Episode 31: Fake ISIS Plots and the Selling of Forever War

Citations Needed

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2018

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

We've seen the headlines hundreds of times: "ISIS plot foiled", "ISIS in Brooklyn", "Woman Stopped At Airport on way to join ISIS". These stories strike fear into the hearts of Americans everywhere, especially in the build up to the war effort against ISIS in Summer 2014.

The terror group was everywhere, recruiting our teenagers and attempting to strike in every major city––seemingly all at once. But what do these headlines mean exact? What is an "ISIS plot"? What is the gap between the image the media provides versus the reality of what's occurring?

On this week's episode we dive into the 17 year-long phenomenon of the US media assisting the government's war on terror by parroting dubious claims of al Qaeda and ISIS plots when the vast majority of the time––no al Qaeda or ISIS are involved.

With guest Pardiss Kebriaei, Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights.

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