Chris Hedges | A Decade After 9/11: We Are What We Loathe

Reader Supported News | 11 September 11 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News **SUSPENDING FUNDRAISING for September 11th. We are going to suspend our fundraising drive for the day to allow for reflection and meditation. We will resume the drive Monday. -- ma/RSN** Chris Hedges | A Decade After 9/11: We Are What We Loathe Chris Hedges, Truthdig Chris Hedges begins: "I arrived in Times Square around 9:30 on the morning of September 11, 2001. A large crowd was transfixed by the huge Jumbotron screens. Billows of smoke could be seen on the screens above us, pouring out of the two World Trade towers. Two planes, I was told by people in the crowd, had plowed into the towers. I walked quickly into the New York Times newsroom at 229 W. 43rd St., grabbed a handful of reporter's notebooks, slipped my NYPD press card, which would let me through police roadblocks, around my neck, and started down the West Side Highway to the World Trade Center." READ MORE Afghanistan: Truck Bomb Wounds Scores of US Soldiers Associated Press The report begins: "Nearly 80 American soldiers were wounded and two Afghan civilians were killed in a Taliban truck bombing targeting an American base in eastern Afghanistan, NATO said Sunday, a stark reminder that the war in Afghanistan still rages 10 years after the September 11 terror attacks against the United States." READ MORE Willie Nelson | This Land Is Our Land Willie Nelson, Reader Supported News Wille Nelson begins: "The attacks of September 11, 2001, occurred just a few weeks before Farm Aid's annual concert. In the midst of our fear, mourning and uncertainty, the organizers of Farm Aid had to make a difficult choice." READ MORE First Responders' Health Care an Insult to Heroism Bob Considine, The New Jersey Star-Ledger Excerpt from the Wife of an NYPD 9/11 First Responder: "'It's a disgrace to my husband, who gave of himself and went through so much inhumane suffering,' she said. 'And it's a disgrace for the people who are going through what we went through. These people are still suffering, and they're losing their homes because of the medical bills.'" READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on Facebook Recommend Newsletter to Friend