Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks, this special edition of The Listening Post looks at the climate of fear that undergirded the so-called "War on Terror" and how the US news and entertainment industries helped produce it.

Contributors:

- Chris Hedges - Former foreign correspondent for The New York Times; author of Collateral Damage

- Sinan Antoon - Co-editor at Jadaliyya; poet and writer; associate professor at New York University

- Jill Abramson - Former executive editor of The New York Times

- Deepa Kumar - author of Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire; associate professor at Rutgers University

- Robert D Kaplan - Former contributing editor at The Atlantic

- Lexi Alexander - Movie and TV director