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  9/9 and 9/11, 20 years later We may never know the full contours of the whole riddle inside an enigma when it comes to 9/11 and related issues    Massoud leaving Bazarak in the Panjshir after our interview in August 2001, roughly three weeks before his assassination. Photo: Pepe Escobar It’s impossible not to start with the latest tremor in a series of stunning geopolitical earthquakes.  Exactly 20 years after 9/11 and the subsequent onset of the Global War on Terror (GWOT), the Taliban will hold a ceremony in Kabul to celebrate their victory in that misguided Forever War. Four key exponents of Eurasia integration – China, Russia, Iran and Pakistan – as well as Turkey and Qatar, will be officially represented, witnessing the official return of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. As blowbacks go, this one is nothing short of intergalactic. The plot thickens when we h...

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Then What…? James Howard Kunstler The strange demeanor of CNN’s news readers is telling us something: check out Erin Burnett in the seven o’clock time slot. No affect, like she is on drugs, in a kind of trance… or just going through the motions against her will. Same thing with Kate Bolduan, a sort of permanent half-scowl, as if she’s been told to carry out a detested chore, like cleaning the carpet where hubbie’s old dog had another “accident.” Is it, perhaps, that they just don’t believe the bullshit they are serving up to anxious viewers anymore? Or is it something even darker? That would be my guess. Next thing you know, their heads will start rotating 360 degrees, projectile vomiting pea soup at the cameras. I surf through all the major cable news channels, of course, to detect the textures, flavors, and odors of the American zeitgeist — the spirit of the times. It’s a harsh, sour thing these days, with overtones of dead skunk wrapped in a used diaper and dipped in vinegar, almost...

  Portland State professor Boghossian resigns in disgust – a cult hero in the war against woke who earned his stripes the hard way Damian Wilson is a UK journalist, ex-Fleet Street editor, financial industry consultant and political communications special advisor in the UK and EU. 9 Sep, 2021 19:29 / Updated 17 hours ago Get short URL Screenshot: The Way Forward/Peter Boghossian © New Discourses/YouTube After 10 years on the frontline of the fight against critical theory and its bogus brand of social justice, straight-talking philosophy professor Peter Boghossian has given his university bosses what they wanted: his resignation. The cause of common sense suffered a setback this week when one of its leading lights, cult hero Boghossian, finally threw in the towel and resigned from his post at Portland State University (PSU), a woke hotbed of critical theory, victimhood and liberal intolerance. Hell on earth. How this thick-skinned crusader ...

  Why Aren’t Libertarians Protesting the Freedom-Busting Texas Abortion Law Posted on September 10, 2021 by Jerri-Lynn Scofield By Lynn Parramore, Senior Research Analyst at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. Originally published at the Institute for New Economic Thinking website It was a bad week for freedom in America. With Texas banning most abortions and empowering self-appointed vigilantes to stop women from exercising their right to reproductive healthcare, and the Supreme Court letting it stand, you’d think freedom-loving libertarians would be out in full force protesting. After all, libertarians describe themselves as principled foes of state coercion and passionate defenders of individual liberty. While they may give different weight to principles of individual liberty, self-determination, and so on, libertarians claim to be highly skeptical of government intrusion into our lives. Wikipedia informs us that most generally agree that sperms, eg...

9/11 was strictly speaking a coup d’état? By Thierry Meyssan    At the end of 2001, I published a series of articles on the attacks of September 11, 2001, followed by a book in March 2002  [ 1 ] . The book was translated into 18 languages and opened a worldwide debate questioning the veracity of the official US narrative. However, the international press refused to discuss my arguments and launched a campaign accusing me of "amateurism"  [ 2 ] , "conspiracy theory"  [ 3 ] , and "denial"  [ 4 ] . Above all, the US authorities and their supporters reduced my work to the first few pages of my book: the challenge to the official version of the attacks. But it is a work of political science aimed at denouncing what these false-flag attacks would make possible: the surveillance of Western populations and the endless war in the wider Middle East. In this article, I will therefo...