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What has the USA learned since 9/11?

I created the series “Pentagon Man” in 2010. And unfortunately, it is even more true today. More art work at www.namayaproductions.comSummaryTwenty-five years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, and fifty-three years after Chile’s own September 11 coup created by the US Government, as documented by The Pinochet Files, this essay asks ‘what has the United States has actually learned. It traces a line from the genocide of Native peoples, the enslavement of Africans, and the expulsion of Chinese and Mexican communities at home, through a century of foreign interventions from the Philippines to Chile, to today’s actions in Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran. Citing documented costs — trillions spent on the post-9/11 wars, a Pentagon that cannot pass a financial audit, and a national security budget exceeding two trillion dollars a year — it argues the pattern shows not learning, but practiced, well-funded repetition.Twenty-five years ago this week, nineteen hijackers from Saudi Arabia, UAE, E…
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