This is a hard topic for me to cover--not because the dreams I've personally had about the attack on the World Trade Center are so nightmarish, but because, though I had a dream or two predicting it (like Two Planes), I just haven't dreamed much of 9/11 afterward. My feelings have been surprisingly subdued, too. And a lot of those feelings are not popular. For example: al-Qaeda was correct to accuse the US of equal violence toward Muslims around the world. That doesn't justify attacking American civilians, but the list of Muslim civilians killed by American guns and bombs rivaled 9/11 even before the US attacked Afghanistan and Iraq:

• Libya, where US planes bombed civilians (an American court dismissed a lawsuit by a couple whose daughter was killed, calling it "frivolous.")
• Palestine, where our weapons and money are used to deny the civil rights of a whole people. Why do our tax dollars go to a government that discriminates on the basis of race and religion? If it was wrong to support South Africa's version of apartheid, why is it OK in Palestine now?
• Sudan (the US bombed a pharmaceutical plant--oops! Yeah, the Sudanese government is genocidal, and I'd shed no tears if the US declared war; that might save half a million southerners and Darfurians. But can't the Pentagon aim?)
• Iran (the US shot down an airliner, killing nearly 400 religious pilgrims--oops again),
• abetted warcrimes against Kurds in northern Iraq (US pilots were ordered to stand aside and let Saddam's planes strafe columns of fleeing refugees) and Shiites in US-occupied south Iraq (who under UN rules had a right to protection, but who we left to be crushed by Saddam's tanks)
• bombed Iraqi water, power and sewage plants, killing half a million over a decade from water-borne diseases (if spreading anthrax in the US is terrorism, what's spreading typhoid make us?)
• In Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and all over the region, our money and weapons support elites who suppress their own people. We're slowing democracy, not promoting it--and people resent it. That's what Al-Qaeda capitalizes on.

Mind you, I find all the fundamentalists equally repulsive--Christian, Jewish, Muslim, or Hindu. Wherever they've acquired power and influence, what results is discrimination, intimidation and violence.

But corporate capitalism's record isn't much cleaner. I'm afraid peaceful people round the world are caught between two equally brutal, self-righteous forces: capitalists and theocrats. Cold War II! 9/11 was just one shot... and despite American media fantasies, NOT the first shot.

Nor, I'm afraid, the last.

I'd say "A pox on both your houses!"... but smallpox spreads.

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	AMERICAN WIDOW: by Alissa Torres; February 2002, a dream of her husband lost on 9/11 High-voltage traces of our lust and love flowed through our mattress nightly... until one night when the power surged and overflowed. Then I felt you...
	BIRDS ON FIRE: by Wayan; 2008/9/15, a political dream-poem, Dreamverse #26 George Bush leads a hill-tribe raid against the hill-tribe led by Osama bin Laden... and I'm stuck between... CAUTION: ANTI-HEROES, POLITICAL PREDICTION
	CLIMB FROM THE PIT: by Wayan, 1996/11/9, a dream parable. I'm in the Mideast. No wonder it's a war zone--it's a vast pit BUILT for war! But a spiral stair leads slowly out, to...
	DISASTER DREAM: by Roz Chast, 2023 or before, a dream on the struggle of dreamwork? Trump wackos bomb the World Trade Center. I flee New York. Morticia Addams puts us up. Inside the dream, I fall asleep. When I wake I ask "was the attack a dream?" Morticia says it was smaller. I try to write it all down on my bedsheet, but the ink spreads. I wake again, sure I need to wash the sheet...
	DRINK THE DOVE: by Myoe Shonin; c.1202/9/11, a pre-Surrealist surreal dream The sparrow died in the ashes, but the dove in my hands became a blue cloud. I drank it, thinking "This will benefit us all"...
	EVERLASTING AND PERPETUAL NIGHTMARE: by Shawn King; c. 2009/2/10; two bits of a lifelong nightmare Lucifer throws firebolts from a Montreal tower; monsters stalk us; next comes the flood...
	FALL INTO FEAR: by Brenda Ferrimani; 2001/9/12, a 9/11 nightmare transformed by lucidity I’m falling into endless darkness. I feel like screaming, but then I remind myself I’m dreaming. “What is for me here?” I demand. “SHOW ME!” I begin rising toward the stars. Huge metal discs with alien writing rise with me...
	A FIRE ENTIRELY WITHOUT HEAT: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2008/9/11; painting in the Box of Dreams On the anniversary of 9/11, I dreamed a friend was welding nude. In his careful hands, the fire was harmless...
	GROUND ZERO: by Al Davison; 2001/9/9, a predictive dream-comic. Two days before 9/11, I dream I'm a child at ground zero, mourning the devastation--and witnessing rebirth.
	JUST BEFORE 9/11: by Patti Viscardi; 6 AM 2001/9/11, a predictive nightmare I was on a plane... It was almost graceful, the plane actually entered the building before everything dissolved into flame... CAUTION: DEATH. DEATH TWICE.
	LARRY'S MULTIVERSE: by Wayan; 2008/2/16, a dream poem, Dreamverse #14 My shamanic teacher lures me into a labyrinth ruled by wizards whose magic-monopoly's about to fall...
	THE MUEZZIN WHISTLE: by Wayan; 1994/7/14, a brief cynical dream. I argue to a friend that Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Capitalism are more alike than they admit...
	NEW LEVEL!: by "Julian"; 2006/5/22, 3 gamelike dreams in one night, two of them epic My mom and I road-duel an alien beetle, then investigate a deepspace Marie Celeste; then I spy for the Angevin Empire to protect the Crown Jewels...
	POLE OF THE EMPIRE STATE: by Wayan; 2002/3/26, a 9/11 nightmare about... suspension? I find myself clinging to a pole as tall as the Empire State Building. Can I slide down without falling? Or burning from friction? And... what's down there?
	RECUR: by Roz Chast, 2023 or before, her recurrent dream types cartooned Is our brain trying to tell us something that, evidently, we haven't heard the last 70 times? Or is the dream-manufacturing area feeling a little lazy? I have no idea, but here are some of my "classics"...
	THE SHAMAN INSPECTOR: by Wayan; 1996/7/31, a dream on core values. My work as a federal shaman inspector involves judging a rainbow of traditions by a few basic principles:
	SPIRITUAL TESTS: by Wayan; 2000/8/28, a predictive dream As my dad lies dying, I dream my sister and I face spiritual tests given by slacker angels who'd rather be on TV. Learn to let go!
	TAROT: THE SOLAR REVOLUTION: by Wayan; Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1979. The card of revolution! The old towers of strength come down, not via war but obsolescence...
	THIRD-PARTY DEFENSE: by Wayan, 2004/9/11, a dream challenging lifelong pacifism DAY: At a party, this stranger keeps sniping at me. I see no gain for me in fighting him, and just leave. DREAM: Aliens attack. They've wiped out other planets, so we fight all-out! Not just for us, for the next species...
	TRAVEL: by "SchlofM"; 2008/2/10, a dream about protection I'm on a trip to who knows where, with my young-again mom, my dead dad, and--who's that guy?
	TWO PLANES: by Wayan, 1994/9/6, a multistaged psychic dream. An assassination plot using two planes triggers an invasion of our kingdom. Flee? Fight? I'm a peaceful hobbit who'd rather be playing Frisbee with the dryads...
	VISIONS UPSTAIRS: by Wayan, 2007/1/15, an ero-spiritual dream-comic Junk in the attic? Treasures! The cat musicians shift from cartoons to life as I ascend, til in the ultimate attic--the astral beach--I meet a cattaur made of pure (de)light... CAUTION: SEX-CRAZED CATS, NEW AGE FINALE

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