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'ISIS among the refugees' - Prelude to another European "terror attack"?

Harrison Koehli
Sott.net

The iconic image of 3-year-old refugee Aylan Kurdi's lifeless body on a beach on the Turkish coast went 'viral' recently and brought the two-year-long European 'refugee crisis' to widespread public attention. EU nations are now facing an influx of potentially hundreds of thousands of migrants fleeing their NATO-war-torn countries in search of safety and stability. Whether or not they'll find it is still an open question. This 'refugee'...

9/11, Mass Hypnosis par Excellence

Adam A.
Sott.net

Dear readers of Sott.net, this is the sixth in a series of letters I have been writing to a friend. I find myself surprised that I am writing him. I find myself surprised that I am writing so much. My friend is 43, I am 69. These numbers seem unreal because the last time I saw this friend was when he was a young teenager. At the time, his ability to learn things with great ease astonished me. Almost the same month my friend was born, the book...

Holding a mirror to the U.S. on exceptionalism, double standards, and a global police supra-state

Catherine Shakdam
RT

As the Middle East continues to descend into madness, wrecked by wars and convulsed by human tragedies, America stands at the center of it all - the grand engineer of instability, the architect of a world system which cornerstone is profoundly ademocratic. For well over a decade now the world has been force-fed American exceptionalism; taught to believe that America knows best what the world needs, how it needs to be organized and more...

Mantra for 9/11: 14 years later, how we got here and the hell it has created

Tom Engelhardt
TomDispatch

Fourteen years later and do you even believe it? Did we actually live it? Are we still living it? And how improbable is that? Fourteen years of wars, interventions, assassinations, torture, kidnappings, black sites, the growth of the American national security state to monumental proportions, and the spread of Islamic extremism across much of the Greater Middle East and Africa. Fourteen years of astronomical expense, bombing campaigns galore,...

'Give me liberty or give me death': The loss of freedom and institution of a corporate police state in the 14 years since 9/11

John W. Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute

"Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse." ― Alan Moore,V for Vendetta What began with the passage of the USA Patriot Act in October 2001 has snowballed into the eradication of every vital...