World Trade Centre (WTC)

In Terror and Hope

October 2, 2001 – 7:57 pm

Guy Rundle

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What Hope for Years to Come?

October 2, 2001 – 7:53 pm

Geoff Sharp: In the wake of the terrorist attacks in the United States, the tension between religious piety and imperial power reveals the urgent need for re-examination of the new social forms

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The Terrorist Syndrome

October 2, 2001 – 7:49 pm

Paul James: Mainstream Western responses to global violence involve disturbing reassertions of nationalistic parochialism.

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Will Democracy Come to the USA?

October 2, 2001 – 7:48 pm

Simon Cooper: Political dissent, so-called un-Americanism and the erosion of civil liberties in the US

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In Terror and Hope

What Hope for Years to Come?

The Terrorist Syndrome

Will Democracy Come to the USA?