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About this book
The unprecedented and tragic events in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania left an indelible mark on world politics. Civilian deaths in horrific circumstances triggered an uncompromising response from the US administration and its allies: an open-ended 'war on terrorism'. This anthology includes some of the world's leading commentators - Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, Naomi Klein, John Pilger, Paul Foot and A.Sivanandan. It presents accessible, detailed and often deeply personal accounts of the aftermath, the bombing of Afghanistan and the dubious claims for its legality. From investigative journalists to critical academics, human rights lawyers and anti-racist campaigners, the contributors are united in their opposition to military intervention in Afghanistan and beyond and to the attack on civil liberties in the US, the UK and Europe. Examining the the context and rhetoric of US vengeance - ennobled by the symbolic title 'Enduring Freedom' - they challenge political and popular definitions, constructions, pathologisation and reporting of terrorism. In questioning the representation of war as 'just', the anthology focuses on civilian deaths in Afghanistan, evidence of US/allied atrocities, violations of prisoners' rights and US determination to escalate military offensives, regardless of global destabilisation.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction: Witnessing 'Terror', Anticipating 'War'
- America's Jihad: A History of Origins
- An Unconscionable Threat to Humanity
- The Threat of United States Ruthlessness
- Terrorism, War and Democracy Compromised
- The Politics of Morality
- Representations of Terror in the Legitimation of War
- Either You Are With Us or You Are With the Terrorists: The War's Home Front
- Resistance and Terror: Lessons from Ireland
- September 11 Aftermath: Where is the World Heading?
- A Question of State Crime?
- This War is Illegal and Immoral, and it Won't Prevent Terrorism
- Expanding the Concept of Terrorism?
- Legislative Responses to Terrorism
- All in the Name of Security
- In Defence of Civil Liberties
- Poverty is the New Black
- The Challenge of September 11: An Interview with A Sivanandan
- The Policing of Immigration in the New World Disorder
- September 11 and All That: An African Perspective
- The Khaki Election
- Signs of the Times
- Business as Usual? Corporate Moralism and the War Against Terrorism
- Dave Whyte Markets, Regulation and Risk: The US Airlines Industry and Some Fallout from September 11
- Dangers of the Armed Response at Home
- Terrorism, Neighbours and Nuremberg
- Pledging Allegiance: The Revival of Prescriptive Patriotism
- My Fellow Americans: Looking Black on Red Tuesday
- Neither Pure Nor Vile
- The Lion, the Witch and the Warmonger: Good, Evil and the Shattering of Imperial Myth
- Beyond September 11: Certainties and Doubts
- Could Osama Bin Laden Have Been a Woman? Masculinity and September 11
- An Attack on Truth?
- My Beating by Refugees is a Symbol of the Hatred and Fury of this Filthy War
- In the Name of a Just War
- Notes on Contributors
- Index