#war-on-terror — Public Fediverse posts
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In part of honoring "never forget" beyond just an empty slogan, for eye witnesses to the Twin Towers falling (such as myself), hearing the President of the United States, fabricating a total fiction of what they did on 9-11, to the point their fake story was essentially an attempt at "stolen valor" against both the many victims and brave first responders, in past years would never have been considered "normal" or brushed off as not being enormously offensive. And in coming from an 80 year old with a long history of compulsively lying, as well as being borderline incoherent, in any other case in our nation's history than the political situation that exists today would have triggered bi-partisan calls for his immediate removal, due to not being mentally fit to serve.
What DJT DID do on 9-11 was, from a place in NY which was not ever effected by any damage at all, was to callously state to interviewers just hours after the Towers fell, that he was now the owner of the "tallest building in New York City" given that the Towers no longer held that record.
Beyond that - it is beyond sad to see that our nation has not only started to forget the events of the day of 9-11 itself (although given that at this point a 30 year old would likely have no direct memories of that day, it should be expected) - what is way more horrifying to me, is that so many people have forgotten or put out of their minds destructive and counter productive so many of the actions our nation took in response to that day - and that we are in yet another round of making similar mistakes.
Rest In Peace to all who perished on this day 25 years ago, - eternal gratitude to all the first responders that risked lives, limbs, and health in sacrifice to others that day - and hugs to all who lost family, were injured, or suffer from health issues from it.
And to all - PLEASE REMEMBER - the first responders on 9-11 showed what the best of humanity can look like, but in so many choices made after that day it showed the worst of what ends up being done in America's name - it's time to emulate the former and not the latter.
#9-11 #september11 #911 #restinpeace #memorial #politics #trump #maga #idiocracy #waronterror #firstresponders #newyorkcity #nyc -
#MichaelSavage’s #SavageNation episode that aired on #September11 is certainly offensive, especially by modern standards, but still worth listening to.
Why do you think that #GeorgeWBush was able to pass the #PatriotAct or justify the #WarOnTerror, attacking the #Taliban, #AlQaeda, and invading #Iraq on poor intel that they had WMDs?
Americans were willing to do anything to respond to a terrorist attack that deadly and of that scale.
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RE: https://www.psicospace.it/11-settembre-2001-world-trade-center-cosa-accadde-come-cambio-il-mondo/
25 anni fa, l’11 settembre 2001 cambiava il mondo.
Non solo per ciò che accadde quella mattina, ma per tutto quello che venne dopo.Nel nuovo articolo ricostruisco gli attentati, gli errori che li resero possibili e l’eredità che ancora oggi continua a influenzare il nostro presente.
Quanto del mondo in cui viviamo è ancora il mondo nato l’11 settembre?
#11Settembre #WorldTradeCenter #TorriGemelle #Storia #Terrorism #WarOnTerror
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11 settembre 2001, 25 anni dopo: Cosa accadde e come cambiò il mondo
Crediti: Robert, via Wikimedia Commons/Flickr, [CC BY-SA 2.0]; Michael Foran, via Wikimedia Commons/Flickr, [CC BY 2.0].Immagini ritagliate, combinate e adattate graficamente per l’articolo. La presente elaborazione grafica è distribuita con licenza CC BY-SA 2.0. Martedì 11 settembre 2001, negli Stati Uniti era iniziata una giornata apparentemente normale. A New York migliaia di persone stavano raggiungendo gli uffici del World Trade Center, a Washington si lavorava al Pentagono e […]https://www.psicospace.it/11-settembre-2001-world-trade-center-cosa-accadde-come-cambio-il-mondo/
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Timothy Snyder: "The basic American policy response to 9/11 should have been to liberate ourselves from fossil fuels. Without our dependence on oil, we would never have been entangled in the Middle East in the first place. Most of the 9/11 terrorists were Saudis, citizens of an oil kingdom that we helped to build, our “ally.”
https://snyder.substack.com/p/helping-the-terrorists-to-win #NineEleven #oil #WarOnTerror
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"In the years following 2001, the idea that the fight against terrorism must be carried out using militarized and exceptional measures became the norm globally. This occurred because other countries, such as Russia, China, and Israel, found in this counterterrorism framework an opportunity to legitimize their actions against internal and external enemies."
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My article is out! The West and Its Monster: The Real Clash Behind the “Clash of Civilisations” https://bklfiction.com/2026/09/07/the-west-and-its-monster-the-real-clash-behind-the-clash-of-civilisations/ #Afghanistan #WarOnTerror #USForeignPolicy #IslamicExtremism #HumanRights #Geopolitics #coldwarlegacy #proxywar
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@paulemetz.bsky.social Niet van de VS. Hij heeft wel een zaak aangespannen tegen Canada, omdat de Canadese inlichtingendiensten destijds foutieve informatie zouden hebben verstrekt die heeft geleid tot zijn arrestatie en marteling. Die zaak loopt nog geloof ik.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/guantanamo-bay-detainee-lawsuit-canada-1.6428886 #WarOnTerror #Guantánamo #MohamedouOuldSlahi
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"Mohamedou Ould Slahi (55) zat 14 jaar vast in Guantánamo Bay zonder formele aanklacht of beschuldiging. De brieven van en naar zijn familie in Mauritanië hielden hem op de been. [...]
Hoe pak je je leven weer op na 14 jaar gevangenschap, na marteling, het verlies van je moeder, na jaren waarin alles onzeker was? Het lukte hem door iets belangrijks te doen, iets wat zijn geloof hem leerde: door te vergeven. Zelfs zijn agressors in de gevangenis."https://www.groene.nl/artikel/met-geduld-en-hoop #WarOnTerror #Guantánamo
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How the U.S. government built a huge and hidden anti-terror apparatus after the 9/11 attacks.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dana Priest investigated the growth of a massive maze of clandestine government and private agencies aimed at fighting terrorism after the 9/11 attacks.
Secret efforts included a covert international war waged by the CIA that included drone strikes, black site prisons, and “enhanced interrogation techniques” widely criticized as torture; a domestic surveillance program that authorized the NSA to intercept certain telephone calls and emails of American citizens without a warrant; and other anti-terror programs.
This documentary shed new light on the nature, scale and scope of the government’s counter-terror operations after 9/11 — and explored mounting questions about those programs’ effectiveness.
In the run-up to the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Frontline is making a number of seminal documentaries from the days and years after 9/11 available to stream on YouTube for the first time. These documentaries offer a profound historical record of the attacks, what led up to them, the U.S. government's response, and the ripple effects across the U.S. and the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6gNfDl-Fss
#911 #WarOnTerror #Surveillance #CIA #USPol #Frontline #PBS #Terrorism #SaudiArabia
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"De oorlog tegen terreur wordt inmiddels door de VS zo ruim geïnterpreteerd dat nu zelfs vermeende drugssmokkelaars, door de regering-Trump ‘narco-terroristen’ genoemd, op zee worden opgeblazen.
Cuba, samen met Iran en Noord-Korea op de Amerikaanse lijst van ‘staten die terreur steunen’, wordt volledig afgeknepen. In zekere zin is de oorlog ook ‘thuis’ gekomen.
https://www.groene.nl/artikel/de-war-on-terror-is-een-oorlog-tegen-de-rechtsorde #WarOnTerror
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America had to fight a new kind of war—one with no clear front lines. The Finish shows how that war was built and fought.
#books #bookreview #WarOnTerror #NonfictionReads
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After 9/11, America had chances to build real peace in Afghanistan. But old habits die hard. We made deals with the wrong warlords. Ignored the right tribes. Made promises we wouldn't keep.
#books #bookreviews #WarOnTerror #ForeignPolicy #HistoryBuffs
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#FirstAmendment #PressFreedom #WarOnTerror #CivilLiberties #Journalism
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Storm smuggled European women to Yemen as jihadi brides. Later saved one from the same fate. The spy game has no clean hands. Only necessary evils in dark places.
#books #bookreviews #SpyReality #WarOnTerror #WeekendReading
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Eventually Everyone Will Be Called A Terrorist
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://defector.com/eventually-everyone-will-be-called-a-terrorist
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@edri The #WarOnTerror was from the conception of the first colonialists’ Empire before it was even projected and gaslighted by Bush Jr. was always a #WarOnRights Hence the #MagnaCarta the Suffragettes, MLK Jr and LGBTQ etc. but Trump with the help of the #CorporateHydra is above the Law? #GDPR #NoJusticeNoFreedom #TheFederationOfRepublics
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#AmericanPrestige pod welcomes #SpencerAckerman to discuss the #Trump Administration's efforts to deploy the #WarOnTerror against the #USleft.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSyxRGmXbAI
#USpol #USpolitics #WOT #GWOT #NSPM7 #surveillance #stateRepression #Palestine #Gaza #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #civilLiberties -
Storm infiltrated Al-Qaeda and befriended Anwar al-Awlaki, the terror group's deadliest recruiter. He drank tea with men planning mass murder. His cover was his real past.
#TrueSpy #WarOnTerror #WeekendRead #books #bookreview
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Tech Oligarchs Are Helping DHS Set Up Authoritarian Surveillance State
The Trump administration is supercharging surveillance in an unprecedented way, from the expansion of facial recognition technology to buying Americans’ data from third-party data brokers and building tools of mass surveillance for ICE, we’re witnessing an intense assault on our foundational Fourth Amendment rights. #Trump #privacy #surveillance #MassSurveilance #FourthAmendment #DHS #ICE #illiberal #authoritarian #surveilanceState #repression #warOnTerror #Prairieland #techOligarchy #ElonMusk #PeterThiel #MarcAndreessen
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Storm infiltrated Al-Qaeda and befriended Anwar al-Awlaki, the terror group's deadliest recruiter. He drank tea with men planning mass murder. His cover was his real past.
#TrueSpy #WarOnTerror #WeekendRead #books #bookreview
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Oh, the irony! 🥳 In a world where a webpage about the war on terror demands #JavaScript and #cookies, the real terror is clearly a malfunctioning browser! 🍪🔧 Who knew #democracy depended on enabling scripts? 😂
https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2026/06/02/how-the-war-on-terror-primed-america-for-autocracy #irony #waronterror #malfunctioningbrowser #HackerNews #ngated -
How the war on terror primed America for autocracy
#HackerNews #waronterror #autocracy #America #politics #democracy #freedom
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May I suggest to UK Labour that this would be another good case for the application of anti-terror laws? We can't have people taking direct action to clean up the waterways! Public order is the highest good!!!