The Forever War: 20 Years After 9/11
Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks, this special edition of The Listening Post looks at the climate of fear that undergirded the so-called “War on Terror” and how the US news and entertainment industries helped produce it.
Contributors:
– Chris Hedges – Former foreign correspondent for The New York Times; author of Collateral Damage
– Sinan Antoon – Co-editor at Jadaliyya; poet and writer; associate professor at New York University
– Jill Abramson – Former executive editor of The New York Times
– Deepa Kumar – author of Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire; professor at Rutgers University
– Robert D Kaplan – Former contributing editor at The Atlantic
– Lexi Alexander – Movie and TV director
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