Welcome back to New World next week. I'm James Corbett of Corporate Report.com.

And I'm James Evan Polato from Mediumonarchy.com. My heart continues to be with the 9-11 families who are suffering.

We have, of course, got that story.

Plus Nike Spike Lee's limited hangout box office, but first on this all 9-11 plus 20, New World

Next Week episode, 20 years after 9-11, mastermind. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed still awaits trial. It should be the trial of the century,

but most Americans long ago stopped paying attention. Two decades after the 9-11 attacks and nine

years after war crimes charges were filed, the pretrial wrangling in the case against accused

9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed KSM, and four other defendants

resumed just the past week after a long COVID shutdown. It marked KSM's first appearance

in court in more than a year, and no trial date has been said and none is anticipated anytime soon.

Alka Pradun, a civilian employee of the Department of Defense who represents one of those five, called what's happening a farce.

While other lawyers declined to go that far, nearly everyone seems to agree the effort to bring these defendants to justice has badly gone off the rails.

This failure is not on the people prosecuting, defending, or the judges involved, said Kevin

Powers, national security expert at Boston College, who once advised the Pentagon's Office

of Military Commissions on Guantanamo issues.

It's really the way the system was set up, and that's what people have to understand.

The system is set up to fail. It was 15 years ago Monday that President George W. Bush announced

the arrival of al-Qaeda detainees at the Guantanamo prison, joining hundreds of other prisoners,

of course in their muzzles and masks, hundreds of other prisoners already

held in the U.S. enclave. The reasons the Wheel of Justice are moving so slowly are many. It's a

logistical nightmare to travel there. The military commission system set up for this trial was

created from scratch by the Obama administration, so every rule could be a point of contention,

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