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“The American people are willing to fight wars if their blood is out. If their blood is boiling hot. Well, what is it that triggers that phase change?” – Graeme MacQueen, from the film Peace, War and 9/11 [1]
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On October 1, 2001, days prior to launching an attack on Afghanistan as an act of “self-defence,” the Tanzanian-Canadian feminist sociologist, academic and activist Sunera Thobani, said the following at the “Women’s Resistance: From Victimization to Criminalization” conference in Ottawa…
“We feel the pain of those attacks every day; we have been watching it replayed constantly on television. But do we feel any pain for the victims of U.S. aggression? Two hundred thousand people were killed in the initial war on Iraq. That bombing of Iraq has continued for 10 years now. Do we feel the pain of all the children in Iraq who are dying from the sanctions that were imposed by the United States? … Do we feel the pain of Palestinians who now for 50 years have been living in refugee camps? U.S. foreign policy is soaked in blood. And other countries of the West including “shamefully” Canada, cannot line up fast enough behind it. All want to sign up now as Americans and I think it is the responsibility of the women’s movement in this country to stop that, to fight against it.” [2]
Ms Thobani, an Associate Professor and once the president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC) took a great deal of heat for blaming the resulting violence of September 11 on U.S. foreign policy! How DARE she try to find an explanation for what might motivate these horrendous attacks!
These are sensible comments, especially when Operation Enduring Freedom and the War on Terrorism cannot be acceptably challenged. Yet she was condemned by Prime Minister Chretien, had received death threats, and been the target of petitions trying to get her fired. [3][4]
Such was the frenzy the massive attacks generated. And as this website has been trying to communicate for now nearly 22 years, there are problems with the official story of the 9/11 attacks that suggest it was far worse than the news suggested. That there was, at the very least, FULL FOREKNOWLEDGE of the event!
While not exactly the first person out of the gate to expose these horrific discoveries, Graeme MacQueen, an academic who would rise to a position of prominence within the 9/11 truth movement would not only cast his gaze on some of the most profound discoveries, but would network and organize in his request to get to the heart of what 9/11 and the war on terrorism was really all about.
Graeme MacQueen’s Legacy Will Live
We reported on his passing in late April and featured a number of prominent figures paying their last respects to the man’s solid research.
This week, as our anniversary tribute to 9/11, we present excerpts of speeches and interviews we shared in previous years on the Global Research News Hour.
In addition, we also present a NEW interview with his fellow 9/11 Researcher Ted Walter about the film Graeme contributed to that will be screening for the first time on September 6 in Hamilton (hosted by the Hamilton Coalition to stop the War) before it is released on YouTube on September 11.
Here is a sneak peak of Graeme MacQueen’s ultimate statement on 9/11 and its aftermath.
For people living in Hamilton:
| The debut screening of Peace, War and 9/11 takes place Wednesday, September 6 7 – 9:30pm EDT @ The Westdale – 1014 King Street West, Hamilton. You can get tickets via Eventbrite. |
Graeme MacQueen is a Religious Studies Professor, and the founding Director of the Centre for Peace Studies, both at McMaster University, and also what would become a major brain developing the cogent arguments that the official narrative of the September 11 attacks. MacQueen, also the co-editor of Journal of 9/11 studies, the organizer of the Toronto Hearings on 9/11: Uncovering Ten Years of Deception, and author of The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy and the more recent ebook The Pentagon’s B-Movie. Looking Closely at the September 2001 Attacks.
Graeme MacQueen was a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). Archive of Graeme MacQueen’s GR articles.
Ted Walter is currently the director of the Internation Center for 9/11 Justice. He was previously the director of strategy and development for AE911Truth from 2015 until early 2023. He is the author of AE911Truth’s 2015 publication Beyond Misinformation: What Science Says About the Destruction of World Trade Center Buildings 1, 2, and 7 and its 2016 publication World Trade Center Physics: Why Constant Acceleration Disproves Progressive Collapse and co-author of AE911Truth’s 2017 preliminary assessment of the Plasco Building collapse in Tehran. He holds a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
(Global Research News Hour episode 398)
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Notes:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mEIPhNrRRA
- https://herizons.ca/archives/cover/the-speech-that-shook-the-country
- ibid
- Sean Boynton (September 10, 2021),’Since 9/11, Islamophobia has been ‘a constant feature’ in Canada, experts say’, Global News; https://globalnews.ca/news/8174029/9-11-islamophobia-canada/
