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War With No End
On October 7th 2001, US-led forces invaded Afghanistan, marking the start of George Bush and Tony Blair’s “War on Terror.” Six years on, where have the policies of Bush and Blair left us? Bringing together some of the finest contemporary writers, this wide-ranging anthology, from reportage and “faction” to fiction, explores the impact of this “long war” throughout the world, from Palestine to Iraq, Abu Ghraib, the curtailment of civil liberties and manipulation of public opinion.
Published in conjunction with Stop the War coalition and United for Peace and Justice, War With No End provides an urgent, necessary reflection on the causes and consequences of the ideological War on Terror.
Published in conjunction with Stop the War coalition and United for Peace and Justice, War With No End provides an urgent, necessary reflection on the causes and consequences of the ideological War on Terror.
174 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2007
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July 2, 2024
“Our grief is not a cry for war.”
This has quite the line-up with contributions from the likes of Joe Sacco, Naomi Klein, John Berger and Arundhati Roy all making convincing points about the horrendous war crimes committed by western powers in Iraq and beyond. I thought that Roy’s contribution in particular was simply outstanding, reminding me how often I shake my head in awe at the sheer quality of her writing.
Bennis shows in her essay, how so often the most extremist of groups come as a result of violent and oppressive military action, Hezbollah only came about in 1982 due to the Israeli invasion and occupation of South Lebanon and again in Israeli occupied Gaza Strip gave birth to Hamas in 1987. And so it remains with the likes of ISIS.
We see that even though in Feb 15, 2003 demonstrations “brought out between 12 and 14 million people in the streets of 665 cities around the world. According to the 2004 Guinness Book of Records, it was the largest mass protest in human history.” The illegal invasion still went full steam ahead.
It’s all the more crazy when you hear about the billions spent on war every year by the US and 45 million Americans who still have no healthcare insurance. So this is a provocative and enlightening collection which examines and exposes the sham that is the War On Terror.
February 6, 2008
The chapters are by various authors, and each is about as long as an article in Harpers magazine... I especially appreciate the ones by Arundhati Roy, Naomi Klein, and Joe Sacco. Klein had some interesting things to say about the Israeli and world technology sectors, and how they profit from the state of endless war that our government is causing.
January 21, 2023
I struck gold when I found this on a random bookshelf at a second hand bookshop. Gold.
November 17, 2025
Brilliant collection of works from United for Peace and Justice. The book depicts the causes and consequences of the Global War on Terror.
The emotional call for peace from September 11 families broke my heart. The solidarity between the victims of terrorism in the USA and the victims of terrorism by the USA struck me.
Adhaf Soueif wrote a great piece about how Egypt, a place influenced by so many cultures and anthologies was once a ground where you could take the best of each to create a peaceful and prosperous land. However, US imperialism and hegemony has destroyed much of thst possibility. The call to action was a return to a society where we can all exist with the free exchange of ideas and thought.
Naomi Kelin wrote an excellent reflection of the war machine and how much of the economy now thrives from the instability of violence. They are the perpretrators and the beneficiaries of war, war that causes so much harm to people. Highlighted is Israel’s war dependent economy, and its influence on this global shift towards the “disastor capitalism complex”
The most beautifil writing came from Arundhati Roy, a novelist. Based in the theme of horrible things that have happened in November, she highlights how the USA is not unique in its experience of terrorism, it is, however, unique in that its response is full scale war.
The emotional call for peace from September 11 families broke my heart. The solidarity between the victims of terrorism in the USA and the victims of terrorism by the USA struck me.
Adhaf Soueif wrote a great piece about how Egypt, a place influenced by so many cultures and anthologies was once a ground where you could take the best of each to create a peaceful and prosperous land. However, US imperialism and hegemony has destroyed much of thst possibility. The call to action was a return to a society where we can all exist with the free exchange of ideas and thought.
Naomi Kelin wrote an excellent reflection of the war machine and how much of the economy now thrives from the instability of violence. They are the perpretrators and the beneficiaries of war, war that causes so much harm to people. Highlighted is Israel’s war dependent economy, and its influence on this global shift towards the “disastor capitalism complex”
The most beautifil writing came from Arundhati Roy, a novelist. Based in the theme of horrible things that have happened in November, she highlights how the USA is not unique in its experience of terrorism, it is, however, unique in that its response is full scale war.
July 20, 2022
Just finished this! As someone who doesn’t know anywhere near as much as I should do about the GWOT and its history, I found the essays in this collection to be incredibly useful and engaging. This collection offers a broad range of voices and perspectives - including a graphic novel segment from Joe Sacco and, at the end, a powerful essay from Naomi Klein on the disaster capitalism complex. I would recommend these essays to anyone seeking more, or deeper, knowledge on the subject.
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