11 a.m., September 20, 2026
Join us this Sunday, 25 years after the attacks on the World Trade Center, as we look at two videos on how these attacks changed the country.
The first video, Forever War: How 9/11 Unleashed U.S. Violence on Civilians Abroad & Attacks on Rights at Home, from Democracy Now!, is a look at how post-9/11 policies and the so-called war on terror reshaped the country and the world. It brings together Jameel Jaffer and Azmat Khan.
Jameel Jaffer is legal expert and director of the Knight First Amendment Institute, a legal and advocacy organization based at Columbia University dedicated to protecting First Amendment rights.
Azmat Khan of the Columbia Journalism School, who won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing the massive civilian death toll from U.S.-led airstrikes in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.
Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. It is live streamed at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.
You can watch this 25:30-minute video at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q22J4ysUvc
The second video, What has America learned from the 25 years since 9/11? Fareed digs in, is from CNN. In it, Fareed Zakaria speaks with CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen, author of “All the Presidents’ Wars,” about the legacy of America’s war on terror. Twenty-five years after 9/11, America and the world are still living with the consequences of the war on terror. It produced major tactical successes, at enormous human and financial cost.
You can watch this 28-minute video at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-js5VzdBKF0
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