Thursday, February 13, 2025

Tag: September 11

How 9/11 bred a ‘war on terror’ from hell

That never-ending disaster—known as “the war on terror”—has resulted in the deaths of nearly a million people and the “indirect deaths” of perhaps 3.6 million more.

September 11 and the debacle of ‘nation-building’ in Iraq and Afghanistan

Nation-building in Afghanistan and Iraq was the resurrection of a doctrine that should have been buried after Vietnam.

Yes, George W Bush Bears Some Responsibility for US Vulnerability on...

While George W. Bush loyalists’ refrain that he “kept us safe,” the Bush administration could have done more to forestall 9/11. Did the Bush gang cynically use 9/11 to take America to war on false pretenses?

Mantra for 9/11

Fourteen years later and we are still living in an improbable world. Tom Engelhardt discusses the wars, interventions, assassinations, tortures, kidnappings, the growth of the American national security state and the spread of Islamic extremism.

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Judge orders health agencies to restore medical webpages removed by Trump administration

A federal court ruling forces the CDC, FDA, and HHS to reinstate vital public health resources that were taken down under Trump’s executive order targeting gender-related medical information.

Shadow government: How Trump’s executive order hands Musk control of the US government

An investigation into how a new executive order has enabled an unelected billionaire to oversee federal hiring, dismantle public agencies, and consolidate unchecked power over American democracy.

Support oppositional press—not media owned by Fascist collaborators

In order to separate truth from lies, the anti-Trump opposition should make sure to include a healthy amount of oppositional press in our media diets, and to take reporting from non-oppositional press with a grain of salt.

Tesla paid zero federal income tax in 2024 while GOP pushes more corporate tax...

Musk’s trillion-dollar company paid nothing in federal taxes while working Americans foot the bill.

In stunningly bright colors

Can art offer us a vision of our world, for the better or sometimes distinctly the worse, that brings it into a kind of cohesion we often don’t experience in our actual lives?