Deepa Kumar: Manufacturing the Terrorist Threat: From the 1970s to the Obama Era

[ellenrr]

This is a brilliant video.
Easy to listen to, and very clarifying.
Deepa Kumar is a Rutgers professor of Media & Middle Eastern Studies and author of 'Islamaphobia and the politics of empire'.

Sept 4, 2014
"Manufacturing the Terrorist Threat: From the 1970s to the Obama Era"

Prof. Deepa Kumar lays out how the terrorist threat was constructed in the US in the 1970s and how this threat was racialized in the 1980s and 1990s in the political sphere, as well in the news and by Hollywood. Finally, she discusses the banalization of the terrorist threat in the 2000s and the Obama era.

[KurtNYC]

1. Really interesting.

Bookmarking to finish later. There is a BBC documentary which covers related material. It has been pulled from YouTube for copyright but the trailer remains and quickly sums up the points they cover in more detail throughout the doc with a main point being that both radical Islamists and Neocons derive their power from fear and they play off each other to acquire more power: