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  Al CIA-da Mission Accomplished! The Corbett Report by James Corbett corbettreport.com As the establishment media has been eager to remind you, this weekend marked the 25th anniversary of the tragic events of September 11, 2001, the horrific act of brutality committed by those dastardly Al Qaeda terrorists. #NeverForget But, as the US government has just informed us, Al Qaeda are actually totally cool (at least in Syria), so why are you upset about Uncle Sam lifting a few sanctions on them, you obsessed weirdos, you?! Yes, if you were Normie Q. Normieson and you swallowed the Al Qaeda lie as every patriotic, tax-paying, government-trusting citizen has done for a quarter of a century, you might be tempted to cynically observe that this is Al Qaeda’s “mission accomplished” moment. After all, they pulled off 9/11, caused havoc in Afghanistan and Iraq, menaced the world for decades, and now they’re being normalized and rehabilitated on the international stage. “Don’t you see ?” says ...

  THE CULTURAL PRODUCTION OF TERROR How Regime Change is ruining your life Frank Wright We inhabit a vast machine of cultural production . This means that for a century the methods by which we are governed using mass culture have been constantly refined to produce a total system of control. Today I will argue that this system produces terror, virally marketing violence alongside promoting the benefits of the downstream effects of regime change. It has produced the  War on Terror  - as well as the terrorists required to sell it to the populations of the West. From 9/11 to Syria today, the US and its allies have manufactured terrorism abroad and at home to replace stability with a permanent state of emergency. This is all part of the story - of the Cultural Production of Terror. Contents Part One - How Terror Became the New Normal Part Two - Starting a War on Terror - US, Israel and Al-Qaeda in concert Part Three - The Cultural Production of Islamic Terrorism Described as a...