The Forever War: 20 Years After 9/11
A documentary edition of the show on 20 years of the ‘War on Terror’ and the role US media have played therein.
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