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On 25th Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks, Condemnation of Global âWar on Terrorâ That Has Killed Millions
International human rights campaigners, United Nations experts, journalists, and anti-war activists marked the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US by paying tributes to the thousands of lives lost on that day while condemning what followed: an unparalleled expansion of state surveillance, crackdowns on dissent, arbitrary detention, torture, and catastrophic wars that cost trillions of dollars and millions of lives.
Mourning the lasting impact of âthose horrific acts of violenceâ perpetrated in the US a quarter-century ago, a group of more than 40 UN experts said in a joint statement on Friday that âwe equally acknowledge the millions of other victims worldwide of terrorist attacks, excessive counter-terrorism responses, and conflicts in the name of countering terrorism.â
Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen: Calculating the Millions-High Death Toll of Americaâs Post-9/11 Wars
(26.4.2018)
As Barbara Lee presciently warned her colleagues before she cast her lone dissenting vote in 2001, we have âbecome the evil we deplore.â But these wars have not been accompanied by fearsome military parades (not yet) or speeches about conquering the world. Instead they have been politically justified by âinformation warfareâ to demonize enemies and fabricate crises, and then waged in a âdisguised, quiet, media freeâ way, to hide their cost in human blood from the American public and the world.
After 16 years of war, about 6 million violent deaths, 6 countries utterly destroyed and many more destabilized, it is urgent that the American public come to terms with the true human cost of our countryâs wars and how we have been manipulated and misled into turning a blind eye to them â before they go on even longer, destroy more countries, further undermine the rule of international law and kill millions more of our fellow human beings.
‚Everything changed‘: The human cost of 25 years of US wars
Less than a month after 9/11, the US invaded Afghanistan, launching what President George W Bush called the âWar on Terrorâ – a series of seemingly endless wars and military campaigns spanning Afghanistan, Iraq and countries across the Middle East, South Asia and Africa.
According to the Cost of War project at Brown Universityâs Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs estimates that US-led wars since 2001 have directly or indirectly killed an estimated 4.5 to 4.7 million people – including approximately 940,000 direct deaths and 3.6 to 3.8 million indirect deaths from disease, malnutrition and health complications.
EU fails to agree on sanctions on Israelâs far-right minister Ben-Gvir
EU foreign ministers have failed to agree on sanctions against Israelâs far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, the blocâs foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says.
âMany member states have also proposed to sanction Minister Ben-Gvir, but no consensus on that was reached,â Kallas said.
The Miller Doctrine
(May 27, 2026)
Yet proposals that skirt the edges of international law didnât come out of nowhere. The U.S. under George W. Bush created legal mechanisms following the September 11th attacks to torture hundreds of people in CIA black sites and then at Guantanamo Bay. The Obama administrationâs targeted drone strikes were assassinations by another name. The Biden administration further eroded international norms and subverted its own policies by financing Israelâs genocide in Gaza, in violation of the Leahy Law, which prohibits foreign military assistance to nations that violate human rights.
âSeems like Miller is sort of taking what he was already willing to do during the first term and then combining that with what Israel has been doing in the way it has just been completely ignoring any kind of international law, Geneva Conventions, any of it in its conduct in Gaza and Lebanon, to then influence U.S. foreign policy,â Annelle Sheline, a research fellow in the Middle East program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, said in an interview.
In other words, Miller and the Trump administration have been able to steamroll what was left of international law; they just had to figure out how to do it.
âWhy are we talking about this?â: Democrats are furious that the Bidens wonât go away
Democrats want to move on from 2024. The Bidens wonât let them.
The Empire Is Losing Its Ability To Hide Its Ugly Nature
Garicanoâs entire worldview depends on his ability to avoid recognizing the obvious truth: that the so-called âextreme leftâ has always been correct, and that the empire he worships has always been evil. Itâs just having a harder and harder time masking its true nature, because of the very evils it has tried to conceal.
Everythingâs becoming more and more revealed. More and more transparent. What was once done solely by whistleblowers, investigative journalists, activists and dissident media is now being done by the empire itself, because thereâs only so long you can hide the truth about something so malignant. An empire that is held together by lies, corruption and endless slaughter was never going to remain unseen. The brutality necessary to dominate the planet had to come out into the light eventually.
âMay all be revealedâ has been my prayer for our world for many years now. That dearly held wish is now being answered, and the truth is looking every bit as ugly as expected.
May all be revealed. May all that is hidden become seen. In the empire. In our governments. In our culture. In our community. In our interpersonal relationships. In ourselves.
Many of us, liberal Europeans, spent decades pushing back against the European extreme left‘s cartoon version of America ( it‘s all oil/ imperialism/getting rich at the expense of others) and then one dumb administration walks in and performs the caricature to perfection.
(March 31, 2026)
Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen: Calculating the Millions-High Death Toll of Americaâs Post-9/11 Wars
(26.4.2018)
As Barbara Lee presciently warned her colleagues before she cast her lone dissenting vote in 2001, we have âbecome the evil we deplore.â But these wars have not been accompanied by fearsome military parades (not yet) or speeches about conquering the world. Instead they have been politically justified by âinformation warfareâ to demonize enemies and fabricate crises, and then waged in a âdisguised, quiet, media freeâ way, to hide their cost in human blood from the American public and the world.
After 16 years of war, about 6 million violent deaths, 6 countries utterly destroyed and many more destabilized, it is urgent that the American public come to terms with the true human cost of our countryâs wars and how we have been manipulated and misled into turning a blind eye to them â before they go on even longer, destroy more countries, further undermine the rule of international law and kill millions more of our fellow human beings.
Iraq conflict has killed a million, says survey
(January 30, 2008)
The margin of error in the survey, conducted in August and September 2007, was 1.7 percent, giving a range of deaths of 946,258 to 1.12 million.
ORB originally found that 1.2 million people had died, but decided to go back and conduct more research in rural areas to make the survey as comprehensive as possible and then came up with the revised figure.
Survey Puts Iraqi War Dead Above One Million
(September 18, 2007)
The British polling agency ORB has released a new survey of Iraqis that suggests that more than one million Iraqis have been killed since the war began. One surprising finding from the study was that most of the estimated 1.2 million deaths were the result of a gun shot, not car bomb.
How many countries has the US bombed since 2001, and how much has it cost?
(March 3, 2026)
In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks, President George W Bush launched what he called a âwar on terrorâ, a global military campaign that reshaped US foreign policy and triggered wars, invasions and air strikes across numerous countries.
According to an analysis by Brown Universityâs Watson Institute of International & Public Affairs, US-led wars since 2001 have directly caused the deaths of about 940,000 people across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and other conflict zones
Trump Says Wars Can Be Fought âForeverâ With âVirtually Unlimitedâ Weapons Stockpiles
In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote: âThe United States Munitions Stockpiles have, at the medium and upper medium grade, never been higher or better.â
The president then claimed the U.S. has âa virtually unlimited supply of these weapons,â and added âWars can be fought âforever,â and very successfully, using just these supplies.â
Trump: the Frankensteinâs monster of imperialism
Trumpâs brand of gangster imperialism is at its most reckless. This attack is about regime change, but regime change by bombing has never succeeded. The history of the last 25 years is strewn with examples of supposedly bringing peace and democracy at the end of an American missile, and every time it has failed: in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, it has brought much greater death and destruction and created chaos and civil war â and ended in US defeat. In Syria, the new government is compliant with the US, but that took a decade and a half of civil war and bombing for the US to achieve and has left the country divided and wrecked. They will not care if Iran suffers the same fate.
The idea that the state responsible for a genocide in Gaza, aligned with one that has the overwhelming advantage in military power anywhere in the world, and has invaded far more countries than any other, is going to do anything to improve the lives of Iranians, would be an absolutely sick joke if it were not so dangerous. The assassination of Khamenei is in breach of international law, as was the Maduro kidnap.
Secretary of State Calls on European Leaders to Defend Western Civilization in Munich Security Conference Speech
âIn a perfect world, all of these problems and more would be solved by diplomats and strongly worded resolutions. But we do not live in a perfect world, and we cannot continue to allow those who blatantly and openly threaten our citizens and endanger our global stability to shield themselves behind abstractions of international law which they themselves routinely violate. This is the path that President Trump and the United States has embarked upon. It is the path we ask you here in Europe to join us on.â
âThe United Nations still has tremendous potential to be a tool for good in the world. But we cannot ignore that today, on the most pressing matters before us, it has no answers and has played virtually no role. It could not solve the war in Gaza. Instead, it was American leadership that freed captives from barbarians and brought about a fragile truce. It had not solved the war in Ukraine. It took American leadership and partnership with many of the countries here today just to bring the two sides to the table in search of a still-elusive peace. It was powerless to constrain the nuclear program of radical Shia clerics in Tehran. That required 14 bombs dropped with precision from American B-2 bombers. And it was unable to address the threat to our security from a narcoterrorist dictator in Venezuela. Instead, it took American Special Forces to bring this fugitive to justice.â
Marco Rubio‘s shocking MSC remark: „The UN has no answers â bombers deliver results“
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a stark message at the Munich Security Conference, dismissing the United Nations as having „no answers“ for today‘s most urgent crises. Citing Gaza, Ukraine and Iran, Rubio argued that real outcomes come not through international institutions, but through American leadership â and even precision strikes by B-2 bombers.
Rubio says UN has âno roleâ in solving wars, like Gaza; seeks to reassure Europe on Trump
He acknowledged that âwe have bled and died side-by-side on battlefields from Kapyong to Kandahar,â a contrast with disparaging remarks by Trump about NATO alliesâ troops in Afghanistan that drew an outcry. âAnd Iâm here today to make it clear that America is charting the path for a new century of prosperity. and that once again, we want to do it together with you, our cherished allies and our oldest friends.â
Alle wissen, wie der Krieg gegen die Ukraine beendet werden kann
(March 5, 2022)
Dazu ein paar Klarstellungen, weder kurz, noch schmerzlos.
Ich spare mir zu Anfang die ErklĂ€rungen und setze diese unter die konkreten kurzfristigen und langfristigen MaĂnahmen und Bedingungen, mit denen zunĂ€chst der Angriffskrieg der russischen Regierung unter Kommando PrĂ€sident Putins gegen die Ukraine und dann langfristig der Krieg in der Ukraine insgesamt beendet werden kann.
Die MaĂnahmen bzw Bedingungen fĂŒr und in der Ukraine.
â NeutralitĂ€t, also weder Mitgliedschaft im Nordatlantikpakt N.A.T.O., noch in der EuropĂ€ischen Union. Modell Ă€hnlich wie Yugoslawien und Finnland nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg.
â bestimmt nicht demilitarisiert, sondern bis an die ZĂ€hne bewaffnet, allerdings ohne AtomzĂ€hne jedweder Art, weder Entwicklung noch Stationierung
â nach Wahl der ukrainischen Regierungen bzw Parlamentsmehrheiten jeweils Handelspakte und Waffenlieferungen mit bzw durch E.U. und N.A.T.O., Ă€hnlich wie mit der Schweiz oder Schweden.
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Was eine (weitere) verantwortliche, eine rationale, eine solidarische MaĂnahme aus dem WeiĂen Haus wĂ€re, Ă€hnlich wie die ZurĂŒckhaltung was die Provokationen aus dem Kreml angeht: von sich aus auf eine N.A.T.O.-Mitgliedschaft der Ukraine zu verzichten. Neben der Lieferung von Defensivwaffen gĂ€be es nichts Besseres, was âder Westenâ derzeit fĂŒr die Ukraine tun kann. Man könnte vielleicht auch verkĂŒnden, man habe sich in den letzten 30 Jahren mit der N.A.T.O. genug gedehnt. Und zwanzig Jahre lang genug ruhmreichen Terrorkrieg gefĂŒhrt. Ein paar Millionen Tote wĂŒrden nun reichen.
Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen: Calculating the Millions-High Death Toll of Americaâs Post-9/11 Wars
(26.4.2018)
As Barbara Lee presciently warned her colleagues before she cast her lone dissenting vote in 2001, we have âbecome the evil we deplore.â But these wars have not been accompanied by fearsome military parades (not yet) or speeches about conquering the world. Instead they have been politically justified by âinformation warfareâ to demonize enemies and fabricate crises, and then waged in a âdisguised, quiet, media freeâ way, to hide their cost in human blood from the American public and the world.
After 16 years of war, about 6 million violent deaths, 6 countries utterly destroyed and many more destabilized, it is urgent that the American public come to terms with the true human cost of our countryâs wars and how we have been manipulated and misled into turning a blind eye to them â before they go on even longer, destroy more countries, further undermine the rule of international law and kill millions more of our fellow human beings.
Dick Cheney may be gone, but the wars he waged are forever
(November 8, 2025)
As Bush‘s vice president, Cheney became a key architect of the US „war on terror“, which included the 2002 invasion of Afghanistan, the 2003 war on Iraq, and sweeping intelligence, surveillance and torture programmes.
Most notoriously, Cheney helped the Bush administration construct an elaborate double lie as a pretext for the invasion of Iraq.
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Cheney‘s true legacy, then, lies not only in the „war on terror“ he helped engineer, but in the political and moral infrastructure he left behind.
More than two decades later, his post-9/11 world order – defined by endless wars, government overreach and impunity – endures, and today‘s war criminals, following in his path, roam free.
Dick Cheney funeral: Guests begin to arrive, Trump and Vance not invited
A polarizing and powerful figure, Cheney worked for four decades in Washington. He served in Congress, was secretary of defense under President George H.W. Bush and then vice president under President George W. Bush.
He played a leading role in the response to the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, including the war on terror and invasion of Iraq.
A funeral for Dick Cheney, and the ‚adults-in-the-room‘ GOP establishment
Cheney and Bush took office under a cloud of controversy after the Supreme Court ended Florida‘s recount during the 2000 presidential election. They left the White House eight years later with the economy collapsing into the Great Recession and two unpopular wars raging.
It was that political landscape that Trump found so amendable to his own outsider campaign in 2016 that helped catapult him from New York real estate and reality TV star into the White House. Along the way, Trump would accuse Bush and Cheney of leading the U.S. into „endless wars.“
Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and the âWar from Withinâ
(October 5, 2025)
Peace abroad and war at home? Itâs an unusual note to strike in an electoral democracy.
Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen: Calculating the Millions-High Death Toll of Americaâs Post-9/11 Wars
(26.4.2018)
As Barbara Lee presciently warned her colleagues before she cast her lone dissenting vote in 2001, we have âbecome the evil we deplore.â But these wars have not been accompanied by fearsome military parades (not yet) or speeches about conquering the world. Instead they have been politically justified by âinformation warfareâ to demonize enemies and fabricate crises, and then waged in a âdisguised, quiet, media freeâ way, to hide their cost in human blood from the American public and the world.
After 16 years of war, about 6 million violent deaths, 6 countries utterly destroyed and many more destabilized, it is urgent that the American public come to terms with the true human cost of our countryâs wars and how we have been manipulated and misled into turning a blind eye to them â before they go on even longer, destroy more countries, further undermine the rule of international law and kill millions more of our fellow human beings.
Mit dem Krieg gegen den Terror hat der Westen das Völkerrecht ausgehebelt
Der 11. September lieferte den USA den Vorwand, geopolitische Interessen unter dem Deckmantel der Terrorabwehr zu verfolgen. Der »War on Terror« fĂŒhrte zu einer gefĂ€hrlichen Erosion des Völkerrechts, die unsere Welt heute prĂ€gt.
Israel in intense war on terror, Netanyahu says at scene of deadly Jerusalem attack
(September 8, 2025)
Netanyahu‘s criminal trial hearings at the Tel Aviv District Court, scheduled for Monday, were canceled after the terror shooting occurred.
The Fictional Mental Illness That Only Affects Enemies Of The Western Empire
But we are asked to believe that this vicious imperial power structure is the only rational actor on earth, and that those who resist its aggressions are the crazy ones.
And you are told that if you canât see this, then youâre crazy too. Youâre a crackpot. A conspiracy theorist. A paranoid nutball whose voice should be marginalized and whose ideas should be dismissed with a scoff.
You are crazy if you donât believe what the worldâs craziest power structure says about its enemies being crazy.
It is gaslighting on a global scale. It is madness, and that is why this civilization has gone mad.
Letâs hope someone finds a way to protect the world from the insanity of the western empire.
Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen: Calculating the Millions-High Death Toll of Americaâs Post-9/11 Wars
(26.4.2018)
As Barbara Lee presciently warned her colleagues before she cast her lone dissenting vote in 2001, we have âbecome the evil we deplore.â But these wars have not been accompanied by fearsome military parades (not yet) or speeches about conquering the world. Instead they have been politically justified by âinformation warfareâ to demonize enemies and fabricate crises, and then waged in a âdisguised, quiet, media freeâ way, to hide their cost in human blood from the American public and the world.
After 16 years of war, about 6 million violent deaths, 6 countries utterly destroyed and many more destabilized, it is urgent that the American public come to terms with the true human cost of our countryâs wars and how we have been manipulated and misled into turning a blind eye to them â before they go on even longer, destroy more countries, further undermine the rule of international law and kill millions more of our fellow human beings.
Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen: Calculating the Millions-High Death Toll of Americaâs Post-9/11 Wars
(26.4.2018)
As Barbara Lee presciently warned her colleagues before she cast her lone dissenting vote in 2001, we have âbecome the evil we deplore.â But these wars have not been accompanied by fearsome military parades (not yet) or speeches about conquering the world. Instead they have been politically justified by âinformation warfareâ to demonize enemies and fabricate crises, and then waged in a âdisguised, quiet, media freeâ way, to hide their cost in human blood from the American public and the world.
After 16 years of war, about 6 million violent deaths, 6 countries utterly destroyed and many more destabilized, it is urgent that the American public come to terms with the true human cost of our countryâs wars and how we have been manipulated and misled into turning a blind eye to them â before they go on even longer, destroy more countries, further undermine the rule of international law and kill millions more of our fellow human beings.
Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen: Calculating the Millions-High Death Toll of Americaâs Post-9/11 Wars
(26.4.2018)
As Barbara Lee presciently warned her colleagues before she cast her lone dissenting vote in 2001, we have âbecome the evil we deplore.â But these wars have not been accompanied by fearsome military parades (not yet) or speeches about conquering the world. Instead they have been politically justified by âinformation warfareâ to demonize enemies and fabricate crises, and then waged in a âdisguised, quiet, media freeâ way, to hide their cost in human blood from the American public and the world.
After 16 years of war, about 6 million violent deaths, 6 countries utterly destroyed and many more destabilized, it is urgent that the American public come to terms with the true human cost of our countryâs wars and how we have been manipulated and misled into turning a blind eye to them â before they go on even longer, destroy more countries, further undermine the rule of international law and kill millions more of our fellow human beings.
Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen: Calculating the Millions-High Death Toll of Americaâs Post-9/11 Wars
(26.4.2018)
Altogether, in the three parts of this report, I have estimated that Americaâs post-9/11 wars have killed about 6 million people. Maybe the true number is only 5 million. Or maybe it is 7 million.