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The September 11 Legacy: Forever Wars, Patriot Act, And Loss Of Legal Rights

September 15, 2023 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. , , , ,
Everyone should know what happened in Washington on September 14, 2001, even though there is an exhortation to remember the attacks which took place on September 11, 2001. On September 14 the Senate and the House of Representatives passed joint resolutions which resulted in the Authorization for Use of Military Force of 2001  (AUMF) , which President George W. Bush signed into law on September 18. Just three days after September 11, when senators and members of congress should have been asking hard questions about what happened on that fateful date, they instead chose to give President Bush carte blanche to wage war whenever and wherever he chose.

President Biden: End The War On Terror At Home!

September 21, 2021 Defending Rights & Dissent. , , ,
While the Bush Administration launched these policies, the Obama and Trump Administrations cemented and expanded them. Under Obama, the US carried out drone strikes targeting US citizens, ratified bulk collection of US citizens’ metadata, initiated the Countering Violent Extremism program, and revived the World War I-era Espionage Act to punish War on Terror whistleblowers. Trump called for the surveillance of mosques, enacted a Muslim Ban, and continued to abuse the Espionage act, using it to indict a journalist for publishing truthful information about US war crimes. You made the decision to end the US ground war in Afghanistan. We applaud this decision. But after twenty years, it is time not just to end the war on terror abroad, but at home too. Doing so requires...

September 14, 2001: The Day America Became Israel

September 14, 2020 Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (Ret.), Popular Resistance. , , ,
The rubble was still smoldering at Ground Zero when the U.S. House of Representatives voted to essentially transform itself into the Israeli Knesset, or parliament.  It was 19 years ago, 11:17pm Washington D.C. time on September 14, 2001 when the People’s Chamber approved House Joint Resolution 64, the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) “against those responsible for the recent attacks.”  Naturally, that was before the precise identities, and full scope, of “those responsible” were yet known - so the resolution’s rubber-stamp was obscenely open-ended by necessity, but also by design. 

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