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Sovereignty, Empire, Capital and Terror

The question that one should ask in response to the immediate aftermath of the events of Sept. 11 is why there was outrage on such a gigantic scale? After all, people are killed in large numbers all the time, by terror, politics, and economic oppression. Within a matter of days after the attack on the WTC, the US already may have killed more people in response than died in New York, through increased and tightened sanctions in the Near East, whose main intention is clearly the terrorisation of civilian populations. So why this unprecedented outrage? There may be two answers...