War on Terror

Another test in internationalism or campism, in addition to solidarity with Palestine, is whether or not people understood the consequences of George Bush's and Tony Blair's "War on Terror", the carceral logic and the complex global network of prisons and torture sites. Russian Federation used the war against the Caucasus and People's Republic of China used Xinjiang as pretexts for supporting U.S. "War on Terror", the American invasion of Afghanistan and financing the war in Iraq. Many countries such as France and Canada set up detention centers with Iran, Qaddafi and Assad becoming assets for overseas CIA torture sites.

* "The left's Warriors on Terror" by Michael Degerald https://www.aljumhuriya.net/en/content/lefts-warriors-terror [EN]
* "No! Idlib Is Not A ‘Terrorist Enclave’" by Sina Zekavat https://www.mangalmedia.net/english//no-idlib-is-not-a-terrorist-enclave [EN]
* "US: Torture and Rendition to Gaddafi’s Libya" https://www.hrw.org/news/2012/09/05/us-torture-and-rendition-gaddafis-libya [EN]
* "US-Led Abuse and Rendition of Opponents to Gaddafi’s Libya" https://www.hrw.org/report/2012/09/05/delivered-enemy-hands/us-led-abuse-and-rendition-opponents-gaddafis-libya [EN]; "الانتهاكات وعمليات تسليم الخصوم قسراً إلى ليبيا في عهد القذافي بإشراف أمريكي" https://www.hrw.org/ar/report/2012/09/06/257975 [AR]

### **News Articles**

* "China may send peacekeeping force to Afghanistan after US troops leave, observers say" https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3129707/china-may-send-peacekeeping-force-afghanistan-after-us-troops [EN] (owned by Alibaba)
* "How MI6 deal sent family to Gaddafi's jail" by Ian Cobain*,* Mustafa Khalili and Mona Mahmood https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/sep/09/how-mi6-family-gaddafi-jail [EN] (owned by Scott Trust Limited)
* "India has a role to play in combating terror: Syria President Bashar al-Assad" https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/india-has-a-role-to-play-in-combating-terror-syria-president-bashar-al-assad-2988766/ [EN]
* "Kashmir is India's internal issue: Syria"" https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/Kashmir-is-India%E2%80%99s-internal-issue-Syria/article14583766.ece [EN] (owned by The Hindu Group)
* "The road to Damascus: What explains India’s upcoming outreach to Syria’s Bashar al-Assad?" by Kabir Taneja https://scroll.in/article/814193/the-road-to-damascus-what-explains-indias-upcoming-outreach-to-syrias-bashar-al-assad [EN] (owned by Scroll Media Incorporation)
* "U.S. targets Chinese Uighur militants as well as Taliban fighters in Afghanistan" by F. Brinley Bruton and Tony Brown https://www.nbcnews.com/news/ncna845876 [EN] (owned by Comcast Corporation)
* "U.S. wins support from China" by Alex Frew McMillan and Major Garrett https://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/10/19/bush.jiang.apec/index.html [EN]
* "How 9/11 helped China wage its own false ‘war on terror’" by Kristian Petersen https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/9/8/how-9-11-helped-china-wage-its-own-false-war-on [EN]
* "Out of Guantánamo, Uighurs Bask in Bermuda" by Erik Eckholm https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/world/americas/15uighur.html [EN]

### **Magazine Articles**

* "Inside the CIA's Secret Prisons Program" by Vivienne Walt http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1546119,00.html [EN] (used to be owned by Time Warner and Time Inc., currently owned by Time USA, LLC)
* "Syria on Kashmir issue: India has the right to solve it in any manner" by Gautam Datt https://www.indiatoday.in/mail-today/story/syria-india-jammu-kashmir-pakistan-terrorism-337256-2016-08-26 [EN]
* "How the War on Terrorism Did Russia a Favor" by Simon Shuster http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2093529,00.html [EN]
* "Is China Bringing Peace to Afghanistan?" by Sudha Ramachandran https://thediplomat.com/2018/06/is-china-bringing-peace-to-afghanistan/ [EN] (owned by Trans-Asia Inc.)
* "Don’t Expand the War on Terror in the Name of Antiracism" by Arun Kundnani and Jeanne Theoharis https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/11/war-on-terror-domestic-terrorism-act-racism-muslims [EN]
* "How China hijacked the war on terror — with U.S. help" by Phelim Kine https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-china-watcher/2021/09/09/how-china-hijacked-the-war-on-terror-with-us-help-494251 [EN]

### **Statements**

* "Syrian demands for Idlib" https://web.archive.org/web/20201022090738/http://syrianbloc.com/2018/09/14/syrian-demands-for-idlib/?lang=en [EN]

### **Blog Posts**

* "The “Anti-Imperialist” Nations of Iran, Syria, and Libya Participated in the CIA Torture Program" https://web.archive.org/web/20150403165743/http://bennorton.com/the-anti-imperialist-nations-of-iran-syria-and-libya-participated-in-the-cia-torture-program/ [EN] (archived, Ben Norton deleted most of his tweets and posts before *The Grayzone* started associating with *RT*)
* "Reflections on Chechnya" by Louis Proyect https://louisproyect.org/2013/05/14/reflections-on-chechnya/ [EN]

### **Books**

* “Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism after the War on Terror” by Christine Delphy http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=1B8775A6AD0B19FA0970964D779B239A [EPUB, 2MB, EN]
* “Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Global Jihadist Movement: What Everyone Needs to Know” by Daniel Byman https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=0DC19E8D8AC72484C4934D8B4577AB4B [PDF, 2MB, EN]
* “The Thistle and the Drone: How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam“ by Akbar Ahmed https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=0FC7BBE3AF4401274C7799C87EA6A099 [PDF, 4MB, EN]
* "The War on the Uyghurs: China's Internal Campaign Against a Muslim Minority" by Sean R. Roberts http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=C98E5A83074B27525F4910D7FE4B9B06 [MOBI, 2 MB, EN]; http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=DAAC1B49FD1628C4AE280032992ED7A3 [PDF, 10MB, EN]
* "Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism" by Harsha Walia http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=8EAC74FAA4FCEE23031C91EB6963ECCA [EPUB, 7MB, EN]
* "Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Rendition and Torture Program" by Stephan Grey https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312360245 [EN]
* "Syria, the United States, and the War on Terror in the Middle East" by Robert G. Rabil http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=550A44DCA89D248A004867D86B26F9C3 [PDF, 1MB, EN]
* "Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump" by Spencer Ackerman https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5E69E1787DADC16C3FAD26524BBD2038 [EPUB, 886kb, EN]
* "China's War on Terrorism: Counter-Insurgency, Politics and Internal Security" by Martin I. Wayne https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=29E7EB26A13B1E27E3E9324DB0F281C3 [PDF, 1007kb, EN] (WARNING!- neoconservative analysis advocating for USA to copy Chinese counter-insurgency programs)

### **Documents**

* “Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Dentention and Extraordinary Rendition” by Open Society Justice Initiative https://www.justiceinitiative.org/uploads/655bbd41-082b-4df3-940c-18a3bd9ed956/globalizing-torture-20120205.pdf [PDF, 1.08MB, EN]
* "Oxford Union Debate (December 3, 1964)" by Malcom X http://malcolmxfiles.blogspot.com/2013/07/oxford-union-debate-december-3-1964.html [EN]

* "Delivered Into Enemy Hands: US-Led Abuse and Rendition of Opponents to Gaddafi’s Libya"https://web.archive.org/web/20190725145546/https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/libya0912webwcover\_1.pdf [PDF, 8.62MB, EN] (by Human Rights Watch which is treated with skepticism by anti-American alt-imperialists)

### **Encyclopedia**

* "War on terror" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War\_on\_terror [EN]
* "Operation Enduring Freedom" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation\_Enduring\_Freedom [EN]
* "Participants in Operation Enduring Freedom" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participants\_in\_Operation\_Enduring\_Freedom [EN]
* "Strike Hard Campaign Against Violent Terrorism" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike\_Hard\_Campaign\_Against\_Violent\_Terrorism [EN]
* "Second Chechen War" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second\_Chechen\_War [EN]
* "Insurgency in the North Caucasus" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurgency\_in\_the\_North\_Caucasus [EN]
* "Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian\_military\_intervention\_in\_the\_Syrian\_civil\_war [EN]

### **Websites**

* "The Rendition Project" https://www.therenditionproject.org.uk/ [EN]

### **Notes**

* Many anti-war socialists and anti-war libertarians who oppose the war in Iraq are silent on the American invasion of Afghanistan
	+ Bernie supported the war in Afghanistan
* Painting Afghan resistance to Soviet occupation as Islamic fundamentalists was retroactively retconned after Taliban rose to power in 1994 and prior to 2001 invasion of Afghanistan after 9/11
* Accusations of so-called "red-brown alliances" became popular in political discourses when social democrats, Communists (in name only) and socialists temporarily aligned with the far-right in regards to Islamophobia, border controls, anti-immigration and refugee crises to either preserve the welfare state, unquestioning Christian secularism (or ex-Christian atheism and ex-Christian agnosticism) or to break up the European Union superstate (into smaller fortified countries). There are overlaps with "green-brown alliances" when refugee crises and climate change become the crux of challenging national stability. Sometimes principled radicals (Marxists, anarchists, anti-fascists, anti-racists, prison abolitionists etc) refer to this tendency as "Fortress Europe" and "Euroscepticism".
* “Terrorist” label is meant to delegitimize, to push an individual or group beyond the pale of respectability. Russia and China both deployed rhetoric against “terror” prior to 9/11 (and, indeed, had real problems with separatist violence). Both used Bush’s declaration after 9/11 to launder their countries’ issues with separatist violence, presenting the problems as local manifestations of the Global War on Terror.