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9/11
![New Yorkers left flowers for the people who lost their lives from the COVID-19 pandemic, next to container morgues by the Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York City on April 21, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/04/2020_0427-covid-19-sign-400x300.jpg)
COVID Deaths in US Will Soon Surpass Number of Americans Killed in Vietnam War
Before the weekend, known U.S. COVID deaths will surpass 58,000 -- the number of Americans who died in the Vietnam War.
![Attorney General William Barr arrives with President Donald Trump to speak with members of the coronavirus task force during a briefing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Wednesday, April 1, 2020, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/04/GettyImages-1209810939-400x300.jpg)
Attorney General Barr Refuses to Release 9/11 Documents to Victims’ Families
Barr says he cannot even explain why the material must stay secret without putting national security at risk.
![An Afghan boy walks alongside a U.S. Marine on a security patrol in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, on April 17, 2012.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/12/2019_1219-afghanistan-soldier-child-400x300.jpg)
How War Targets the Young
At home or abroad, the “war on terror” has also been a war on youth and education.
![Hijabis display signs during a protest](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/09/2019_0913-hijabi-protest-400x300.jpg)
Post-9/11 Terrorism Watchlist of More Than 1 Million Judged Unconstitutional
The judge worried that abuse plaintiffs suffered at the border could be duplicated by law enforcement inside the U.S.
![A woman wails into her hands amongst rubble from an airstrike](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/09/2019_0911-crying-woman-400x300.jpg)
It’s Been 18 Years Since 9/11. It’s Time to End the Wars.
“Never Forget” is a gruesome farce, an enforced memory intended to fuel a never-ending desire for war.
![U.S. soldiers fortify an Afghan Highway Police checkpoint with razor wire in Robat, Afghanistan, March 19, 2010.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/09/2019_0910-afghanistan-soldiers-400x300.jpg)
Observe 9/11 Anniversary by Calling for an End to the Afghan War
The U.S. must withdraw all troops, CIA agents and mercenaries and close its military bases in Afghanistan.
![Sen. Joe Biden speaks to the press after Senate luncheons, October 1, 2002.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/07/2019_0728-joe-biden-400x300.jpg)
How Biden’s Secret 2002 Meetings Led to War in Iraq
It was Biden's inference in his Senate presentation that brought Iraq's WMD threat into mainstream discourse.
![Protesters display a sign depicting Julian Assange being gagged with the U.S. Flag](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/07/2019_0703-julian-assange-400x300.jpg)
Assange Is Trapped in the Web of the US Legal Empire
Assange's extradition case proves that in the U.S. empire, the gravity of justice pulls only one way.
![This combination of pictures shows at left a police file photo made available February 6, 2002 of the "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh and at right a February 11, 2002 photograph of him as seen from records in Pakistan's northwestern city of Bannu.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/05/GettyImages-1137805080-400x300.jpg)
John Walker Lindh Spent 17 Years in Prison — and the War Rages On
To no small degree, 2002 cemented the world we live in today.
![The 'Tribute in Light' memorial lights up lower Manhattan near One World Trade Center on September 11, 2018, in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/04/2019_0519-world-trade-center-400x300.jpg)
How Do We Teach 9/11 to Those Who Don’t Remember It?
The logic of “never forget” demands we overlook what followed 9/11: Islamophobia and expanded executive authority.