"Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump": Spencer Ackerman

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Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt "The 'war on terror' was always a construct to be waged, never quite to be ended." We discuss the origins and impacts of the global "war on terror," launched by the U.S. government in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., with Spencer Ackerman, author of Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump. "We saw, beginning at the very outset of the 'war on terror,' our leaders told us to understand 9/11 as an assault of a foreign civilization, one that had nothing to do with the consequences of American extractive and exploitative foreign policy in the Muslim world or its support for Israel." Ackerman says the "war on terror" and its repercussions have extended past U.S. ground wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, to its current war on Iran, Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and the development of extensive surveillance architecture and st

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