The promised guest post will appear below.
20 years ago. Thursday. Nice late summer day. I happened to be at home. My mother in law called and said “put the tv on“. Then, as now, the tv was off. Never been much of a fan. So I turned it on and wow! I could hardly believe what was taking place. Planes hitting buildings? Buildings exploding/collapsing as if they’d been rigged with explosives for demolition? Falling far to neatly and compactly for the massive structures they were. Some talking heads were stating, that day, the destruction was reminiscent of controlled demolitions.
9/11 @ 20: It Could Have Been So Much Worse!
Tag: War on Terror
‘Woke’ imperialism, women’s liberation and Afghanistan
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How the US stole Feminism to justify bombing, torture, occupation and Empire
The War On Terror Became America’s First “Feminist” War
Rafia Zakaria on American Neoimperialism Lies of Liberation
How the US stole Feminism to justify bombing, torture, occupation and Empire
How Afghanistan’s President Helped His Brother and a U.S. Contractor Secure a Lucrative Mineral Processing Permit
Biden Admitted US War in Afghanistan Isn’t Really Ending – It’s Becoming a Somalia-Like Drone War
Israel’s Lawyer Speaks Up
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran BY PHILIP GIRALDI • UNZ REVIEW • AUGUST 17, 2021
America’s foreign policy is a funny thing, except for the fact that it is no laughing matter. Given the recent sentencing of whistleblower Daniel Hale for revealing to the media that the US military’s drone program kills innocent civilians including many children 90% of the time, one has to wonder what the “humanitarian” Joe Biden Administration is up to. Hale will presumably serve 45 months in a federal prison though the actual time in the slammer might be closer to 18 months if he behaves and submits to counseling.
Israel’s Lawyer Speaks Up
The War in Afghanistan: The real “Crime of the Century” behind the Opioid Crisis
US sends in B-52 bombers and Spectre gunships to bombard the Taliban in a desperate bid to stop advance on three key cities in Afghanistan
WE ARE MANY. THE OPPRESSORS ARE NOT.
WE ARE MANY. THE OPPRESSORS ARE NOT.
In short, everything is under control according to those who destroyed the middle eastern countries. The only difference is that now the target is us. We are under attack. Some of us are demonized by the establishment to play the role of scapegoats. Some of us are praised as heroes saving lives and sacrificing themselves. Our communities are being destroyed to be further consumed by the colonizers of humanity and nature.
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What could Iraqis do as they suffered the deadly embargo and invasions? The question is ours now. Unfortunately, many of those who stood with the empire are still insisting on fighting the imperial war as we have become the targets of the war, demonizing our community members as enemies, repeating slogans and talking points to justify the imperial restructuring, as our communities fall apart to be devoured by the colonizers. It is no coincidence that those who oppose the current mobilization are accused of being racists, conspiracy theorists, or fascist worshipers—just as not agreeing with bombing brown people would be accused of letting brown children die by the hand of a “dictator.”

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