“False flag” has become a common term over the last two decades to describe an actual or suspected staged event of deception. The author of the article linked here uses it in recapitulating the terrorism of Sept. 11, 2001, and its aftermath to date in the self-described “News Magazine of the Islamic Movement.” NOTE: For a partial list of anniversary events, scroll down or click HERE. And for today’s brief selection of news items about the Ukraine war, scroll down or click HERE. — MCM

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9/11, 22 years later: Will we ever get the truth? by Kevin Barrett | Crescent International  9/11 was the neocons’ new Pearl Harbor. But it was not merely designed to launch the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, or even the destruction of “seven countries in five years.” Its less-obvious but more important purpose was to implant Islamophobia deeply and permanently into the western subconscious mind. By equating Islam with terrorism, 9/11 hoodwinked the west into . . . READ MORE . . .