.... © 2011 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2011 Historical Reflections The FBI and the Making of the Terrorist Threat Ivan Greenberg When the administration of George W. Bush proclaimed a war on terror after the 9/11 attacks, the Federal Bureau of Investigation...

..., reveals the idea that the terrorist attacks of 2001 always made for, on some level, an exciting event. This essay ponders our attraction to the aesthetics of violence. It details the ways that Cloverfield drains 9/11 of any significance other than its potential to yield pleasurable images of carnage. ©...

...Bob Batchelor In Terrorist (2006) and Falling Man (2007), John Updike and Don DeLillo present two contrasting yet equally compelling visions of the post-9/11 United States. Based on a close textual analysis of the novels and additional primary and secondary research, this article examines the role...

...Sonia Baelo-Allué The 9/11 terrorist attack on the United States has become one of the most represented disasters in history since it produced an unprecedented visual impact on those around the world who watched the second plane crash into the South Tower live on television. In an atmosphere...

... apartheid itself, instead focused their efforts on demonizing and delegitimizing the ANC as terrorists and agents of the Soviet Union—but this failed to significantly damage the reputation of the ANC or weaken the call for boycotts. This article is based on extensive new archival research from sources...

...” or what anyone does is at all political, much less merely political. Glamorama is about models and terrorists— about models-slash-terrorists. The acts of destruction its model/terrorists perform are unlinked to any particular political program, while...

.... The more remarkable fact was, however, that during those four years with no single terrorism case, American libraries catalogued, according to the OCLC WorldCat Database, 1322 new book titles under the rubric “terrorism” and 121 under “terrorist...

..., frame, and interpret the “unspeakable” horrors of 9/11. Some commentators even blamed Hollywood for the events, because its movies had prefigured, even “inspired” the terrorist perpetrators. Thus, in the period after 9/11, Hollywood steered clear of the subject of terrorism and focused instead...

... is imminent. As that document put it, the United States “must be prepared to stop rogue states and their terrorist cli- ents before they are able to threaten or use weapons of mass destruction against the United States and our allies and friends.”1...

.... At once symbolic and secretive, terrorist plots cried out for explanatory narratives, and Clymer illustrates how, in the absence of concrete knowledge, the most byzantine conspiracy theories often carried the day. Anarchists blamed a nefarious scheme by industrialists to discredit labor, while...

...Kim Phillips-Fein The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States . New York: Norton, 2004. MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2007 (RE)VIEWS The 9/11 Commission Report Kim Phillips-Fein The 9/11...

... should we think about the different spatial and temporal registers in which a highly localized terrorism—a terrorism that many described as the last Maoist guerrilla war—comes face-to-face with a new international terrorist “network”—which some believe has...

... used in an instrumental, Manichaean sense; in the last decades, the terrorist has been defined by political enmity and otherness. In the days following 9/11, George Bush’s and Dick Cheney’s statements concerning “the battle of Good versus Evil...

..., as the British government tried to curtail civil liberties and workers’ rights through legislative action, the HSRA decided to conduct a terrorist act on the legislature. On April 8, as the president of the legislature announced that the bills against civil action had...

... of the civilizing mission. Furthermore, Maran, citing Roger Trinquier, notes that “torture is the particular bane of the terrorist,”4 remarking that the “rational equivalency” plays out as follows: “As the terrorist resorts to extremes of violence that cause grievous...

... to represent the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC), the physical location itself, the experience of untold suffering, as well as the absence of the twin towers, the people, and the corpses to bury. We can learn some- thing about this term before...

... It is both a profound truth and a common cliché that the terrorist attacks of Sep- tember 11, 2001, had great historical impact, traumatizing masses of people in the United States and beyond. Astounding in their audacity and in their success, these attacks literally brought down two of the largest...

... on the bourgeoisie wherever they are!” Chinese and Japanese anar- cho-terrorists, for example, were directly inspired by Russian heroes, while veterans of the European underground ended up planting bombs or doing bank jobs in the New World. American anarchists, in turn...