America After 9/11: 25 Years of Fear, War, Surveillance and Permanent Emergency
The attacks killed 2,977 people and set off wars, surveillance expansion and a lasting erosion of trust in government and institutions.
- On the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the United States faces a transformed political landscape defined by fragmentation and distrust. The nation has shifted from collective vulnerability to a culture shaped by fear and endless conflict.
- Total U.S. military spending has exceeded $21 trillion over the past 25 years, surpassing the combined spending of the other 18 largest military powers. Weapons companies received billions in government cash that could have funded housing, healthcare, or climate resilience instead.
- Brown University's Costs of War project estimates the total death toll from post-9/11 conflicts at between 4.5 and 4.7 million lives. This figure includes indirect deaths from disease and destruction of health and water systems across war zones.
- Surveillance apparatuses normalized by the Patriot Act never disappeared; they have been redirected toward domestic targets including immigrants and protesters. Congress has failed to enact significant reform, leaving citizens navigating a political world shaped by decisions made in 2001.
- Voters face a choice to reject endless war spending, according to Rep. Barbara Lee, the lone dissenter against 2001's war authorization. She argues for prioritizing domestic needs like education and healthcare over the bloated military machine dominating national policy.
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9/11 legacy: A quarter-century of endless war
Twenty-five years ago, 2,977 people were killed when hijacked planes struck the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. Five years ago, People’s World asked how to measure the two decades of war launched in response. The question still doesn’t have a clean answer, because those wars never really stopped. They simply […]
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“I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in – and the West in general – into an unbearable hell and a choking life.” – Osama bin Laden (October 2001) “GIVE THEM NIGHTMARES.” – President Donald Trump (September 2026)…
America After 9/11: 25 Years of Fear, War, Surveillance and Permanent Emergency - LewRockwell
“I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in — and the West in general — into an unbearable hell and a choking life.”—Osama bin Laden (October 2001) “GIVE THEM NIGHTMARES.”—President Donald Trump (September 2026) Days before the 25th anniversary of 9/11, President Trump flooded his Truth Social account with AI-generated fantasies of himself commanding armies of giant, red-eyed …
Since 2001, Western countries, with the United States in the lead, have continued to strengthen their arsenal in the face of attacks, whether they are criminal and judicial measures, the prison system or mass surveillance tools.
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