Hijacking Catastrophe: "Bring it On" pt. 1 (8 of 10)

http://www.HIJACKINGCATASTROPHE.org

"By helping us understand how fear is being actively cultivated and manipulated by the current administration, Hijacking Catastrophe stands to become an explosive and empowering information weapon in this decisive year in U.S. history."
Naomi Klein | Author, No Logo

"The Media Education Foundation has been carrying out vitally important work on major issues of the day, in a highly meritorious effort to raise public awareness and understanding, work that is particularly crucial in advance of the coming election, which may well cast a long shadow over the country's future."
Noam Chomsky | Professor of Linguistics, MIT


"The next Presidential election will be a watershed mark in our history and the urgency of producing and distributing materials that show exactly what is at stake has never been higher. Hijacking Catastrophe will be a vital tool in the campaign to rescue American democracy from its internal enemies. It will enrage and empower as it enlightens and explains."
Robert McChesney | Author, Rich Media, Poor Democracy


�What it really comes down to is this: Are the American voters going to sit still for this? Are we going to treat our democracy like some sort of spectator sport, like watching the Super Bowl, or are we going to ask a little more of ourselves this time? Are we going to explore the Bush Administration�s claims? Are we going to look at the details of what this administration has actually done?�
William Hartung | Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute


The 9/11 terror attacks continue to send shock waves through the American political system. Continuing fears about American vulnerability alternate with images of American military prowess and patriotic bravado in a transformed media landscape charged with emotion and starved for information. The result is that we have had little detailed debate about the radical turn US policy has taken since 9/11.


Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire examines how a radical fringe of the Republican Party has used the trauma of the 9/11 terror attacks to advance a pre-existing agenda to radically transform American foreign policy while rolling back civil liberties and social programs at home.


The documentary places the Bush Administration's false justifications for war in Iraq within the larger context of a two-decade struggle by neoconservatives to dramatically increase military spending in the wake of the Cold War, and to expand American power globally by means of military force.


At the same time, the documentary argues that the Bush Administration has sold this radical and controversial plan for aggressive American military intervention by deliberately manipulating intelligence, political imagery, and the fears of the American people after 9/11.


Narrated by Julian Bond, Hijacking Catastrophe features interviews with more than twenty prominent political observers, including Pentagon whistleblower Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, who witnessed first-hand how the Bush Administration set up a sophisticated propaganda operation to link the anxieties generated by 9/11 to a pre-existing foreign policy agenda that included a preemptive war on Iraq.


Joining Kwiatkowski in a wide-ranging, accessible, and ultimately empowering analysis of American foreign policy, media manipulation, and their global and domestic implications, are former Chief UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter, former Pentagon analyst Daniel Ellsberg, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams, author Norman Mailer, MIT professor Noam Chomsky, Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin, defense policy analyst William Hartung, author Chalmers Johnson, and Army Special Forces Master Sergeant Stan Goff (Ret.).


At its core, the film places the deceptions of the Bush Administration within the larger frame of questions seldom posed in the mainstream: What, exactly, is the agenda that drove the administration's pre-war deceptions? How is 9/11 being used to sell this agenda? And what are the stakes for America, Americans, and the world if this agenda succeeds in being fully implemented during a second Bush term?

INTERVIEWS INCLUDE
Tariq Ali | Benjamin Barber | Medea Benjamin | Noam Chomsky | Kevin Danaher | Mark Danner | Shadia Drury | Michael Dyson | Daniel Ellsberg | Michael Franti | Stan Goff | William Hartung
Robert Jensen | Chalmers Johnson | Jackson Katz | Michael T. Klare | Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski (Ret.) | Norman Mailer | Zia Mian | Mark Crispin Miller | Scott Ritter | Vandana Shiva | Norman Solomon | Greg Speeter | Fernando Suarez del Solar | Immanuel Wallerstein | Jody Williams | Max Wolff

Directed by Sut Jhally & Jeremy Earp

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• MEF
• Iran
• Bush
• War
• Neocons
• Neoconservatives
• Iraq
• Empire
• Propaganda
• 9/11
• WMD
• EFP
• oil
• media
• Rumsfeld
• Cheney

[AiresQX4]

I would invite Osama Binladen in my house before Bush or any other Neocon!! Especially

considering Bush had more to do with 911 than

any so called muslim extremist!! Sheeple

need to stop being so guillable! It's embarrassing to be American sometimes!

[Gwenlj]

Bush should be charged for war crimes! He is a LIAR!

[vdubs4life1964]

obama never served..

[danpt2000]

The world might be fine, not sure about you or Americans in general.

[PatriotMcCain]

Obama?

[mookixox]

Step 1) ALLOW muslim extremists to attack america on 9/11. Step 2) Become the most powerful unchallenged govt in american history. Step 3) Go to war for oil and kill 50 civilians to every 1 dead terrorist. Step 4) Lose all credibility on the world stage and spend trillions of tax payer dollars. Step 5) sit and wait for the "back lash" which is going to be well-deserved :)

[panzermatt]

at least Hitler was a decorated soldier. Plus most of his generals had sons who were killed during the war. Doenitz sons served in the u-boats, and died. fritz witt who was killed also lost his his brother. there is a huge difference between germany ww2 and america now.

[JixMa]

It's simply amazing just what's going on and gets reported on, yet no one seems to lift a finger to stop this or change the course the U.S. has undertaken.

It's like we're all just watching it happen before our eyes, in slow-motion, this transformation from democratic rule to fascist rule and we're immobilized with fear from governmental reprisals if we speak out against the government.

Man! This must be just how pre-Nazi Germany was gradually transformed into the fascist state it became.

[distressed7]

Yes indeed. Bohemian Grove is a big haunt for the Sausage Elite. Can you imagine, that our leaders are all, by and large, members of this shit group? Honestly, we should never obey a predator gang like this.

[distressed7]

Whitey is an asshole. Plain and simple. Delusional is too good a word. Robots do not have delusions. Poor guy. Asshole or not, yhere is a pathetic example of a moron with a title. Gee? So what else is new?

[jackiechan511]

I wonder why GW Bush won't send his two daughters in Iraq. If he won't then that proves one thing. He is using American soldiers as scapegoats for his own interests. Micheal Moore did this in Fairenheit 9/11 where he confronted senators who won't send their children to Iraq.