months of demonstrations, farmers say the long as introduced last year, fails to guarantee minimum prices and leave them with little bargaining power against big retailers. talk to the government, have failed to break the deadlock poverty. mitar was at the protest was off of my god. this is all about politics and i know to waste more than 100000 go far beyond the choice of venue significant. you see the state of what the police are going to election next in about 70. but who knows where this is? the head i had to value you see, the city is too large community, the muslim now for decades these to community coexist peacefully. but 8 years ago, riot real cause and dis benefitted to be immensely nearly 70 percent of the present . both went to the pgp. hey, of the way funding movies to come prime minister in 2014,

in 2017. the time to talk to you about the gap community. disaffected communities tend to be jiffy, that they are trying to men bridges with them with them trying to be good calculations ahead election into this. ah, the headlines on al jazeera, the heavy gunfire near the presidential palace in guineas capital, consecrating the past half hours. soldiers that appeared on national television, saying they are now in control and have dissolved the constitution. guineas,

president of our county has been seen in a video being held by a group of soldiers. in the video of our county was asked if he was tortured all mistreated to, which he responded, no, never news negotiations on the way. and i've gone and found to finalize a new government for the taliban is facing strong resistance. so it's all in a region north of the capital, there's been heavy fighting in the mountainous ban, cheer valley, but the taliban says it's close to taking control of the region. the national resistance fund is made up of militias and form raf con security force members. both sides claim that inflicted heavy losses. a top us general has worn there's a chance of a broader civil war in iraq have been to attacks on security forces blamed on iso, at least 12 police officers were killed when their checkpoint was attacked near the northern city of kirk cook and 3 soldiers were killed in a separate incident near mosul. those are the headlines. very navigator will have a news hour for you on august here after the listening post,

stay with us. it shows the world and changed the us forever. but after a vengeful war and africanist on how much has changed and at what cost? al jazeera looks back on 20 years since the $911.00 attacks the paper here on the yard, we understand that there has been a plane crash on the southern manhattan. that was like a 2nd and never again going to be the same. most new york will not be the same and it will not be to say not in the history on this nation, has such carnage. tell me there was an eat those that took cold that, you know, this terrible attack was a big threat to the country and that somehow we were all in this

together, the government and the press, the response ought to be appropriate to what is in fact, the 2nd, pearl harbor, the climate after $911.00 and meant that if you spoke out against the calls to invade iraq or the war on terror, you are committing career suicide. this is about good versus evil. this is about people who want to destroy us, our civilization, and our way of life. no, you live in basically created a world in which the united states was able to present itself as a force of good fighting against this international axis of evil. states like these and their turns down lives constitute an axis of evil behind the rhetoric is a reality, which is filled with death and destruction for people in the middle east and central asia and south asia. we need to paper on notice that if they harbor

terrorists, they are going to get it. legacy has been creating more terrorism. actually, we've got a long way to go. in order to achieve our objective in america has no interest in fighting an endless war in afghanistan. it's the war that enhances the conditions that produce what is supposed to eradicate. we want to fight a war. galveston and when i could win that war in a week, i just don't want to kill 10000000 people. i know my decision will be criticized. but i would rather take all that criticism. pastors decision on to another president in the united states, yet another one. the war that can never really end the one did not have to be a visionary to realize on september 11th, 2001 that the united states was about to change. a strike at the heart of the

world's only superpower, almost $3000.00 american lives lost in a single day. we'll have that effect. what was unforeseen was? how many people in countries that had nothing to do with the 911 attacks had been affected by what the bush administration called the people who have never set foot in the west have seen their own countries changed their own rights freedom. some lives restricted, the invasion of afghanistan and iraq turned from temporary interventions into long term occupations. and we're still dominating these in 2000 today, taliban fighters took control of the capital cobble. it was a crusade as president george w bush once called. we've never seen this kind of evil before, but the evil doers have never seen the american people. it started with the white

house, forging alliances on the airwaves, every imprint and an intellectual surface. one of the intellectuals who was brought into the white house to help frame the war on terror is bernard lewis are not. louis is famous for pointing the term clash of civilizations. they want to turn this into a religious war. a war of islam against what they see, see the world of the unbelievers and in the world of the believers, obviously the americans come 1st. another person who was brought in is freed secaria. at the time was the editor, international edition of new suite of the war takes place and it goes well, which i think it probably will. you will also see at the end of this war that saddam hussein was indeed a murderous tire. and there will be stories that will be evidence and in that sense, you know, you will, you will. this will, will look better in history perhaps than it does today. 911 gave

a new lease and a new life to oriental ideas and even oriented lists scribes. this man can world view of good and evil in a way allowed for the bushes. administration is notion of this. lemme call to replace actually the space that the evil empire of the soviet union had occupied before. and so the idea really was that it was the role of the united states to go in and civilized these peoples. and what these intellectuals did is they wrap that up and made it palatable for the 21st century. it was a time when the line separating american journalism from those in power faded away or was willingly crossed november 29th, 2001 was a case in point. it is a day that has stuck to for read the car and proper capital. a writer who worked at for the atlantic both attended a meeting,

organized by the deputy secretary of defense, paul wolf with a gathering of hawks planning, a war and messengers who knew how to sell a brainstorming session. that capital now would mit produced a forceful summary of pro war arguments. at the time the most significant talking point of the meeting was that the united states had to find a way to change the regime in iraq in supporting the iraq war. i build my own test as a realist and have never ceased to remind by readers of that over the last 20 years . i attended no other meetings about the iraq war. and it's correct to say that meeting such as this one, provided an intellectual veneer to the policy that emerged. what rankles me is that with a few exceptions, the people who were writing robustly in favor of the war in

iraq, they're the editors of some of the most important publications in the united states . right now. they're my friends. i don't wanna single them out, but none of them paid a price not no $1.00. i supported the war because i was a journalist who had gotten too close to my story. i had made several trips in the 19 eighties and i had never experienced tyranny. like i did in saddam hussein's iraq, so i said to myself, what's worse than this? nothing could be worse than this. well, i found out in the years since the invasion that the anarchy in iraq after saddam cell was much, much worse than the tyranny under his rule. whether caught opt in a rush of patriotism or addicted to the ratings that rise when broadcaster is bang, the drums are too much of the american media bought into the big allies on iraqi

w. m. d. 's terrorist sleeper south than the us and saddam hussein's fictional links to outcome. new studios were flooded with ex military officers turned front men for weapons manufacturers urging us to attack iraq, presented as experts who were more like profit. here at the pentagon, played a ordinating role in getting them on the air. let's turn to retire. general. joseph ralston also join me. general bernard, trainer, he's a retired marine corps lieutenant general, air force lieutenant general tom mac. and ernie who is with us in our foxes, were briefing room. they were beltway band, former pentagon officials, who make out like bandits when they go into the private sector and then work for military contractor history. this campaign is brilliant. it doesn't involve any

collateral damage, no villages, no urban warfare. and it was a scandal that david barstow of the new york times uncovered. he brought in the minutes of the meetings between rumsfeld and the military experts who were going on tv was a completely orchestrated program inside the pentagon, giving talking points to the experts who would go on the media to shape public opinion. ah, anti war perspectives were marginalized, in some cases, sensor the new york times was not the only us media outlet to turn into a conveyor belt for a false narrative. but because of its reach and influence at home and abroad, it helped set the news agenda. jill abramson was the times in washington bureau chief chris hedges as beat at the time. without kite or in the media was complicit

in, perpetuating this mit. you can't make a war on terror. that's o t ology. it's impossible. and yet we reacted we drank from that very dark elixir of nationalism. you have to remember after the attacks of 911, the bush administration, perpetrated on, on purpose this kind of fear. it's how they ended up passing the patriot act in the 2002 authorization use military force act. so you had fear, but then you also had american chauvinism. and that was a very deadly mix that an essence blinded the new york times as an institution. it wasn't just one or 2 reporters right after $911.00. i remember the director of the cia george kenneth calling me. i was the washington bureau chief for the new york times and on that call, enlisting my agreement that the times would not do

any reporting or disclose and of intelligence sources and methods. you just start to the washing and posts and he kicked off the networks and everybody had agree. and the times ended up giving huge play some seriously flawed news stories that were based on for rocky defectors, who turned out to have very little information value about the current state of affairs and iraq. me in 2004, the times published and editorial may a copa of sorts admitting that some of its coverage, leading up to the iraq war was not as rigorous as it should have been. it said editors who should have been challenging record, pressing for more skepticism, were perhaps too intent on rushing scoops into the paper. the editorial ended with

a promise to continue aggressive reporting aimed at setting the record straight in the us military on leave a massive series of airstrikes on baghdad and other cities in iraq. and it was both shocking and awesome, as it was promised to be swept the nation after the events of $911.00. so much so that journalist felt that they could not ask critical questions. cbs anchor, dan, rather who went on the letterman show and who said george bush, the president, he makes the decisions. and you know, there's just one american wherever you want me to line up, just tell me where. and he'll make the call. talk about media that have completely given up their autonomy, fox news, and rupert murdoch's empire with consistently in favor of the war on iraq. in fact, all his editors about a 180 of them took

a pro war. busy line in the lead up to the iraq war one, oregon saddam begins. we expect every american to support our military. and if they can't do that, to shut on color or audiences were led to believe the iraq war would be over in months if not weeks. and months our patients will be one of our strengths that american troops would not end up meyer there. or in afghanistan, which the us invaded to hunt down to summer. been loudon and al qaeda. and where a decade after bin laden's, assassination, american forces remained when the biden administration finally, and the afghan establishing last month, american news companies featured many of the same voices. obviously, this is an unmitigated disaster column. we did our dc party defense contract brown that had advocated were the invasions and the subsequent occupation were now arguing that the us was leaving afghans at the mercy of the taliban pandering

american entry on time 911 also birth a new generation of security centric films and television shows produced to trade on the pentagon and the cia have long had an informal symbiotic relationship with all supplying movie makers with military hardware or turning the spy agencies headquarters in virginia into a film set in exchange for the state friendly screenplays. 2 months after 911 in november of 2147 talk, hollywood executives met with bush advisor, karl rove in los angeles, to discuss patriotic plot lines. the industry could crash rove later said it was

about showing that the war and afghan stone was not against islam, but against terrorism. that distinction would be lost on most filmmakers, and eventually their audiences. there was 24. it's centered around a counter terror prism agent by the name of jack bower. and every season is based on 24 hours of trying to avert this terrorist plot. i watch the ball on torturing people, sometimes killing them. but the audience is led to believe that he has no choice, but to do all the real quick things. so that show was fantastic, a popular and played a very big role in terms of creating a terrorism mindset. season for the show 24 had an ad campaign with a muslim family that looked very suburban. america. please come to me or not.

i can't even tell you the shock i felt when i saw that i'm here to tell you that i think that many people die because of it. drones up being dropped because we are the unionized countries i invaded because we are unionized because people do not have empathy with brown people. the whole land, which took over from 24 round from 2011 to 2020 and marked a shift from the kind of shoot him a cowboy narrative off 24 into obama smarter war on terror. all the muslim characters, nefarious and terrible, except for one of the agent who is an iranian american, who proves her loyalty by being extremely patriotic. but your current state of mind

makes your loyalty to him and to the agency, a very live issue. call the director, not to worry. she's a good muslim, right? that showed how cultural knowledge of the enemy, good intelligence and diplomacy were important in terms of winning the war on terror. of course it also justified extra judicial killing. it justify torture and all the rest of it. so now you've got the air for the muslim who is a c h and but nobody stopped and asked for hold it. you know, is this now human eyes thing as are you making us, you know, like everybody else when you get far, speakers with the experience and international finance, i had to help. what can we tell him? we really those about so damaging it was for american coaches to be center, but not a single movie about how damaging it was for the people down after $911.00,

any nuanced discussion of the islam of world or what it means to be muslim is vanquished. and what we get, in fact, are just these empty slogans and cliches that take the place of real understanding or knowledge. so when you get films like american sniper butcher, you've got to say kid on the avenue, the entire premise of the film that these people are terrorists who savagely attack innocence. they're not defending their own country from invasion, kind of mind to move. it feeds very pernicious stereotypes. there are very few films that actually show a nuanced portrayal of what context make tears impossible what drives young men to become tears. there are examples of film by morgan that maybe i use voices of god.

is the policy in film? paradise? no. it's not a coincidence that the psalms are not american. these films show the complexity of the socio economic and geo political climate that push certain young men into the hands of terrorists organizations. so i understand, of course, no films articlemodel d, right. and these are multinational corporations that are interested in profit, and they want to produce what sells in a way. but oftentimes, it rhymes with the official discourse and narrative of the state.

after so many years of you need dimensional reductive depictions of error muslims and the middle east audiences have been conditioned to expect certain kind of bad guys. i stopped in the blood was those one and it's sprayed everywhere which may explain why the new york times. incidentally, winning podcast, 1018, california was such as the central character who went by the elliot abu, who told the times he wasn't islamic states soldier and furnished the paper with tales of violence. and barbara had multiple times put him on the cross to leave a dagger in his heart. the podcast was downloaded millions of time, but the story turned out to be abu safe was real name is, sharon shouted. he is

a fraud. a fantasist who sold a fictional tale 2 times reporter, meaning color market one she would eventually, when a peabody award for the paper was forced to admit it got it wrong. blaming and institutional failure. 16 years after acknowledging the failings in its post 9 coverage. promising to be more rigorous, the new york times had done it again. but the point remains online. with this screen, the times has concluded that the episodes of cal feet that presented a child to his claims did not meet our standards for accuracy. and the times stood by telemarketers, whose journalism has been called into question before describing her final report. so since muslims are demonized it's it's very easy for the media to embrace stories however false that cater to that

stereotype of muslims and the new york times did precisely this. when i put out the caliph it based on the testimony given by an impostor. i mean it was completely untrue, but it catered to that stereotype. it was lurid. it was salacious. it was audio snuff, poor people being crucified and stabbed in the heart. the blood was everywhere. what the hell did i just do? i'm a fake killer. now. i didn't give him a chance to repent, stabbed him, but because of the long denigration of muslims with both within popular culture and within the media. it was believable. those stereotypes that play on fear are uneasy south for the politicians, filmmakers and news networks that acted as travel agents for the war on terror discourse, political leaders, the world over have adopted that language. in some cases have copied and pasted the

legislation to surveil and ultimately their own opposition. i speak to someone who was always against this sandra geem. i always wanted to see the end of dictatorship. but i, like many iraqis did not want to see the destruction of an entire society and the dismantling of institutions that took 100 years to bill. we did not have terrorism before 2003. we did not have car bombs not have malicious running around killing people. the war on terror and the atmosphere it created has generated so much unnecessary fear amongst so many citizens. so it's become a very convenient tool to completely crush any kind of legitimate political opposition

. the fear narrative has become far more pervasive since $911.00. i yeah. it was a terrifying event. the whole country watch thousands of people die on that day. but we remained in a perpetual state of, of the year. there were always new threats that were being played. one of the key accomplishments, i think of the war on terror is really to create a world that is a lot scarier in people's minds than it is in reality. what is really alarming for people who study the war on terra and who have a sense of the actual threat posed by islamist or jihad. this group is the extent to which this threat has been overblown and over inflated not just in the united

states, but around the world to justify various course of policies. once you make people afraid, you can use that to justify stripping away basic civil liberties. remember, we are the most watch, spied upon photograph, monitored population in human history. and when your government watches you 24 hours a day, you can't use the word liberty. and that's the relationship of a master and slave. and that is the real legacy of 911. the global citizens persuaded by political leaders and news organizations to fear unseen enemies have surrendered some of their basic civil rights in the name of staying safe. in september of 2001, the bush administration called the downing of the world trade center, an attack on freedom. however, 2 decades later, you've come to realize that the actual sustained attack on freedom lies in so much

of what has happened since. it is a war on dressed up disguise as a war one who rarely aboriginal children as young as 10, being arrested and locked up in the 1st of 2 special report. one of one ac investigates strangely as indigenous incarceration cross. on our 0. ah ah, ah

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