false flag attack — that can be traced to the
highest levels of the US government. In defense of his thesis, Griffin:
<BR> <BR><B>–points out</B> the continued failure of the mainstream press
to investigate any of the questions and anomalies which appear to contradict
the official account of 9/11, and claims the media dishonestly uses the term
"conspiracy theory" to prevent criticism of the government’s conspiracy theory
involving 19 “radical” Muslims. <BR> <BR><B>–deconstructs,</B>
using expert testimony, the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s
(NIST) five “crucial claims” about the World Trade Center (WCT) collapses,
showing that NIST, in fact, provides no supporting evidence for any of its
claims. He further points out that NIST and the 911 Commission ignored vast
amounts of relevant evidence for controlled demolition of all three WTC
buildings (WTC 1, 2, 7) that collapsed on 9/11, among which are the sudden,
symmetrical collapses at near-freefall speeds (in the case of WTC7 into its
own building footprint), pools of molten metal under the debris pile for weeks
indicating temperatures considerably higher than jet-fuel and office-materials
fires could possibly generate, and residue of explosives found in WTC dust.
<BR> <BR><B>–presents</B> what he suspects to be motives that high level
government officials had for orchestrating the 9/11 attacks. Griffin contends
that the 9/11 Commission suppressed any mention of these possible motives, as
well as the fact that key members of the Bush Administration were signatories
to the radical plan drawn up in 2000 by the neo-conservative think tank,
Project for the New American Century (PNAC), for increased militarization and
global dominance. The PNAC report suggested the necessity for a “New Pearl
Harbor” event to persuade the American public in favor of its stated goals,
hence, the title of Griffin’s first and latest exposé, <I>The New Pearl Harbor
(Revisited). <BR></I> <BR>Griffin’s 9/11 books have been endorsed
by Michael Chossudovsky, William Sloane Coffin, Harvey Cox, Richard Falk,
Catherine Austin Fitts, David Griscom, Jim Hightower, British MP Michael
Meacher, Mark Crispin Miller, Rosemary Ruether, Marcus Raskin, Paul Craig
Roberts, Peter Dale Scott, Gerry Spence, Lorie Van Auken, Howard Zinn, and
former CIA officials Robert Baer, Bill Christison, and Ray
McGovern.<BR> <BR>Four of these books have been given special
recognition: <I>The New Pearl Harbor and The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions
and Distortion</I> received the 2006 Helios Foundation Award for 2006<I>.
Debunking 9/11 Debunking</I> was a Bronze Medal Winner in the 2008 Independent
Publisher Book Awards<I>. The New Pearl Harbor Revisited </I>was named a “Pick
of the Week” in 2008 by <I>Publishers Weekly.</I><BR> <BR>His essays and
interviews about 9/11 have appeared in such disparate publications as
<I>Zion’s Herald<SUP>1</SUP>, Hustler Magazine<SUP>2</SUP>, Global
Outlook<SUP>3</SUP>, LA Times Magazine<SUP>4</SUP>, Conversations in Religion
and Theology<SUP>5</SUP>, Penthouse Netherlands<SUP>6</SUP>, Whole Earth
Times<SUP>7</SUP>, Tikkun<SUP>8</SUP>, </I>and<I> Le Monde
Diplomatique<SUP>9</SUP>. <BR></I> <BR>Griffin has been featured on “The
Richard & Judy Show” (London)<SUP>10</SUP>, C-Span
(twice)<SUP>11</SUP>, ABC News Radio<SUP>12</SUP>, “Tucker” on
MSNBC<SUP>13</SUP>, CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corporation)<SUP>14</SUP>,
the BBC’s “Heaven and Earth,”<SUP>15</SUP> and in over 400 radio
talk-shows<SUP>16</SUP>, including Democracy Now!<SUP>17</SUP>.
Many videos of his talks and interviews are available on the
Internet<SUP>18</SUP>. <BR> <BR>During the week prior to his
lecture in Boston, Dr. Griffin will also give lectures in Wayne, PA, Vassar
College, Portsmouth and Keene, NH. <BR> <BR> <BR><BR>[1] “9/11: A
Christian Theologian’s Response: Deceptions of Empire and the Anti-Imperial
Gospel of Jesus,” Zion’s Herald, July/August 2005: 5-6, 39-40 (available at
<U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
title=http://www.anthonyflood.com/griffin911xntheologiansresponse.htm
href="http://www.anthonyflood.com/griffin911xntheologiansresponse.htm">http://www.anthonyflood.com/griffin911xntheologiansresponse.htm</A></SPAN></U>
<<U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
title=http://www.anthonyflood.com/griffin911xntheologiansresponse.htm
href="http://www.anthonyflood.com/griffin911xntheologiansresponse.htm">http://www.anthonyflood.com/griffin911xntheologiansresponse.htm</A></SPAN></U>>
). <BR><BR> [2] “What If Everything You Know about 9/11 Is Wrong?”
Interview with Bruce David and Carolyn Sinclair, Hustler Magazine, August,
2005: 32-35, 108 (available at <U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
title=http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20050604140153943
href="http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20050604140153943">http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20050604140153943</A></SPAN></U>
<<U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
title=http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20050604140153943
href="http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20050604140153943">http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20050604140153943</A></SPAN></U>>
[text only] and <U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
title=http://911truth.org/docs/drgHfull.pdf
href="http://911truth.org/docs/drgHfull.pdf">http://911truth.org/docs/drgHfull.pdf</A></SPAN></U>
(with graphics).<BR><BR> [3] “Truth and Politics of 9/11: Omissions and
Distortions of The 9/11 Commission Report,” Global Outlook (<A
title=http://www.globaloutlook.ca/
href="http://www.globaloutlook.ca/">www.GlobalOutlook.ca</A> <<U><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"><A title=http://www.globaloutlook.ca/
href="http://www.globaloutlook.ca/">http://www.GlobalOutlook.ca/</A></SPAN></U>>
), Issue 10 (Spring-Summer 2005), 45-56.<BR><BR> [4] “Getting Agnostic
about 9/11” (an interview conducted by Mark Ehrman), LA Times Magazine, August
28, 2005 (<U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
title=http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-crgriffin35aug28,1,3835884.story?coll=la-headlines-magazine
href="http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-crgriffin35aug28,1,3835884.story?coll=la-headlines-magazine">http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-crgriffin35aug28,1,3835884.story?coll=la-headlines-magazine</A></SPAN></U>
<<U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
title=http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-crgriffin35aug28,1,3835884.story?coll=la-headlines-magazine
href="http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-crgriffin35aug28,1,3835884.story?coll=la-headlines-magazine">http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-crgriffin35aug28,1,3835884.story?coll=la-headlines-magazine</A></SPAN></U>>
).<BR><BR> [5] “Response to Ian Markham” (to Markham’s review of
The New Pearl Harbor), Conversations in Religion and Theology, 3/2 (November,
2005): 220-236.<BR><BR> [6] “Rokende Pistolen Gezocht: De Echte
Daders Achter 9/11” (Interview), Penthouse (Dutch), December, 2006:
088-091.<BR><BR> [7] “9/11 Under Attack: David Ray Griffin: Why the
Official Story Just Doesn’t Make Sense.” Interview by Abigail Lewis. Whole
Life Times, September 2006: 53-54.<BR><BR> [8] “The American Empire
and 9/11,” Tikkun, March-April 2007) (<U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
title=http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/tik0703/frontpage/empire911
href="http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/tik0703/frontpage/empire911">http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/tik0703/frontpage/empire911</A></SPAN></U>
<<U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
title=http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/tik0703/frontpage/empire911
href="http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/tik0703/frontpage/empire911">http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/tik0703/frontpage/empire911</A></SPAN></U>>
).<BR><BR> [9] “The Truly Distracting 9/11 Conspiracy Theory: A
Reply to Alexander Cockburn,” Le Monde Diplomatique Norway, English version,
March 2007 (<U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
title=http://www.lmd.no/index.php?article=1408#fotnoter
href="http://www.lmd.no/index.php?article=1408#fotnoter">http://www.lmd.no/index.php?article=1408#fotnoter</A></SPAN></U>
<<U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
title=http://www.lmd.no/index.php?article=1408#fotnoter
href="http://www.lmd.no/index.php?article=1408#fotnoter">http://www.lmd.no/index.php?article=1408#fotnoter</A></SPAN></U>>
).<BR><BR> [10] June 22, 2004. <BR><BR> [11] (1) “9/11 and the
American Empire: How Should Religious People Respond?”, Lecture at the
University of Wisconsin at Madison, April 18, 2005, broadcast on C-SPAN2
[BookTV], April 30, 2005 (available at <U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
title=http://www.911blogger.com/2005/04/proper-release-of-griffin-in-madison.html)
href="http://www.911blogger.com/2005/04/proper-release-of-griffin-in-madison.html)">http://www.911blogger.com/2005/04/proper-release-of-griffin-in-madison.html)</A></SPAN></U>;
BookTV, C-SPAN 2, November 24 & 25. (2) “9/11 and American Empire:
Intellectuals Speak Out,” September 24, 2006, Berkeley, CA, edited by Peter
Dale Scott and David Ray Griffin. The event featured remarks by Griffin,
Scott, Peter Phillips, Kevin Ryan and Ray McGovern, who served as
host.<BR> <BR>[12] ABC News Radio, September 11, 2005. <BR><BR> [13]
“Tucker,” MSNBC, August 9, 2005 (<U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
title=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxKW3EqbfRE)
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxKW3EqbfRE)">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxKW3EqbfRE)</A></SPAN></U>.
<BR> <BR>[14] < “9/11: Truth, Lies and Conspiracy: Interview: David
Ray Griffin,” CBC News, August 25, 2006 (<U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
title=http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/911griffin.html
href="http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/911griffin.html">http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/911griffin.html</A></SPAN></U>
<<U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
title=http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/911griffin.html
href="http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/911griffin.html">http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/911griffin.html</A></SPAN></U>>
).<BR><BR> [15] “Heaven and Earth,” BBC1, September 10, 2006
(<U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
title=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9181676883393469552
href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9181676883393469552">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9181676883393469552</A></SPAN></U>
<<U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
title=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9181676883393469552
href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9181676883393469552">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9181676883393469552</A></SPAN></U>>
). <BR><BR> [16] For some of these, see <U><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"><A
title=http://www.radiodujour.com/guests/griffin_david_ray/index.html
href="http://www.radiodujour.com/guests/griffin_david_ray/index.html">http://www.radiodujour.com/guests/griffin_david_ray/index.html</A></SPAN></U>
<<U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
title=http://www.radiodujour.com/guests/griffin_david_ray/index.html
href="http://www.radiodujour.com/guests/griffin_david_ray/index.html">http://www.radiodujour.com/guests/griffin_david_ray/index.html</A></SPAN></U>>
. <BR><BR> [17] “The New Pearl Harbor: A Debate On A New Book That
Alleges The Bush Administration Was Behind The 9/11 Attacks,” Democracy Now!
May 26, 2004 (<U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
title=http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/26/150221
href="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/26/150221">http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/26/150221</A></SPAN></U>
<<U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
title=http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/26/150221
href="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/26/150221">http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/26/150221</A></SPAN></U>>
). Wednesday, May 26th.<BR><BR> [18] See <U><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"><A
title=http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=david+ray+griffin&num=10&so=0&start=30
href="http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=david+ray+griffin&num=10&so=0&start=30">http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=david+ray+griffin&num=10&so=0&start=30</A></SPAN></U>
<<U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
title=http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=david+ray+griffin&num=10&so=0&start=30
href="http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=david+ray+griffin&num=10&so=0&start=30">http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=david+ray+griffin&num=10&so=0&start=30</A></SPAN></U>>
.<BR><BR> [19] Independent Publishers (<U><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"><A
title="http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=1157&urltitle=Announcing 2007 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results"
href="http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=1157&urltitle=Announcing%202007%20Independent%20Publisher%20Book%20Awards%20Results">http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=1157&urltitle=Announcing%202007%20Independent%20Publisher%20Book%20Awards%20Results</A></SPAN></U>
<<U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
title="http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=1157&urltitle=Announcing 2007 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results"
href="http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=1157&urltitle=Announcing%202007%20Independent%20Publisher%20Book%20Awards%20Results">http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=1157&urltitle=Announcing%202007%20Independent%20Publisher%20Book%20Awards%20Results</A></SPAN></U>>
). <BR><BR> [20] Publishers Weekly, November 24, 2008 (<U><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"><A
title=http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6617001.html?industryid=47159
href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6617001.html?industryid=47159">http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6617001.html?industryid=47159</A></SPAN></U>
<<U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
title=http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6617001.html?industryid=47159
href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6617001.html?industryid=47159">http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6617001.html?industryid=47159</A></SPAN></U>>
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