Remembering 9/11 across the web
At the time that two buildings in the New York Financial District fell, there were no forms of communication known as Twitter, Facebook and even MySpace. Most found out about the attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a likely attack on Washington, D.C. through television and radio. Ten years later, the jubilant … Read more
We killed the face of globalization
Osama bin Laden was the undoubted face of terrorism. His work in organizing the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, U.S. embassy bombings and the September 11 attacks have made him the Muhammad Ali of terrorism. But he was also the face of globalization. Ever since the dissolution of the Cold War, bin Laden became a preeminent … Read more
