In this article the author revisits the site of 9/11 (virtually or literally?) and recalls some significant related history that explains much of the Empire's "war on terror", an excuse used to provide cover for far flung military campaigns abroad and the construction of many components of a police state here.
This is the world morphing into, or being gobbled up by, dematerialized ultra-capitalism; a world in a state of crisis, driven by violence, and with violence as the only possible horizon.