Sunday, 11 September 2011

A Decade After 9/11: We Are What We Loathe

A Decade After 9/11: We Are What We Loathe By Chris HedgesI arrived in Times Square around 9:30 on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. A large crowd was transfixed by the huge Jumbotron screens. Billows of smoke could be seen on the screens above us, pouring out of the two World Trade towers. Two planes, I was told by people in the crowd, had plowed into the towers. I walked quickly into the New York Times newsroom at 229 W. 43rd St., grabbed a handful...