The Forever War: 20 Years After 9/11

by Beckypublished on 10th September 2021

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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