This time of year will forever be the time of year when we start remembering September 11, reflect, contemplate or do anything else that somehow relates to that day. The mainstream media have apparently decided to not pay any special attention to the September 11 events and in response the non-traditional media, such as blogs, have decided to make an effort to remember and provide special coverage. The best example is Michele over at Small Victory who clearly explains in this post (with an abundance of interesting links) why she feels we should remember and commemorate. In order to do that and in order to fill the void left by mainstream media she has launched her Voices project. A visit is highly recommended and I have no doubt that many will do so in the next few weeks as we question the events of that day and their aftermath.

One person not to miss a beat in reflecting on that day is Naomi Klein who today in the Guardian explains that September 11 is used by a vast conspiracy of interests that seeks to extinguish human rights, crush dissent and further special interests. She calls it Bush’s War on Terror franchise and says:

This appears to be the true message of Bush's war franchise: why negotiate with your political opponents when you can annihilate them?

Here’s why: because September 11 taught us that negotiation was never on the cards, appeasement was never going to get us anywhere as the only thing our adversaries were after was to annihilate. To annihilate us.