Sometimes not much is going on in the world of 9/11 truth.* People take vacations. People self-quarantine because of the new coronavirus. The two major parties’ presidential nominating conventions attract so much attention that any news 9/11 truthers* might have might best be held for when more people would pay attention. (This third thing assumes that people are like me and like to see undisguised partisan hoopla, which may be less likely these days.)

Well, this blog did direct readers to some 9/11 truth news on Aug. 13, HERE, and yesterday, HERE. Both installments concerned a British family looking for justice in the murder of a 31-year-old brother and son at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, and looking for some funding for the not-cheap effort.

But true 9/11 truthers share some principles that are exhibited in the analysis and writing of people who are more obviously truthers in general as well as good reporters and good investigators and good analyzers and good writers. And in times of lulls in 9/11 truth news, it may help to read them. Two of them are—age before beauty—Ray McGovern and Caitlin Johnstone. Just this afternoon I came across “Catapulting Russian-Meddling Propaganda”** by the former and “On Covid-19 and Authoritarian Abuses” by the latter.

— Mark Channing Miller

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* The terms 9/11 truth and 9/11 truther may seem to imply that 9/11 truth is unrelated to all sorts of other truths not generally acknowledged or even known, and that 9/11 truthers are people unconcerned with a host of other matters in the world. Not so. Nine-eleven truth includes certain laws of physics ignored by the concocters of the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) team’s explanation accepted by the 9/11 Commission for the collapses of the World Trade Center buildings on Sept. 11, 2001. Call it “government science.” The mainstream media are fine with it. More on this another day. A lot of people are 9/11 truthers but aren’t active in the 9/11 truth “movement” (such as it is) because they don’t want to drop out on other concerns important to them. Ray McGovern and Caitlin Johnstone are two among many in this category.

** McGovern’s piece came via email from Consortium News, kind of an antidote for the some of the shortcomings of the mainstream media.