On Monday, July 20, 2009 we caught up with Richard Gage, AIA, founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, on the final day of his visit to Washington, D.C. We followed Gage and several members of his group as they went to the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg to try to meet with Shyam Sunder, lead investigator for the World Trade Center disaster and to the American Institute of Architects headquarters in D.C. to try to meet with Marvin Malecha, FAIA, 2009 President of the AIA. Gage called Sunder from the NIST security checkpoint, but he refused to meet with him, so Gage left a letter detailing problems with the official NIST investigations of the collapses of the three skyscrapers on Sept. 11, 2001. Malecha was out of town, but had earlier refused to meet with Gage. Jay Stephens, AIA's general counsel, met with the group, agreed to watch one of their DVDs and to deliver a letter to Malecha. The final stop was the White House where Gage and David Slesinger laid a AE911Truth banner on the sidewalk and addressed the tourists gathered there. Gage got into a heated debate with a man who identified himself as Kevin, a "reformed thuther" and the former "debunking director on the JREF forum.

by William Hughes
On Thursday, July 30, 2009, advocates for a single-payer healthcare system, similar to Medicare but improved and expanded to include all Americans, stormed Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Dr. David L. Scheiner of Chicago, President Barack Obama's personal physician for 22 years before the president took office, criticized the president's current healthcare reform proposal and endorsed the single-payer system as embodied in U.S. House of Representatives bill HR 676.more...

by William Hughes
On June 3, 2009, filmmakers Eric Nadler and Bob Coen held a congressional screening, in the Canon Office Building, of their documentary "Anthrax War." They are also coauthors of Dead Silence: Fear and Terror on the Anthrax Trail, a companion book to the film. Trailers for the documentary and more detailed information about the investigative project of Nadler and Coen, which was conducted on a global scale, can be found at www.anthraxwar.com. According to Nadler, the deadly anthrax attacks in the days following 9/11 sparked a boom in bio-defense which is now a $50 billion industry in the U.S. This huge entity, "a cash cow," the authors underscored, has been largely privatized and is operating with little oversight.

9/11 truth activist David Slesinger (www.911courage.org) visited Marcus Raskin, co-founder of Institute for Policy Studies, on April 22, 2009 at his Washington, D.C. office to ask him about his views on the 9/11 truth movement.

by William Hughes
On Thursday, April 30, 2009, in a massive act of non-violent "civil resistance" over 50 activists were arrested at a protest action in front of the White House. The protesters refused to move from the sidewalk when ordered to do so by the police. The activists were demanding that the administration of President Barack Obama uphold the supremacy of the law and investigate and prosecute wrongdoers in the Bush-Cheney administration responsible for "acts of torture." The demonstration was sponsored by the group Witness Against Torture. The activists also charged that many of the most egregious torture policies carried out by the Bush-Cheney administration "remain in place."

Jack Blood of Deadline Live reported yesterday, April 16, 2009, that he was told by Loose Change director Dylan Avery that there is now a very good possibility that Barry Jennings' death could have been due to foul play. According to Blood, Avery hired a private investigator to look into Jennings' mysterious death. However, the investigator ended up referring the case to law enforcement before refunding his pay and asking Avery to never contact him again. Avery also visited Jennings home and found it vacant and for sale.more...

9/11 truth activist David Slesinger (www.911courage.org) caught up with historian Howard Zinn (author of A People's History of the United States) after he spoke at Busboys and Poets in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 2, 2009 for an interview about his views on the 9/11 truth movement.more...

Dr. S. Shyam Sunder, NIST's lead investigator for the World Trade Center disaster, reported that the collapse of WTC 7 was caused by fires in the building initiated by falling debris from the collapse of WTC 1, but that structural damage from the debris "had little effect in causing the collapse of WTC 7." In fact Sunder attributed this first ever total collapse of a tall building by fire to "heating of floor beams and girders" which caused a "critical support column to fail, initiating a fire-induced progressive collapse."

Just after the NIST briefing concluded, Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth (ae911truth.org) held a press conference to refute NIST's claims.more...

Many people are unaware that a third New York City skyscraper, 47 stories tall, collapsed on September 11, 2001 in what some say looked like a controlled demolition. There is still no official explanation for its collapse. On July 6, 2008 the BBC—whose reporters announced the collapse 20 minutes before it actually happened—aired a program The Conspiracy Files: 9/11 - The Third Tower on the mysterious collapse of World Trade Center Building Seven that includes an interview with Barry Jennings, a City Housing Authority worker who was trapped for hours in the building by explosions.

Now Dylan Avery, director of the popular Loose Change videos, which challenge the official version of 9/11, has released an earlier uncut interview he did with Jennings because he feels it provides key information which did not come out in the BBC piece. When the long-awaited National Institute of Standards and Technology report on WTC 7 is released, it is expected to attribute the collapse to fires in the building and structural damage caused by debris hitting the building from the collapse of the second WTC tower (WTC 1). However, in this interview Jennings is very insistent that the explosions he experienced in WTC 7 occurred before the collapse of either of the two main towers.more...

With unseasonably mild temperatures reaching 57 degrees, a large demonstration of protestors from all over the country and parts of the world gathered on the National Mall in front of the U.S. Capitol on Saturday, Jan. 27 to rally against President George W. Bush’s latest military buildup in Iraq.

Although many major news organizations reported the attendance to be in the tens of thousands, rally organizers with United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) announced that the total was 500,000.more...

On Wednesday, December 20, 2006 the Federal Communications Commission ruled 3-2 along partisan lines that telephone companies seeking to enter the pay-TV market will not be bound by the same regulations as the cable companies. While the telcos claim that the ruling will lead to better services, more choices and lower prices, local municipalities will be restricted in their ability to negotiate franchise agreements that provide for public access channels and institutional networks or require extending service to all houses.more...

Students from Baltimore City schools joined about 7,000 in a march on Washington, D.C. Monday, December 1, 2006 from the Supreme Court to the Lincoln Memorial. A BGM video of the event should be available soon.