Approaching the terrorist attacks as a memorializing event on the anniversary generally avoids deeper inquiry into the historic U.S. role in the Middle East and Afghanistan, write Jeremy Stoddard and Diana Hess.
Teaching Sept. 11
Category: U.S.
Avoiding Nuclear War
The road to possible nuclear Armageddon has been littered with lost opportunities for peaceful co-existence with Russia and signposted by repeated U.S. provocations, but Ukraine’s neutrality remains key to everyone’s security, writes Edward Lozansky.
Patrick Lawrence: Exceptionalism & Its Consequences
Considering the common U.S. reaction to 9/11, we must ask: Can the U.S. do without its exceptionalist consciousness? Or is this consciousness indispensable to America?
9/11 Bred a ‘War on Terror’ from Hell
A pattern of regret — distinct from remorse — for the venture militarism that failed in Afghanistan and Iraq does exist, writes Norman Solomon. But the disorder persists in U.S. foreign policy.
NATO Chief: NATO Expansion Caused Russian Invasion
It’s the damnedest thing how you’re called a Kremlin agent for saying the war was provoked by NATO expansionism and it serves U.S. interests, even when NATO and U.S. officials openly admit the same thing, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
CHILE 50 YRS: MI6 Secretly Helped Pinochet
As the regime murdered political opponents, a U.K. propaganda unit passed material to Chile’s military intelligence and MI6 connived with a key orchestrator of the coup, newly declassified files show, John McEvoy reports.
CHILE 50 YRS: UK Backed Pinochet’s Bloody Coup
When the Chilean military overthrew Allende’s democratically elected government on Sept. 11, 1973, U.K. officials worked with the new junta as it committed widespread atrocities, declassified files show, Mark Curtis reports.
CHILE 50 YRS: Had There Been No Coup in 1973
At the time, 50 years ago on Monday, the coup was seen as not just an attack on the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende, writes Vijay Prashad. It was an attack on the Third World.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: US Justice Dept’s Next Victim
Daniel Duggan is facing the same extreme tactics applied to Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, Daniel Hale and others caught in Washington’s “national security” dragnet.
Chris Hedges: Trauma in the USA
American society spawns trauma and this trauma expresses itself in a variety of self-destructive pathologies, including the erosion of democracy and rise of neo-fascism.