As Andre Damon has admitted, the US had a policy of sexual torture against its prisoners during the “war on terror.” He writes that the soldiers “smeared them in excrement, sodomized them and forced them to masturbate in front of cameras.” While this policy went on, David Walsh argued that the #MeToo accused, many of them defenders of the “war on terror,” had done nothing wrong and the accusations themselves were the problem. At the moment of this writing, the U.S. gymnastics team testified before the Senate, detailing the efforts of the FBI to suppress an investigation of Dr. Larry Nasser’s crimes. Walsh’s arguments against #MeToo amount to a defense of imperialism, the defense of the policy of humiliation to conquer and control populations both within and outside the U.S. borders. David Walsh justifying and supporting such actions lays the foundation for a nano-bureaucratic transition to open support for imperialism.

Another article by Bill Van Auken has shown the flaws of Andre Damon’s positions on the Covid-19 virus. Bill Van Auken writes that, “One does not have to be a conspiracy theorist or believe that someone planted explosives in the Twin Towers to recognize that the official story…” was exposed as a lie, however carefully constructed. The 9/11 Commission has found a history of obstruction of justice, and still, Van Auken points out, “the obvious question is why not a single official, from the CIA director down to the consular agents who granted the hijackers visas, suffered so much as a demotion after 9/11. By contrast, in the wake of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, senior US commanders were relieved of their commands and driven out of the military.”

Bill Van Auken also writes, “…Al Qaeda-linked militias served as Washington’s proxy ground forces.” Covid-19 originated in laboratories financed by U.S. agencies. While evidence has not been brought before a court, the case of 9/11 proves how unlikely such an outcome would be. Even if secret documents showing Saudi government coordination of the attacks have, twenty years later, been declassified, Saudi Arabia remains an important ally of the U.S. government in the Middle East. What chance do we have of U.S.-funded courts and U.S.-funded labs coming together to prosecute a U.S.-funded biological weapons program? An equal chance of the U.S. government turning on Saudi Arabia as a punishment for their participation in the 9/11 attacks. Such a turn would mean fighting a war against the FBI and CIA agents who also participated in the 9/11 terrorist conspiracy. Until this happens, however, Damon argues that the U.S. government remains innocent. He argues for bourgeois liberalism, hypocrisy, and an anti-communist witch-hunt of “conspiracy theorists”, not revolutionary Marxism. For this reason, Andre Damon’s entire article lacks any reference to any conspiracy on the part of American authorities to prepare and allow for the events of 9/11. Such a dangerous denial of government crimes and such a blatant concealment of government conspiracy has its roots in a real opposition to Marxism itself.