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In the silence, the cries of the past echo loudly, urging us to never forget and ensure that the horrors of genocide are consigned to history, never to be repeated.
There is certainly one lasting lesson from the war on terror: once powers previously outlawed or at least restrained in the name of fair, just, and responsible laws and norms become codified and implemented, the road back to normalcy is tantamount to impossible.
The author says that he started writing this article on the evening of September 11, 2001, and completed and published it on September 12, 2001: “From the very outset, I questioned the official story, which described nineteen Al Qaeda sponsored hijackers involved in a highly sophisticated and organized operation.”
The author describes how the U.S. has turned much of the planet into a global free-fire zone. The so-called “war on terror” has resulted in the deaths of nearly a million people and the “indirect deaths” of perhaps 3.6 million more.
Barack Obama is often presented as a moral political leader whose historic ascendancy to the U.S. presidency as the first black president is a feat to behold. Yet he was a brutal war criminal who murdered thousands of innocent lives under America’s obsolete war against terror.
Coordinated strikes by the Resistance from multiple fronts have forced new rules of engagement on Tel Aviv, which is already struggling to keep its domestic and external crises under control. Can Israel survive another, bigger multi-front assault?
“American Dream, Global Nightmare: On the Origins of the Iraq War” – this piece was written in 2003, it still stands up fairly well. Also: “20 Years Later, the Stain of Corporate Media’s Role in Promoting Iraq War Remains”.
20 years ago, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, as war criminals, launched the sociocide of the people of Iraq. That illegal war of aggression was based on recognized lies, propaganda and cover-ups.
Collectively, it seems that we may be on the verge of returning to a nightmarish past, where we lived in fear of a nuclear war that would kill us all, the tall and the small, and especially the smallest among us, our children, who really are our future.
A telling reminder of just what a strange and unnerving American world of war and secrecy we’ve been plunged into since September 11, 2001.
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Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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