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  • Forever War: How 9/11 Unleashed U.S. Violence on Civilians Abroad & Attacks on Rights at Home

    We look at how post-9/11 policies and the so-called war on terror reshaped the country and the world with two Columbia faculty members who convened a two-day symposium on “The Forever War and the First Amendment.” The symposium brought together journalists, scholars, lawyers and activists to explore the legacy of the “war on terror,” specifically focused on the impact on democratic rights, including the freedoms of speech and the press. First Amendment freedoms “were tested right away in the days and weeks after 9/11,” says Jameel Jaffer, legal expert and director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. “All of the surveillance authorities that were put in place after 9/11,” says Jaffer, “their use […]

  • "Horror to Last a Lifetime": Juan González on Covering 9/11 Attacks in NYC 25 Years Ago Today

    Friday marks 25 years since the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the crash of Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Around 3,000 people were killed that day, and nearly 10,000 more have died in the years since from 9/11-related illnesses connected to the collapse of the twin towers. In 2001, Democracy Now! was a radio show broadcasting from the attic of Downtown Community Television in Chinatown, just blocks away from ground zero. We were the closest national broadcast to the World Trade Center site. We were on the air when the second plane hit the south tower. Today, we reair a clip of that broadcast and hear Democracy Now! co-host Juan González read the column he wrote for the New York Daily News in […]

  • Headlines for September 11, 2026

    Yemen’s Houthis Seize Entire Red Sea Coastline, Consolidating Power Over Bab al-Mandab Strait, Oil Prices Surge Toward $110 a Barrel as More Ships Are Struck Near Strait of Hormuz, At GOP Midterm Convention, Trump Asks Supporters to “Cheat Like Hell” to Win Election, Supreme Court Again Blocks Missouri from Using Gerrymandered Congressional Map in Midterms, Russia Bombs Shopping Malls and Gas Stations in Ukraine After Kyiv Orders Strikes Deep Inside Russia, Nepal Seeks $20 Million in Climate Compensation After Glacier’s Collapse Triggers Deadly Floods, Study Warns Climate Feedback Loops Could Worsen Global Heating by 30%, September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows Holds Vigil Ahead of 25th Anniversary of Attacks, ICE Sends […]

  • 4.7 Million Dead, $8 Trillion: Counting the Devastating Human & Economic Costs of the Post‑9/11 Wars

    As part of our weeklong coverage marking the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks and the launch of the United States’ so-called war on terror, we take a look at the human, financial and environmental costs of U.S. military intervention around the world with Neta Crawford, co-founder of Brown University’s Costs of War Project. Researchers at the Costs of War Project estimate that nearly a million people have been killed as a direct result of U.S. military violence in the Middle East since 2001. At least half are estimated to be civilians. An additional 3.8 million deaths can be attributed to the indirect effects of war, including injuries, famine and long-term health conditions. And the wars have also increased the U.S. debt, […]

  • "Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump": Spencer Ackerman

    “The 'war on terror' was always a construct to be waged, never quite to be ended.” We discuss the origins and impacts of the global “war on terror,” launched by the U.S. government in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., with Spencer Ackerman, author of Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump. “We saw, beginning at the very outset of the 'war on terror,' our leaders told us to understand 9/11 as an assault of a foreign civilization, one that had nothing to do with the consequences of American extractive and exploitative foreign policy in the Muslim world or its support for Israel.” Ackerman says the “war on terror” and its repercussions have […]

Fair Observer

  • America’s Enduring Racial Chasm: Broken Promises and Systemic Injustice Deepen the Divide

    There has always been the promise that it won’t keep happening, that things will get better. There has always been the mantra that there is a diminishing racial chasm in America that will somehow generate a better economic and social order for Black and Brown people in the nation. But nothing better seems to happen,… Continue reading America’s Enduring Racial Chasm: Broken Promises and Systemic Injustice Deepen the Divide The post America’s Enduring Racial Chasm: Broken Promises and Systemic Injustice Deepen the Divide appeared first on Fair Observer.

  • Lindsay Clancy Killed Her Own Children. Is She to Blame?

    Never has a murder case been so dependent on subjective reaction. Whatever anyone says, the facts do not speak for themselves. Fact: On January 24, 2023, in Duxbury, Massachusetts, Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children — Cora, aged five, Dawson, three and Callan, just eight months old. Fact: She then jumped from a second-story window… Continue reading Lindsay Clancy Killed Her Own Children. Is She to Blame? The post Lindsay Clancy Killed Her Own Children. Is She to Blame? appeared first on Fair Observer.

  • Why India’s Elite Universities Have Fallen Silent

    Activist Sonam Wangchuk gained nationwide attention by joining an indefinite hunger strike at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar in solidarity with the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), a youth-led movement demanding Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation over India’s exam scandals — and pushing for reform of the Indian education system and accountability for the suicides and paper leaks… Continue reading Why India’s Elite Universities Have Fallen Silent The post Why India’s Elite Universities Have Fallen Silent appeared first on Fair Observer.

Anthropocene

Black Agenda Report

The Guardian

  • New Charlie Kirk statue vandalized at Turning Point USA headquarters

    The 8ft statue, installed in Phoenix last week to mark one year since Kirk’s killing, was found painted redA newly unveiled statue of the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk was vandalized at the Turning Point USA headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona.The statue was found with red spray-paint. A nearby poster memorial in front of the statue was vandalized with red paint as well. Continue reading...

  • JD Vance’s Catholicism could be at odds with Maga evangelicals in 2028

    Vice-president wears religion on his sleeve but winding spiritual path could alienate evangelicals and CatholicsUS vice-president JD Vance has worn his religion on his sleeve since converting to Catholicism in 2019. He recently published a book, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, and memorably met the late Pope Francis at the Vatican on Easter Sunday in 2025, a day before the pontiff died.But his religious identity could take on new weight as he positions himself for a presidential run in 2028, in which a successful campaign would make him only the third Catholic president in US history. Vance’s winding spiritual path – combined with his avowed evangelical roots – have the potential to stymie him, as he seeks to retain the […]

  • Pennsylvania reports apparent third measles-related death amid outbreak

    Jefferson county coroner says 40-year-old woman died on Saturday, while two infants died with disease in AugustA coroner in Pennsylvania announced the death of a 40-year-old woman associated with the state’s ongoing measles outbreak. The death appears to mark the third in the US state’s ongoing outbreak.Two previous deaths in the state were in infant children. In one case, the infant was born with a genetic defect that made her vulnerable to infection. The second infant child was infected with measles, and died of a ruptured spleen. Continue reading...

  • The Guardian view on the government’s corporate reforms: entrenching neoliberalism, not ending it | Editorial

    A recent consultation on corporate reporting prizes the interests of shareholders over society. It’s a step in the wrong directionThe question of what corporations are for is deeply political. In a 1970 article for the New York Times, Milton Friedman argued that the “social responsibility of business is to increase its profits”. The idea that CEOs should worry about providing good jobs was “pure and unadulterated socialism”, he wrote. Friedman and his fellow neoliberals saw companies as vehicles for enforcing their politics. Their ideas endured: UK bosses are now paid 130 times more than average workers.Despite Andy Burnham’s pledge to end neoliberalism, a 12-week consultation recently launched by his government risks […]

  • Wisconsin congressman swims to safety after plane makes emergency landing in lake

    Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany and pilot swim to safety after plane made emergency landing in lakeA Republican congressman said he had to swim to safety after a plane he was traveling in made an emergency landing in a lake late Saturday.Representative Tom Tiffany says he was returning from the La Crosse county Lincoln Day Dinner when the light aircraft lost power as it approached Wausau downtown airport. The pilot made an emergency landing in Lake Wausau. They both ended up in the water and swam to safety. Continue reading...

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Aeon

  • Penchants of the polymaths

    The fathers of Islamic science hold lessons for students: breadth over specialisation, and never let constraints get in the way- by Mariam SabriRead on Aeon

Unicorn Riot

  • Treesit Blocks US-Mexico Border Wall Construction for Six Weeks in Arizona

    Santa Cruz County, AZ – On a cool, cloudy morning in the San Rafael Valley in Southern Arizona, a young person popped their head over the edge of a platform in a tree, perched fifty feet above the rolling prairieland below. “Hi! Thanks for coming!”… The post Treesit Blocks US-Mexico Border Wall Construction for Six Weeks in Arizona appeared first on UNICORN RIOT.

The Conversation

Inter Press Service

  • Central Asia Marks 20 Years of Its Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone With Renewed Call for Disarmament

    Twenty years after five Central Asian states signed a landmark treaty banning nuclear weapons across their region, their foreign ministers have used the anniversary to warn that faltering arms-control agreements, nuclear modernization and deepening international mistrust are placing global security under growing strain. In a joint statement issued on September 8, the foreign ministers of

  • At Hammarskjöld’s Grave, Sixty-Five Years After Ndola

      Late in August I stood at Dag Hammarskjöld’s grave in Uppsala. It is a quiet place, a long way from New York and from the wars the United Nations exists to prevent. He died sixty-five years ago this month, on 18 September 1961, in an aircraft crash near Ndola, in what is now Zambia.

  • PHILIPPINES: ‘Responding to Disinformation Can’t Mean Giving the Government a Mandate to Police Truth’

      CIVICUS discusses the implications of the Philippines’ proposed anti-disinformation bill with Josalee Deinla, Secretary-General of the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers, a civil society organisation that defends civil liberties in the Philippines. The Philippines’ House of Representatives has approved the Digital Media Anti-False Information Act, which would criminalise the deliberate creation and spread of

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Yale Environment 360

  • The Breakdown of Natural Systems Could Intensify Warming by 30 Percent

    As the planet heats up, tundras are thawing, wetlands are fermenting, and forests are succumbing to larger and more frequent wildfires. The breakdown of these natural systems is unleashing huge volumes of emissions, further intensifying warming from the burning of fossil fuels. According to new research, such feedback loops could amplify human-driven warming by 20 to 30 percent.Read more on E360 →

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    Amnesty International

    Grist

    Truthout

    Labor Notes

    • Trabajadores de la salud luchan por la comunidad inmigrante en Vermont

      Los trabajadores de la salud quienes están luchando por un contrato sindical en Vermont han acudido a la mesa de negociaciones no solo con sus propias demandas de plantillas suficientes y salarios justos, sino también con una petición algo inusual: una planteada en solidaridad con trabajadores lecheros en el estado. Quieren que su empleador, el Centro Médico de la Universidad de Vermont, se una al programa “Leche con Dignidad”.

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