9/11

September 2011

Ten years and two wars later, Americans face the monetary and psychological costs of both militarism and Wall Street materialism, effectively bankrupting the country; not to mention the casualties of war at home, and in Afghanistan and Iraq.

September 2011

A recommitment to King’s inspired vision might just be the best thing that could ever come out of the horrendous death and destruction of 9/11: a commitment to live, a commitment to love, and a commitment to peace and social justice.

September 2011

The tragedy of 11 September 2001 was used by authoritarian forces in the United States as a political opportunity.

September 2011

All too often 9/11 is viewed from the perspective of the nation-state rather than from a global standpoint.

September 2011

It wasn’t the events of September 11th that changed the world, but the events of September 12th and beyond, when the Bush administration took the world to war in response; that changed the world, and continues to threaten U.S. and global security, and shred U.S. democracy.

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