Suzan Mazur, morning September 11, 2001. Photo by Nathan.
My editor at the Financial Times phoned me sometime after 9am ET on September 11, 2001 following the first strike on the World Trade Center. I didn’t have the TV on and was unaware of the hit. I told her I’d head downtown from the West Village to investigate.
I knew my way around Tribeca and hopped a fence not far from Independence Plaza where I met two architects: Nathan and Emmett, who had hoofed it down the West Side Highway from the mid-30s.
We spent the day on-site trying to understand what was unfolding. Late in the afternoon we were advised that WTC 7 was coming down and to move! WTC 7 from the outside did not look like it was about to collapse.
Suzan Mazur, 9-11 WTC. Photo by Nathan.
A fire chief smacked Emmett in the back of the head to reinforce the danger; Nathan and I sought safety in a garage around Independence Plaza as glass began to seriously fly.
We walked home late afternoon among the army of the bewildered. . .
I'm the author of five books: The Altenberg 16: An Exposé of the Evolution Industry; The Origin of Life Circus: A How To Make Life Extravaganza; The Paradigm Shifters: Overthrowing 'the Hegemony of the Culture of Darwin'; Royal Society: The Public Evolution Summit; and the most recent---Darwin Overthrown: Hello Mechanobiology.
My reports have appeared in the Financial Times, The Economist, Forbes, Newsday, Archaeology, Astrobiology, Connoisseur, Omni, Huffington Post, Progressive Review ("How Bush Got Bounced From Carlyle Board"), CounterPunch, Scoop Media and other publications, as well as on PBS, CBC and MBC.
More than a dozen of my stories related to the Rome antiquities conspiracy trial were featured in Harvard Law School's Art Law Syllabus 2008.
I've covered the wars: Colombian Drug War, Gulf War, Sudan, and Kashmir (from both the Indian and Pakistani sides of the conflict).
And I’ve been a guest on Charlie Rose, McLaughlin and various Fox Television News programs talking about those crises and others.
For some years along the way, I was a runway fashion model for legends Geoffrey Beene, Bill Blass, Giorgio Sant' Angelo and so many more.
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