Bush & Cheney have gotten away with lying us into two wars & wildly enriching their friends; meanwhile, more people are dead & the media won't even ask the right questions. Will we ever learn?

The big question in the media today is, "Will Afghanistan again become a 'breeding ground' for terrorists who may again attack America?" It's the wrong question.

We've all heard that question asked, in a dozen variations, probably a hundred times in the past few months in the media. And it's not just the wrong question: it strengthens the GOP frame that lets George W. Bush off the hook for many of his worst failures and crimes.

Afghanistan had little to nothing to do with 9/11.

It's time to put this tired and deceptive canard to bed. The 9/11 attacks were not planned, hatched, developed, funded, practiced, expanded, worked out or otherwise devised in Afghanistan. That country and its leadership in 2001, in fact, had pretty much nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11.

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-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "Afghanistan: The "Big" Media's Question Today Is Wrong & Dangerous" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Timeline: Al-Qaeda: 2 September 1996 - Osama Bin Laden calls on his followers to 'launch a guerrilla war against American forces and expel the infidels from the Arabian Peninsula'" by BBC.

Article: "9/11 Commission Report".

Article: "US military vacates last Saudi base".

Article: "Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield Contracts as of March 2001".

Article: "Text: Osama bin Laden's 1998 interview".

Article: "Full text: bin Laden's 'letter to America'".

Article: "Propaganda: Remember the Kuwaiti babies?" by Lou Marano.

Article: "Bush Rejects Taliban Offer On Bin Laden" by John F. Harris.

Article: "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIS) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Afghanistan crisis: Who are Isis-K?" by Frank Gardner.

Article: "Taliban" by Wikipedia.

Article: "1983 Beirut barracks bombings" October 23, 1983 by Wikipedia.

Article: "United States invasion of Grenada", 25 October 1983 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Transcript: Bin Laden determined to strike in US, August 6, 2001.

Article: "Nayirah (testimony)" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "There's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families." - Margaret Thatcher.

Article: "September 11 attacks" by Wikipedia.

Article: "COVID-19 data is disappearing from state-run dashboards as delta variant surges " by Kaiser Health News.

Video: "'Fight will be over tonight': US President Donald Trump says ISIS will we be wiped out tonight".

Article: "Judge throws out Gov. Ron DeSantis' ban on mask mandates in Florida schools" by John Kennedy.

Article: "Supreme Court shoots down Biden's moratorium on tenant evictions in 6-3 vote" by Julie Gerstein.

Article: "The Eviction Crisis Is a Rental Assistance Crisis" by David Dayen.

Article: "Less Than 10% of $45 Billion Rental Assistance Pot Has Reached Renters in Need" by Maurie Backman.

Article: "Millions Of Tenants Will Be At Risk Of Eviction When The Moratorium Ends This Weekend" by Chris Arnold.

Bible: Matthew 7:3 "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye".

Article: "Marshall Plan" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS, MERS-CoV)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Severe acute respiratory syndrome" (SARS, SARS-CoV-1) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Coronavirus disease 2019" (COVID-19) by Wikipedia.

Article: "The TRIPS Waiver as a recognition of public health concerns in the WTO" by Andrew D. Mitchell, Tania Voon.

Video: Biden/Merkel Showdown Could Stop Next COVID Strain (w/Lori Wallach).

Article: "Letter to President Clinton on Iraq" by PNAC.

Movie: "Vice".

Article: "Spike Lee edits 9/11 conspiracy theorists out of HBO's 'NYC Epicenters' docuseries " by Charles Trepany.

Hour Two: March On For Voting Rights!
- Joe Madison, The Black Eagle, Host-The Joe Madison Show (weekdays 6-10am on SiriusXM ch. 126 Urban View) @MadisonSiriusXM

Article: "Will America's latest redistricting cycle be even worse than the last?" by Sam Levine .

Article: "NEWS: R&B Legend & Radio Host Al B. Sure! and Radio Host & Activist Joe Madison Announced as Co-MC's for August 28 March On for Washington and Voting Rights" by MARCH ON.

Article: "John Lewis Voting Rights Bill Passes House With Zero Republican Votes" by Sharon Zhang.

Article: "Al B. Sure!" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Article: "John C. Calhoun" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Filibuster Was Grounded in Slavery and Now Threatens All Life on Earth" by Thom Hartmann.

Video: Speech By A. Philip Randolph (Live In Washington, D.C., August 28, 1963).

Article: "The Filibuster, Explained" by Tim Lau.

Speech: "I Have a Dream" - Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963.

Site: National Action Network.

Book: Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet by Noam Chomsky, Robert Pollin with C.J. Polychroniou.

Article: "Democrats Will Ruin the Climate" by Daniel Henniger.

Article: "Newsom's biggest recall danger: Complacent Democrats who don't turn out to vote" by Julia Wick, Phil Willon.

Article: "Larry Elder" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Taliban creep closer to capturing former heartland as lack of pay undermines Afghan forces" by Charlie Faulkner.

Article: "Afghanistan's president Ashraf Ghani flees 'with helicopter full of cash'" by Michael Howie.

Site: Bloomington Transit.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in Alabama" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'A crisis situation:' Military medical team deploys in south Alabama amid COVID wave " by Melissa Brown.

Article: "My body, my choice" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Hurricane Katrina" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Article: "Hurricane Ida set to reach category 3 on Katrina anniversary as NOLA mayor says certain areas should evacuate" by Graeme Massie.

Article: "Trump stages Alabama rally as state struggles with Covid surge" by Martin Pengelly.

Article: "South Dakota Covid cases quintuple after Sturgis motorcycle rally" by Ben Kesslen and Joe Murphy.

Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.

Book: Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service by Carol Leonnig.

Video: Portrait Of A Very Stable Genius (w/ Carol D. Leonnig).

Article: "Revealed: TWELVE secret service agents brought prostitutes to Colombian hotel before Obama arrived".

Article: "The upside-down stars in the GOP logo" by quaoar.

Quote: "

I believe in a balanced budget

... The only two times when an unbalanced budget is warranted would be during a serious recession ... or a national emergency where there should be large expenditures for national defense

" - John F. Kennedy.

Quote: "Third, I think it's possible to gain a seven hundred million to a billion dollars through tax changes which I believe would close up

loopholes on dividend withholding, on expense accounts.

" - John F. Kennedy.

Quote: "So in my judgment we would spend more money in this Administration on aid to education, we'd spend more money on housing, we'd spend more money and I hope more wisely on defense than this Administration has." - John F. Kennedy.

Quote: "Now, I want to say something very important to you about this issue of morality in government." - Harry S. Truman.

Quote: "And where have the Republicans been in this fight for morality in Government? Do they come out and vote with us to keep the special interests from robbing the public? Not at all. Most of them are on the other side." - Harry S. Truman.

Quote: "These Republican gentlemen can't have it both ways--they can't be for morality on Tuesday and Thursday, and then be for special privileges for their clients on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday." - Harry S. Truman.

Quote: "I don't think the "black is white" campaign of the Republican Party is going to succeed. I think the voters are going to see through this holier-than-thou disguise that our Republican friends are putting on. All the tricks of Republican propaganda cannot make the people forget that the Democratic Party has been working for their welfare." - Harry S. Truman.

Article: "Give 'em hell Harry" by Political Dictionary.

Book: Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress by Christopher Ryan.

Video: Is Civilization Our Greatest Accomplishment or Worst Mistake? (w/ Christopher Ryan PhD).

Book: Humankind by Peter Farb.

Book: "Humankind: A Hopeful History" by Rutger Bregman.

Book: "Man's Rise to Civilization: The Cultural Ascent of the Indians of North America" by Peter Farb.

Book: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin.

Book: Thomas Jefferson : Writings : Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters by Thomas Jefferson.

Book: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond Ph.D.

Article: "Robert Sapolsky" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump rewired his supporters' brains — and now they're looking for someone even worse: Ex-White House official" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Delta Air Lines is raising health insurance premiums for unvaccinated employees by $200 a month to cover higher Covid costs" by Leslie Josephs.

Article: "Viktor Orbán" (Hungary) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Vladimir Putin" (Russia) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Andrzej Duda" (Poland) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Recep Tayyip Erdoğan" (Turkey) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Abdel Fattah el-Sisi" (Egypt) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rodrigo Duterte" (Philippines) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jair Bolsonaro" (Brazil) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kansas man dies after waiting for ICU bed as hospitals fill up with COVID-19 patients " by John Wright.

Article: "Louis DeJoy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Maryland's Extreme Gerrymander" by Peter Miller.

Article: "Quantifying Gerrymandering in North Carolina" by Gregory Herschlag et al.

Article: "AP analysis shows how gerrymandering benefited GOP in 2016" by David A. Lieb.

Book: "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against The Middle Class" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "John Locke" by Wikipedia.

Article: "René Descartes" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Thomas Hobbes" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Solar Panel Waste: The Dark Side of Clean Energy" by Conor Prendergast.

Article: "Scientists are zapping clouds with electricity to make rain " by Stephanie Bailey.

Article: "Maglev: Technology behind world's fastest train" by techamazeblog.

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