While the loss of lives in the 9/11 attacks was tragic and, for me, profoundly shocking at the time, let’s not forget the countless lives, not just North American but also Iraqi and Afghani, that have been subsequently lost in two totally unnecessary o…
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djkelly.ca: Tuesday, September 11, 2001
Every day has a story. But not every day has a story that changes so much in your life. For ten years I haven’t told my story because it’s not special or unique compared to anyone else’s, especially on that day. But I now realize that it’s an important story
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Premier meets with first responders on 10th anniversary of 9/11
http://www.ontarioliberal.ca/NewsBlog/NewsDetails.aspx?id=Celebrating+Ontario%26acute%3bs+First+Responders“Whether it’s responding to a call or volunteering in our communities, they make a real difference in our lives. Our police, our paramedics, o…
Continue readingTrashy's World: I was standing in line…
… waiting to get into my building. PSAC was having one of those controlled entry “job actions” to protest against a lack of progress at the negotiating tables. One of my ADMs was going up and down the line with Tim Bits telling us to relax and we’d be in the building soon. The Union […]
Continue reading350 or bust: Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, my sister-in-law Jen forwarded this thoughtful response to the terror attacks, written by Deepak Chopra. On this 10 year anniversary, these compassionate and prescient words are worth revisiting: As fate would have it, I…
Continue readingA. Picazo: 9/11 – A Decade Later
Take this opportunity to educate yourself of the facts surrounding the rise of Radical Islam, Neo-Conservatism, and the Politics of Fear. It may change the way you view the attacks of September 11, the subsequent “war on terror,” and the never-ending wars in the Middle East. For those largely unfamiliar
Continue reading350 or bust: The World After 9/11
North America, in case you haven’t turned on a computer, television, or radio this past week, is remembering the terror attacks on the twin towers, and the Pentagon, ten years ago tomorrow. Gerald Kaplan wrote in yesterday’s Globe and Mail:…
Continue reading“The Empire Is Eating Itself”
That’s the title of a Ralph Nader piece that ran in Counterpunch last week, and on this 10th Anniversary of 9/11 Weekend, with sovereign nations joining the “TBTF” club, stock markets careening every which way but loose and formerly robust economies grinding to, if not a halt, at least a noticeable slowdown, it’s as apt a […]
Dead Wild Roses: Lewis Lapham – 9/11 Revisited, mythology exposed.
The stories woven by official narratives often have little to with the reality of the situation. Lewis Lapham, editorially in Harper’s Magazine, was bold enough to contradict the official version of events. He lost subscribers, was labelled “unamerican” and worse, for his views. Listen to what he has to say as we near the approved […]
bastard.logic: Looking Backward in the Year 2011
by matttbastard Der Spiegel runs down W’s “tragic legacy” in the long, long, looooong decade of U.S. decline that followed 9/11: America was trapped in Iraq for years, where a victory was a long time coming and was never a … Continue reading →
A Different Point of View....: 9/11 and the “War on Terror” – Had the U.S. done the right thing, thousands of lives could have been saved
Ten years after close to 3,000 people died in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, we witnessed hundreds of sympathetic events, millions of words in newspapers, and tens-of-thousands of hours of TV and radio coverage – ne…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Why Commemorate 9/11?
It’s hard to determine what legitimate purpose there is in commemorating the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon. The difficulty arises in going back and seeing how those nearly 3,000 de…
Continue readingthe reeves report: Feel Safer Post-9/11? Feel $92B Safer?
Earlier this week, the non-partisan (but left-leaning) Rideau Institute released a report on Canada’s defence spending since 9/11 entitled The Cost of 9/11 and the Creation of a National Security Establishment. It was written by economist David Macdonald, and it calculated that $92B ($69B adjusted for inflation) has been spent on ‘security’ in various forms … Continue reading »
Harper Sounds Islamophobic Dog Whistle, Again, Just In Time to Commemorate 9/11
In another move back in time, Stevie Spiteful plans to reintroduce two anti-terror clauses that were originally introduced in 2001, but expired in 2007. Here they are!
One allowed police to arrest suspects without a warrant and detain them for three days without charges if police believed a terrorist act may have . . . → Read More: Harper Sounds Islamophobic Dog Whistle, Again, Just In Time to Commemorate 9/11
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: In Washington, "Peace" Is a Dirty Word
They’ve utterly demonized the meaning of “liberal,” driven “socialism” into the cellars of Lubyanka, transformed “entitlement” into something anything but deserved; and now they can no longer stand the foul stench of “peace.” Welcome to the…
Continue readingHellberta: Another sleepless night
It’s 3:45am. For the past week I’ve had a churning in my stomach I can’t shake, and with it I can’t sleep. So much is on my mind, but so much is always on my mind — why should this week be any different? So I’m going to just sit
Continue readingHellberta: 10 years later, 9/11 questions rage on
10 years and 3 wars later with Osama Bin Laden apparently buried in the ocean many questions still remain about 9/11. For instance, if even 1% of the questions presented in the following presentations cannot be answered, then there is something the U.S. government has lied about. By the way, the
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Enough of 9/11 Already!
Arrrrgh. Another maudlin 9/11 commemorative is drawing closer – this time with even more dramatic intensity, being the 10th anniversary of the completely avoidable attacks on the American “homeland” that supposedly “changed everything” (i.e., provided a convenient excuse for the … Continue reading →
Ten years later
…former Preznit Georgie W Bush finally explains the embarrassingly protracted 7-minute-long brain fart that was his response to the news that New York City and the Pentagon were in utter devastation and the nation was under attack: Former U.S. President George W. Bush says his apparent lack of reaction to the first news of the […]