As most people within the U.S., and in most of the world probably knows, today, September 11, 2026, is 25 years since the 9/11/2001 incident where planes crashed into the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington D.C. Over 3000 deaths resulted from the incident and 19 individuals from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait were labeled as members of the group al-Queda and accused of orchestrating and carrying out the attacks. The entire capitalist world used the incident as an opportunity to usher in racist, anti-immigrant, fascist policies like the so-called Patriot Act in the U.S. which gave the government further license to label anyone who questioned capitalist policy as a threat. Thousands of people have been and are prosecuted through the Patriot Act and it’s additional layers.
All the above has contributed to the current environment where armed gestapo agents of the U.S. government kidnap and terrorize innocent people on the streets of the U.S., killing people who’s only crime was challenging their fascist behavior. Political discourse in the country normalizes openly racist and xenophobic behaviors and Europeans who exhibit those behaviors like the woman who racially terrorized a young developmentally disabled African child are rewarded with gofundme fundraising worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The xenophobia is financed and encouraged with examples being the anti-Africa sentiment that is found everywhere on social media and the latest incidents happening in Azania (South Africa) where people in that country view themselves as living outside of Africa. This is the primitive world we live in today that will prance around today “commemorating” the 9/11 incident as if the U.S. can ever be an innocent with anything that happens on the world stage.
It’s been 25 years so anyone who hasn’t taken the time to study the 9/11 incident beyond emotionalism and anecdotal chirping is someone who really isn’t interested in understanding how these things happen in real life. We won’t spend time recounting all the ill refutable facts, but we will remind people of some things that must always be remembered. The people the Western capitalist world accused of being the masterminds behind this al-Queda organization, including Osama bin Laden who the capitalist intelligence agencies labeled the leader, were all people trained by the Western capitalist militaries to wage war against the former Soviet Union backed government in Afghanistan in the 1970s. The Jimmy Carter regime had the vision of recreating a Vietnam type war for the Soviet Union which would drain Soviet resources and that strategy was an effective one. Meanwhile, bin Laden and others learned the necessary military tactics along with acquiring relevant military equipment.
In 2026, we are not prepared to say confidently that the U.S. completely staged the 9/11 incidents, but we say without stuttering that the U.S. certainly was a contributor. Some of the evidence is impossible to ignore. The business relationship between the George W. Bush family and other U.S. capitalist families and the Saudi Binladen Group – one of the largest construction companies in the world – founded by Muhammad bin Laden, Osama’s daddy. The role then Vice President Dick Cheney played as a board member of the Haliburton Corporation. After the U.S. and it’s capitalist lackey countries killed thousands while destroying most of the infrastructure in Iraq and Afghanistan, Haliburton was mysteriously able to swoop in, avoiding the federally mandated bidding process, to sole bid for cleanup in both countries, receiving a much higher bid than the going average (Haliburton played the same role in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005).
We can go on and on, but that’s for you to study on your own. Our point here is that to many dominos fell in place to many capitalist entities for any reasonable person to believe the 9/11 incidents happened as surprise attack against the U.S. In other words, years ago when I was in a discussion about this with a European person, I explained to them that the planes that hit the towers exploded with such intense heat that we were told that the planes disintegrated while we were also told that passports from the so-called hijackers fell 87 floors, remaining intact, which is supposed to be the only evidence confirming their identities. After I made that statement, the person told me “I don’t believe in conspiracy theories” to which I responded that the concept that 19 hijackers carried out these incidents with box cutters is the number one conspiracy theory.
I’ll never forget three things that happened the day of the incidents. I went to work and a number of people who knew of my political activism asked for my opinion of what happened. I was in graduate school at the time so that evening I had class. The professor, a known right wing “thinker” on campus, started the class by asking for comments on the incidents. I was the only African and person of color in the class (as was usually the case). We went around with everyone else expressing the typical sentimental takes; I know people who work in downtown New York, my family is in the military, everybody hates us because they ain’t us.” I went last. I said what I said to which the professor – who had no reason that I’m aware of to know anything my political work – said “you sounded remarkably like Stokely Carmichael with those comments!” My response to him was “thank you!” Lastly, I was so inspired by the exchanges of the day that I went to the house and typed out a statement on the incidents that I copied and started passing out. Eager for any insight that went deeper than the evening news, the piece was a hit. Thousands of copies were made and distributed and keep in mind this was before social media. I received a lot of criticism within my political party for writing that statement. Not over the positions articulated in the piece. Those positions were sound conclusions politically that I still stand by today. The criticisms were because I started out the piece by saying that we had remorse for the loss of life.
Twenty-five years later what all of this means in summary to me today is we should have remorse for loss of life, but not just when it’s life within the U.S. You should have an equal level of remorse when Palestinians are slaughtered. When imperialism stages massacres in Sudan and the Congo. When Indigneous people are dehumanized. When Africans are hung and killed by police/vigilantes. When trafficking and sexual assault is perpetuated. When healthcare is too expensive for people to get the care they deserve to save their lives. When people suffer from malnutrition. When queer people are dehumanized. When education is seen as unnecessary. These and many other things are just cause to grieve. And, it all starts with understanding and accepting that never in its five centuries of development has capitalism ever been an honest and moral system. It absolutely never tells the truth and if you don’t do the required work to learn the truth on your own you will never know the truth. Instead, you will be a pawn for whatever agenda capitalism wishes to use you for, including being cannon fodder for its worthless wars.
Twenty-five years later, while the U.S. rages another stupid war against Iran, my analysis on these events has evolved since 2001. It’s gotten deeper, but structurally, it’s still the same foundation. The U.S. and all capitalist countries are empires built upon and based on exploitation, oppression, and murder. While the people of New York learn today that they were lied to about how unsafe the air was by then mayor Rudy Guiliani (big surprise), those unfortunate souls are forced to deal with the challenges of suffering through that for a last quarter century (not to mention dealing with that in their futures). Most of those people will have to face that reality with limited to no healthcare resources to help, but don’t worry about that. People like us are the real problem, right? So, enjoy the flag waving, the platitudes, the lifted trucks, the false bravado. The crackering and graham crackering. And excuse us if we do as we always do during these false narrative commemorations, ignore them. We have more important work to do.
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All the above has contributed to the current environment where armed gestapo agents of the U.S. government kidnap and terrorize innocent people on the streets of the U.S., killing people who’s only crime was challenging their fascist behavior. Political discourse in the country normalizes openly racist and xenophobic behaviors and Europeans who exhibit those behaviors like the woman who racially terrorized a young developmentally disabled African child are rewarded with gofundme fundraising worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The xenophobia is financed and encouraged with examples being the anti-Africa sentiment that is found everywhere on social media and the latest incidents happening in Azania (South Africa) where people in that country view themselves as living outside of Africa. This is the primitive world we live in today that will prance around today “commemorating” the 9/11 incident as if the U.S. can ever be an innocent with anything that happens on the world stage.
It’s been 25 years so anyone who hasn’t taken the time to study the 9/11 incident beyond emotionalism and anecdotal chirping is someone who really isn’t interested in understanding how these things happen in real life. We won’t spend time recounting all the ill refutable facts, but we will remind people of some things that must always be remembered. The people the Western capitalist world accused of being the masterminds behind this al-Queda organization, including Osama bin Laden who the capitalist intelligence agencies labeled the leader, were all people trained by the Western capitalist militaries to wage war against the former Soviet Union backed government in Afghanistan in the 1970s. The Jimmy Carter regime had the vision of recreating a Vietnam type war for the Soviet Union which would drain Soviet resources and that strategy was an effective one. Meanwhile, bin Laden and others learned the necessary military tactics along with acquiring relevant military equipment.
In 2026, we are not prepared to say confidently that the U.S. completely staged the 9/11 incidents, but we say without stuttering that the U.S. certainly was a contributor. Some of the evidence is impossible to ignore. The business relationship between the George W. Bush family and other U.S. capitalist families and the Saudi Binladen Group – one of the largest construction companies in the world – founded by Muhammad bin Laden, Osama’s daddy. The role then Vice President Dick Cheney played as a board member of the Haliburton Corporation. After the U.S. and it’s capitalist lackey countries killed thousands while destroying most of the infrastructure in Iraq and Afghanistan, Haliburton was mysteriously able to swoop in, avoiding the federally mandated bidding process, to sole bid for cleanup in both countries, receiving a much higher bid than the going average (Haliburton played the same role in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005).
We can go on and on, but that’s for you to study on your own. Our point here is that to many dominos fell in place to many capitalist entities for any reasonable person to believe the 9/11 incidents happened as surprise attack against the U.S. In other words, years ago when I was in a discussion about this with a European person, I explained to them that the planes that hit the towers exploded with such intense heat that we were told that the planes disintegrated while we were also told that passports from the so-called hijackers fell 87 floors, remaining intact, which is supposed to be the only evidence confirming their identities. After I made that statement, the person told me “I don’t believe in conspiracy theories” to which I responded that the concept that 19 hijackers carried out these incidents with box cutters is the number one conspiracy theory.
I’ll never forget three things that happened the day of the incidents. I went to work and a number of people who knew of my political activism asked for my opinion of what happened. I was in graduate school at the time so that evening I had class. The professor, a known right wing “thinker” on campus, started the class by asking for comments on the incidents. I was the only African and person of color in the class (as was usually the case). We went around with everyone else expressing the typical sentimental takes; I know people who work in downtown New York, my family is in the military, everybody hates us because they ain’t us.” I went last. I said what I said to which the professor – who had no reason that I’m aware of to know anything my political work – said “you sounded remarkably like Stokely Carmichael with those comments!” My response to him was “thank you!” Lastly, I was so inspired by the exchanges of the day that I went to the house and typed out a statement on the incidents that I copied and started passing out. Eager for any insight that went deeper than the evening news, the piece was a hit. Thousands of copies were made and distributed and keep in mind this was before social media. I received a lot of criticism within my political party for writing that statement. Not over the positions articulated in the piece. Those positions were sound conclusions politically that I still stand by today. The criticisms were because I started out the piece by saying that we had remorse for the loss of life.
Twenty-five years later what all of this means in summary to me today is we should have remorse for loss of life, but not just when it’s life within the U.S. You should have an equal level of remorse when Palestinians are slaughtered. When imperialism stages massacres in Sudan and the Congo. When Indigneous people are dehumanized. When Africans are hung and killed by police/vigilantes. When trafficking and sexual assault is perpetuated. When healthcare is too expensive for people to get the care they deserve to save their lives. When people suffer from malnutrition. When queer people are dehumanized. When education is seen as unnecessary. These and many other things are just cause to grieve. And, it all starts with understanding and accepting that never in its five centuries of development has capitalism ever been an honest and moral system. It absolutely never tells the truth and if you don’t do the required work to learn the truth on your own you will never know the truth. Instead, you will be a pawn for whatever agenda capitalism wishes to use you for, including being cannon fodder for its worthless wars.
Twenty-five years later, while the U.S. rages another stupid war against Iran, my analysis on these events has evolved since 2001. It’s gotten deeper, but structurally, it’s still the same foundation. The U.S. and all capitalist countries are empires built upon and based on exploitation, oppression, and murder. While the people of New York learn today that they were lied to about how unsafe the air was by then mayor Rudy Guiliani (big surprise), those unfortunate souls are forced to deal with the challenges of suffering through that for a last quarter century (not to mention dealing with that in their futures). Most of those people will have to face that reality with limited to no healthcare resources to help, but don’t worry about that. People like us are the real problem, right? So, enjoy the flag waving, the platitudes, the lifted trucks, the false bravado. The crackering and graham crackering. And excuse us if we do as we always do during these false narrative commemorations, ignore them. We have more important work to do.
ere to edit.
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