<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"><head><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml><o:OfficeDocumentSettings><o:AllowPNG/><o:PixelsPerInch>96</o:PixelsPerInch></o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yiv9360027231"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_47200"><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_47199"><div dir="ltr" id="yiv9360027231yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_43487" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span id="yiv9360027231yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_44004"><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_50375"><font color="#cd232c" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_50374">Response to WSWS article</font></b></span></div><div id="yiv9360027231yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_43487" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px;"><span id="yiv9360027231yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_43883">Socialism actually could be the best form of government, but not if it is run or influenced by Zionism.</span></div><div id="yiv9360027231yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_43487" dir="ltr" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="yiv9360027231yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_44630">There is an insidious and complex plot by Zionists to <font color="#cd232c" size="5">destroy traditional white culture</font> to further their world revolution goals going back to the Jewish Bolshevik political revolution, that has now been replaced by a cultural revolution...named: <font size="5" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_47526"><font color="#cd232c" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_47889">Cultural Marxism (CM). The response to this attack finds its home in White Nationalism, that utterly </font><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_49823">rejects</i><font color="#cd232c" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_47978"> NeoNazism</font></font></span></div><div id="yiv9360027231yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_43487" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px;" dir="ltr"><span id="yiv9360027231yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_45274">Zionists and all major Jewish organizations promote immigration, political correctness, diversity, multiculturalism...it is part of their tactic (Cultural Marxism) to gain more power and promote their revolution. It's a very difficult concept to grasp, but once you see the evidence you'll never go back. </span></div><div id="yiv9360027231yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_43487" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px;" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_50975">The immigration crisis in Europe is a direct result of Zionists/Israeli organizations along with George Soros, Clinton, Obama in the creation of ISIS and the fraudulent Syrian/Libyan wars.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv9360027231yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_43487" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px;"><span id="yiv9360027231yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_43951">See my conference session <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv9360027231enhancr2_e038b0a6-7eaf-db1c-1fec-59fab00f6651" id="yiv9360027231yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_44181" target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zjY7b5e8sw">Midwest 9/11 Truth Conference 2: Session 14: Stephen Francis, "9/11 and Cultural Marxism"</a></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv9360027231yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_43487" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_51957"><font size="5" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_51956">Prof. Kevin McDonald</font></b>, one of the speakers in our Academic Freedom Conference is actually one of the founders and a principles in the political movement that exposes the Zionist element of Cultural Marxism. </div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv9360027231yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_43487" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px;">He is fully aware of all the ramifications of the NeoNazi accusations and responds with scientific, rational and coherent counter arguments.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv9360027231yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_43487"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_B._MacDonald" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_48746">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_B._MacDonald</a> Prof Kevin McDonald is also one of eight directors of the <font size="5" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_51497"><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_51496">American Freedom Party</b></font> and is the main source of academic thought on what I've mentioned above.<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv9360027231yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_43487"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Freedom_Party" class="enhancr2_89d4285e-d970-586e-e14d-d6902e1f458b" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_50175">American Freedom Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv9360027231yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_43487"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv9360027231yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_43487"><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_51681"><font size="5" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_51680">Zionists murdered nearly 3000 people on 9/11 as a component of their Cultural Marxism plan.</font></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_50216"><br></div><div id="enhancr2_89d4285e-d970-586e-e14d-d6902e1f458b" class="yahoo-link-enhancr-card ymail-preserve-class ymail-preserve-style" style="max-width:400px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" contenteditable="false" data-url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Freedom_Party" data-type="yenhancr" data-category="article" data-embed-url="" data-size="medium" dir="ltr"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Freedom_Party" style="text-decoration:none !important; color: #000 !important;" class="yahoo-enhancr-cardlink" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_50197"> <table class="card-wrapper yahoo-ignore-table" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="max-width:400px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_50196"> 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style="font-size:11px;line-height:15px;color:#999;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_47488">Professor of Psychology at California Long Beach and author of the book "Culture of Critique", Profess...</div> </td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="text-align:right;padding:16px 12px 16px 0;"> </td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table> </a></div><div id="yiv9360027231yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_45042" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px;"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv9360027231yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_43487" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px;"><span><br clear="none"></span></div> <div class="yiv9360027231qtdSeparateBR" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473670410949_47366"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv9360027231yqt8446065019" 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Events this week - two re #NoDAPL opposing Dakota Access oil<br clear="none"> pipeline (#NoDAPL) (Stuart Levy)<br clear="none"> 2. 9/11 and all that is yet to come..... (Karen Aram)<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">----------------------------------------------------------------------<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Message: 1<br clear="none">Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 23:54:22 -0500<br clear="none">From: Stuart Levy <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:stuartnlevy@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:stuartnlevy@gmail.com">stuartnlevy@gmail.com</a>><br clear="none">To: Peace <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:peace@anti-war.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:peace@anti-war.net">peace@anti-war.net</a>><br clear="none">Cc: Peace Discuss <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:peace-discuss@anti-war.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:peace-discuss@anti-war.net">peace-discuss@anti-war.net</a>>, occupycu<br clear="none"> <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:OccupyCU@lists.chambana.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:OccupyCU@lists.chambana.net">OccupyCU@lists.chambana.net</a>><br clear="none">Subject: [Peace-discuss] Events this week - two re #NoDAPL opposing<br clear="none"> Dakota Access oil pipeline (#NoDAPL)<br clear="none">Message-ID: <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:7578850b-1754-0de3-38b3-b1fb28abb045@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:7578850b-1754-0de3-38b3-b1fb28abb045@gmail.com">7578850b-1754-0de3-38b3-b1fb28abb045@gmail.com</a>><br clear="none">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Upcoming events - including **two** related to the Dakota Access Oil<br clear="none">Pipeline, on Mon 9/12 (6:30 Urbana), and on Fri 9/16 (5pm Champaign).<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The Friday 5pm Scott Park (Champaign) event is Native-led and organized,<br clear="none">in solidarity with the Standing Rock water protectors in North Dakota,<br clear="none">where thousands of Native people are assembled in peaceful opposition to<br clear="none">the Dakota Access Pipeline. Hope you can attend, and please let others<br clear="none">know.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Hope too: at 6:30pm Wednesday 9/14, please come watch Naomi Klein's film<br clear="none">"This Changes Everything", on climate change and citizen action. <br clear="none">Discussion to follow, including brief popup talks by several groups you<br clear="none">can get involved with.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Though not strictly anti-war events, they lie at the intersection of<br clear="none">anticolonialism, the global geopolitics of energy, and the importance of<br clear="none">popular resistance.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Summary:<br clear="none">Mon 9/12, 6:30pm, Urbana City Council Chambers, 400 S. Vine St, Urbana<br clear="none"> Urge Urbana City Council to *oppose **Dakota Access Pipeline (#NoDAPL)*<br clear="none"> Gather at City building at 6:30; Council meeting begins at 7. <br clear="none">Organized by Robert Naiman.<br clear="none"> <br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://actionnetwork.org/events/nodapl-action-at-urbana-city-council-meeting?referrer=sierra-club">https://actionnetwork.org/events/nodapl-action-at-urbana-city-council-meeting?referrer=sierra-club</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Wed 9/14, 6:30pm-9pm, Channing-Murray Foundation, 1209 W. Oregon, Urbana<br clear="none"> "This Changes Everything" film & discussion, with popup talks by<br clear="none">*groups you can get involved with*<br clear="none"> Film by Naomi Klein, on climate change and citizen action<br clear="none"> <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/329641967375716/">https://www.facebook.com/events/329641967375716/</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Fri 9/16, noon-1pm, University YMCA (Friday Forum), 1001 S. Wright St.,<br clear="none">Champaign<br clear="none"> "Politics of Climate Change in Illinois", talk by Jen Walling, IL<br clear="none">Environmental Council<br clear="none"> <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1047884435309318/">https://www.facebook.com/events/1047884435309318/</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Fri 9/16, 5-7pm, Scott Park, Champaign (between 2nd & 3rd Sts, between<br clear="none">Springfield and Healey)<br clear="none"> "In Solidarity with Standing Rock, the Earth, and all People, we<br clear="none">will gather as Protectors in Peace at Scott Park in Champaign, IL"<br clear="none"> Vigil/rally solidarity with the Standing Rock water protectors,<br clear="none">peacefully opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline.<br clear="none"> Organized by local Native people. Everyone is welcome.<br clear="none"> <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1787572761459012/">https://www.facebook.com/events/1787572761459012/</a><br clear="none"> <br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">==================================================<br clear="none">==================================================<br clear="none">More details on the above --><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Mon 9/12, 6:30pm, Urbana City Council Chambers, 400 S. Vine St, Urbana<br clear="none"> #NoDAPL -- Come urge the Urbana City Council to adopt a resolution<br clear="none">saying that they oppose the Dakota Access Oil Pipeline, and calling on<br clear="none">the Obama Administration to ask the Corps of Engineers to revoke its<br clear="none">construction permit. This pipeline, running through the Dakotas, Iowa<br clear="none">and into Illinois, would carry over a half million barrels per day of<br clear="none">North Dakota Bakken crude oil - running through Native American lands,<br clear="none">and putting major waterways at risk. More below, or sign up to say<br clear="none">you're coming:<br clear="none"> <br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://actionnetwork.org/events/nodapl-action-at-urbana-city-council-meeting?referrer=sierra-club">https://actionnetwork.org/events/nodapl-action-at-urbana-city-council-meeting?referrer=sierra-club</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Wed 9/14, 6:30pm-9pm, Channing-Murray Foundation, 1209 W. Oregon, Urbana<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> Free and open to the public - Refreshments will be served. <br clear="none"> Followed by discussion & avenues for action.<br clear="none"> <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/329641967375716/">https://www.facebook.com/events/329641967375716/</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"> Inspired by Naomi Klein’s book, "This Changes Everything: Capitalism<br clear="none"> vs. the Climate," this film presents seven powerful portraits of<br clear="none"> communities on the front lines of the climate crisis, and Klein<br clear="none"> contends that "we can seize the existential crisis of climate change<br clear="none"> to transform our failed economic system into something radically<br clear="none"> better."<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> Please join us to call attention to the most important environmental<br clear="none"> issue of our time.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> A short trailer and more information about the film is here:<br clear="none"> <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://thefilm.thischangeseverything.org/about">http://thefilm.thischangeseverything.org/about</a><br clear="none"> <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fthefilm.thischangeseverything.org%2Fabout&h=3AQEf-AHo&enc=AZNpUujpM_o-XhI3BUHp5ILV-CtrzD8p2sEEQTaucNFT_4dcVf059Mj6Lw7Tjg4E9TQ&s=1">http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fthefilm.thischangeseverything.org%2Fabout&h=3AQEf-AHo&enc=AZNpUujpM_o-XhI3BUHp5ILV-CtrzD8p2sEEQTaucNFT_4dcVf059Mj6Lw7Tjg4E9TQ&s=1</a>><br clear="none"><br clear="none"> Thanks to our cosponsors! Channing-Murray Foundation, Students for<br clear="none"> Environmental Concerns (SECS), Eco-Justice Collaborative, Faith In<br clear="none"> Place, Social Action Committee/Green UUs of the<br clear="none"> Unitarian-Universalist Church of Urbana-Champaign, IL Environmental<br clear="none"> Council, WATCH (We’re Against Toxic Chemicals), Just Foreign Policy,<br clear="none"> AWARE, C-U Friends Meeting, University YMCA, Wesley Methodist Church<br clear="none"> Green Team, Central IL Chapter of Jobs with Justice, Prairie Rivers<br clear="none"> Network, Champaign County Health Care Consumers.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Fri 9/16, 5-7pm, Scott Park, Champaign (between 2nd & 3rd Sts, between<br clear="none">Springfield and Healey)<br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1787572761459012/">https://www.facebook.com/events/1787572761459012/</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"> In Solidarity with Standing Rock, the Earth, and all People, we will<br clear="none"> gather as Protectors in Peace at Scott Park in Champaign, IL on<br clear="none"> Friday, September 16th from 5:00pm-7:00pm.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> This event is Native-organized. We ask our entire community to join<br clear="none"> us, but honor our request for this to be a Native-led and<br clear="none"> Indigenous-centered space. To that end, we’ll begin with a schedule<br clear="none"> of Indigenous speakers, followed by an open mic for all those<br clear="none"> joining us in solidarity. Community, please join us. In our<br clear="none"> tradition, all our children are our children. Everyone belongs here.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> OVERVIEW OF WHAT IS HAPPENING and OUR CALL TO ACTION:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> Thousands of Native Americans from over 100 tribes are campedon the<br clear="none"> banks of the Cannonball River in North Dakota near the Standing Rock<br clear="none"> Sioux (Dakota/Lakota) Reservation in a peaceful attempt to halt<br clear="none"> construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, a 1200 mile long<br clear="none"> pipeline running from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota to<br clear="none"> southern Illinois. The protesters tell us that the pipeline is<br clear="none"> desecrating land sacred to the Standing Rock Sioux and putting<br clear="none"> critical water supplies at risk of contamination. Over Labor Day<br clear="none"> weekend, security guards for the pipeline’s owners used attack dogs<br clear="none"> and pepper spray against protesters in a manner reminiscent of civil<br clear="none"> rights protests in the 1960s. On September 8, the governor of North<br clear="none"> Dakota called in the National Guard to provide backup to local law<br clear="none"> enforcement against the protesters. Mainstream media coverage of<br clear="none"> these events has been extremely sparse to date, and most news is<br clear="none"> being transmitted via social media.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> This situation lends clarity to a remarkable array of issues we need<br clear="none"> to be able to think about, including caring for our beautiful planet<br clear="none"> Earth and all of the people and other creatures who share it. The<br clear="none"> events in North Dakota are an extraordinary example both of<br clear="none"> capitalist institutions aligned against pro-human, pro-environmental<br clear="none"> interests, and the 21st century model of how genocide is aimed at<br clear="none"> Indigenous peoples. This is not a time to stay silent or passive to<br clear="none"> determine what we do. Come and join the movement instead!<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-------------- next part --------------<br clear="none">An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br clear="none">URL: <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/attachments/20160911/c40b8e2b/attachment-0001.html">http://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/attachments/20160911/c40b8e2b/attachment-0001.html</a>><br clear="none"><br clear="none">------------------------------<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Message: 2<br clear="none">Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 12:31:37 +0000<br clear="none">From: Karen Aram <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:karenaram@hotmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:karenaram@hotmail.com">karenaram@hotmail.com</a>><br clear="none">To: "<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.net">peace-discuss@lists.net</a>" <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.net">peace-discuss@lists.net</a>>, Peace Discuss<br clear="none"> <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:peace-discuss@anti-war.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:peace-discuss@anti-war.net">peace-discuss@anti-war.net</a>><br clear="none">Subject: [Peace-discuss] 9/11 and all that is yet to come.....<br clear="none">Message-ID:<br clear="none"> <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:CY1PR15MB0347822B56E9CD11F341CA39A3FF0@CY1PR15MB0347.namprd15.prod.outlook.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:CY1PR15MB0347822B56E9CD11F341CA39A3FF0@CY1PR15MB0347.namprd15.prod.outlook.com">CY1PR15MB0347822B56E9CD11F341CA39A3FF0@CY1PR15MB0347.namprd15.prod.outlook.com</a>><br clear="none"> <br clear="none">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"<br clear="none"><br clear="none">This article captures my opinion on 9/11 and all that has followed and all that is yet to come.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">No response required, no discussion desired, only food for thought:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Fifteen years since the 9/11 attacks<br clear="none">12 September 2016<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Yesterday marked the fifteenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 that killed more than 2,900 people in the United States. Nineteen supporters of Al Qaeda, 15 of them from Saudi Arabia, like the group’s founder Osama bin Laden, hijacked four airliners. They crashed two planes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, demolishing them; one into the Pentagon building in Washington; and plunged the other into a field in Pennsylvania to prevent passengers retaking control of the aircraft.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The horrific mass murder of thousands of civilians was not only a criminal act. It was, from a political standpoint, reactionary. It served the interests of American and world imperialism. The ruling classes in the United States, Europe and, indeed, throughout the world, exploited the horror and confusion that followed the attack to legitimize perpetual war and ever-expanding attacks on democratic rights.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The “war on terror,” proclaimed by the Bush administration in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, has been based, from the start, on misinformation and outright lies. The administration declared that the United States was engaged in a life-and-death struggle against Al Qaeda. Fifteen years later, it is a basic and undisputable fact that Al Qaeda is a key ally of the United States in the far-flung military operations being conducted by the CIA, above all in Syria.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The “war on terror” was invoked to justify attacks on Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and Yemen—countries that had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11. The death toll numbers in the millions. The devastation of the region is a principal factor in the greatest refugee crisis since World War II, with over 60 million displaced persons seeking sanctuary.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">A decade and a half after September 11, 2001, it is clear that the events of that day were no more the cause of the wars that followed than the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June 1914 was the real cause of the outbreak of World War I.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The US government has never attempted to explain how and why the “war on terror” has morphed into a conflict with the larger geostrategic rivals of the United States, particularly Russia and China, which threatens to unleash World War III.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">One of the most remarkable facts of the 9/11 attacks is that, despite their central role in the foreign and domestic policy of the United States for fifteen years, there has never been a serious and credible investigation of what actually took place. The US intelligence agencies had ample warning of the impending attacks, had kept many of the perpetrators under active surveillance, and had longstanding ties to Osama bin Laden and his network, which was formed out of the CIA-orchestrated guerrilla warfare in Afghanistan during the 1980s against the Soviet-backed regime then in power in Kabul.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">No government official has ever been held accountable for what is universally described as a catastrophic intelligence failure. After Pearl Harbor—to which 9/11 is frequently compared—admirals were fired. But not a single official of the vast US military-intelligence complex lost his job after an attack carried out by well-known terrorists, many of them under state surveillance, and two of them actually living in the home of an FBI informant.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Within weeks of the attacks, US and allied military forces implemented long-held plans and invaded Afghanistan, on the pretext that the Islamist Taliban government was harboring bin Laden. The Afghan war has claimed tens of thousands of lives and driven millions from their homes in Afghanistan and north-west Pakistan. It continues to this day, more than five years after bin Laden’s assassination at the safe house where he resided, near a military college in the city of Abbottabad, Pakistan, a key US ally.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Within the United States, the 9/11 attacks became the pretext for intensifying attacks on democratic rights, under conditions of ever-widening social inequality and mounting class antagonisms. The congressional passage of the “Authorization for the Use of Military Force”—which enshrined the illegal doctrine of “preventative war”—gave blanket authority to the White House to attack any state it assessed as a potential threat to the military or economic interests of the American ruling class. This was followed by the passage of the Patriot Act, which created the legal framework for a police state in America.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">In 2002, the Bush White House cited the “war on terror” as justification for CIA rendition and torture and the establishment of an extralegal prison at Guantanamo, Cuba, where prisoners could be held indefinitely, even for life, without any judicial proceeding. This was the corollary to a criminal policy of preventive war all over the world.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The Obama administration, which followed Bush, cited the same rationale for its escalating campaign of drone missile attacks, which targeted thousands for assassination at the orders of the president. Under both administrations, the US intelligence apparatus has been massively built up, systematically spying on the American population, monitoring all telecommunications and the Internet worldwide.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Meanwhile, the pattern of 9/11 has been repeated endlessly, in terrorist attacks from Paris to Brussels to London to Boston. In virtually every case of attacks by Al Qaeda or ISIS operatives or sympathizers, the perpetrators have been known to the security forces. They were free to carry out their bloody work for two reasons: their organizations were doing the bidding of imperialist foreign policy, particularly in Syria; and their atrocities confuse and stampede public opinion behind war, enabling the buildup of the forces of state repression, to be used against the working class.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The real motivation behind the response to 9/11 was not retaliation for the terrorist attacks. It was the establishment of a direct US military footprint in the heart of Central Asia and US dominance over the Middle East, the key oil-producing region of the globe. The result over the past 15 years has been the vast destabilization of international relations and the emergence of open US war preparations against China—the state Washington perceives as its greatest rival in Asia—along with escalating tensions with Russia, which is viewed as a threat to American dominance in both Central Asia and Europe.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">As David North wrote in his Preface to the volume, A Quarter Century of War: The US Drive for Global Hegemony 1990–2016: “The last quarter century of US-instigated wars must be studied as a chain of interconnected events. The strategic logic of the US drive for global hegemony extends beyond the neocolonial operations in the Middle East and Africa. The ongoing regional wars are component elements of the rapidly escalating confrontation of the United States with Russia and China.”<br clear="none"><br clear="none">In Eastern Europe, NATO forces are mobilizing for military confrontation with Russia, whether in the Baltic States, Ukraine, the Black Sea or the Caucasus. The same type of media campaign used to demonize Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi and Assad, in preparation for their US-backed overthrow, is now being directed at Russian President Vladimir Putin. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is leading the charge, accusing Putin of cyber-sabotage of the US elections and attacking Republican Donald Trump as a Putin stooge.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">In Asia, the Obama administration launched the US “pivot” to the region in 2011, redeploying the majority of US naval and air forces to battle stations where they can strike at China. The US Navy is conducting provocative “freedom of navigation” exercises against Chinese-held islets in the South China Sea, while Washington is encouraging Japanese militarism and threatening North Korea.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Whatever government comes to power in the United States as a result of the November 8 election, whether headed by Clinton or Trump, will continue and escalate the program of militarism, attacks on democratic rights, and economic austerity directed against the working class. The same agenda is being pursued by all the imperialist powers. That is all that the capitalist system, dominated by global economic and political crisis, has to offer.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The only alternative is the international mobilization of the working class, on the basis of a socialist and antiwar program, under the leadership of the International Committee of the Fourth International. 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