![]() I would also like to ask you to offer up a moment of silence for all of those who have been harassed, imprisoned, disappeared, tortured, raped, or killed in retaliation for those strikes, for the victims in Afghanistan, Iraq, in the U.S., and throughout the world.Ī full day of silence… for the tens of thousands of Palestinians who have died at the hands of U.S.-backed Israeli forces over decades of occupation. Originally published September 11, 2002īefore I begin this poem, I’d like to ask you to join me in a moment of silence in honor of those who died in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001. Thank reader Jan B for suggesting this work.īy Emmanuel Ortiz. I wonder how much the successful Iraq propaganda campaign stoked this new sense that the world was dangerous and the US needed to take more tough cop measures to restore a feeling of safety.Īs an aside, or those of you who saw the pomp around the death of the Queen and the coronation of the new King as colonial porn, you might find an antidote in After Queen’s Death, Victims of British Imperialism Share Why ‘We Will Not Mourn’ at Common Dreams. To a person, they’d grown up in stable circumstances and had done pretty to very well as adults. I knew some people who were objectively not at all affected by the day’s events, not overdosing on TV, and yet were very rattled. But the third was the level of upset also depended on whether you saw the world as a safe place. ![]() Generally speaking, the more you watched, the more unhinged you became. The second was not seeing much TV I didn’t have cable and caught updates at the gym. One was the obvious “being above 14th Street”. I noticed I was less rattled than most I encountered in Manhattan and tried to work out why. I was in New York City on 9/11, although uptown, and thus somewhat removed (those who lived below 14th Street had car and public transportation routes cut off, could smell the acrid smoke and the din of sirens). Americans now know the case for invading Iraq was fabricated, but most people in the rest of the world had worked that out at the time (yours truly participated in the huge protest in Sydney). There was a case of sorts for invading Afghanistan. To repeat what is likely to seem obvious: the significance of 9/11 is that it greatly accelerated US nation-breaking for sport and profit. It’s that the US has sanctified this event when we’ve casually, either directly or by supporting perpetrators, killed and maimed vastly more. The issue, as the poem below makes clear, is not that the deaths and other human costs of 9/11 should not be remembered and mourned. ![]() I am a day late to note the passing of yet another 9/11 date, and that might not be such a terrible thing, although saying that risks offending those who lost someone in the attacks or suffered as a result of participating in the rescue effort. Read about why we’re doing this fundraiser, what we’ve accomplished in the last year, and our current goal, karōshi prevention. Please join us and participate via our donation page, which shows how to give via check, credit card, debit card, or PayPal. 770 donors have already invested in our efforts to combat corruption and predatory conduct, particularly in the financial realm. ![]() This is Naked Capitalism fundraising week. ![]()
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