Publisher’s Note: A new $300,000 University of Alaska research study proves what the global 9/11 Truth community has been arguing for 18 years – the sudden late afternoon collapse of World Trade Center building 7 could ONLY have been a pre-planned controlled demolition. The bizarre collapse of ETC Building 7 has long been considered the “smoking gun” that shoots a big gaping hole through the US government’s official 9/11 story, namely: “19 boxcutter -wielding Muslim fanatics wilding Saudi passports directed by a half-dead guy from a cave in Afghanistan single handedly evaded the world’s most powerful military apparatus and defied the laws of physics, chemistry, mathematics, architecture and aviation to commit the worst act of terrorism ever on US soil.” In case you missed it, even members of the 9/11 Commission are on record questioning the official 9/11 story. Finally, NYC firefighters are on record calling for reopening the 9/11 investigation, based on this new evidence. Baby steps. Long time readers of our publication know we devoted an entire issue of Vermont Commons to exploring 9/11’s unanswered questions way back in September 2005, the first autumn we were in print all over the Green Mountains. Here’s indy journalist Ben Swann summarizing these new developments…