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20 years after 9/11, millions of victims of 'War on Terror': Reflection with Prof. Asad AbuKhalil

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Moderate Rebels

Foreignpolicy, Politics, War, Journalism, Middleeast, News, News Commentary

4.7673 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2021

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton discuss the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks with Professor Asad Abukhalil, and the millions of victims of the "War on Terror."

We speak about US imperialism's constant meddling in the Middle East, and Washington's hybrid wars on Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen, and more.

We also addressed how Bush-era neocons have been rehabilitated by and even merged with the Democratic Party and liberal "humanitarian interventionists."

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0:00.0

Hey, hello everyone.

0:05.3

This is Moderate Rebels Live.

0:08.0

This is the 20th anniversary of 9-11.

0:11.1

So today we're joined by, I think, really someone who's the perfect guest to discuss this.

0:16.2

We are joined by Assad Abu Khalil, who is a professor, academic, a brilliant scholar.

0:23.6

He teaches at the University of Southern California Stanislaus, right?

0:29.5

That I get that right?

0:30.5

No, no, no, no.

0:32.1

California State University Stanislaus.

0:34.0

California State University Stanislaus.

0:36.1

There you go.

0:36.7

You almost said North Dakota. Yeah, go

0:38.6

ahead. And he's in the political science department. And you might know Asada Abol Khalil because he used

0:46.0

to run a blog called Angry Arab. It's a very fun blog. And he's very active on Twitter and is the author

0:52.4

of several books and is all around an actual expert

0:55.8

on West Asia, that is the Middle East. Unlike all of the fake experts, we constantly see in

1:02.9

mainstream corporate media and in think tanks and in academia. So today we're going to reflect

1:08.4

on the 20th anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 attacks

1:14.0

and the millions of victims of the so-called U.S. war on terror because so often, when there are

1:20.8

these reflections on 9-11, it's only a discussion of the 3,000 Americans who died and not the millions of people whose people whose lives were destroyed in the so-called U.S. War on Terror and the constant terrorism, the state terrorism that the U.S. has waged around the world after 9-11.

1:42.5

So it's hard to begin a discussion like this because it's hard to know where

1:46.3

to begin. I have some thoughts that I want to talk about today, specifically about how the U.S.

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