Hijacking Catastrophe: Sorrows of Empire pt. 1 (6 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

[bapyou]

The "evil doers". I cringe every time I hear that idiot speak those words. How low have we sunk as a nation to have elected this moron twice? We deserve his stupidity. America is a nation of idiots.

[HeartAngel42]

I'll be damned!! Is this the United States or did George Bush change the name of this country to: The Second Reich of Germany, while we were sleeping..!!?? George Bush and his Neo-Nazi War-Mongers, need to move their asses back to Germany... if they want to pretend to dictate, somebody in this world..!!

The Whole Bush Admnistration, should be impeached, for illegally invading Iraq, 9/11,the war on BOGUS TERROR, and lieing to the American people. George Bush,is the DAMNED TERORIST!!

[JohnNiemsMusic]

END THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX NOW!!!!!! THEY HAVE NO ACCOUNTABILITY ON HOW MUCH THEY SPEND OR HOW MANY LIVES THEY KILL!

[SimmerInJuly]

A DOCTORED LIST of diseases sub-clinical is what the artisans of allopathy provide we, who are: doped up, underwhelmed, malnourished, vitamin-deficient, nutritionally-deprived, morally-depraved & Spiritually-vacant with the wherewithal to mask the symptoms of chronic metabolic ailments with immune-compromising, blood- intoxicating corrosives.

[SimmerInJuly]

Hobbism : the Hobbesian theory that absolutism in government is necessary to prevent the war of each against all to which natural selfishness inevitably leads Mankind.

[SimmerInJuly]

[U2's lead artiste, comrade Bono, sports a commie-red pentangle over his heart —FABULOUS! All hail the New World Order's Anglo-American Alliance!]

[SimmerInJuly]

In commemoration of every expeditionary force let us recall the era in which Austrian-born German Führer & humanitar-ian Adolf Hitler's National Socialist army invaded & occupied the sovereign nation of France to liberate oppressed French citizens. Let us toast to the memory of the era when Führer Adolf Hitler's National Socialist army invaded & occupied Poland, Czechoslo-vakia, Holland and other European nations so that these citizens could enjoy liberation too.

[SimmerInJuly]

Were Sydney Blackmer & Jack Paar the same guy? Are crotchless panties more alluring than strapless brassieres? Do fat women, in the back seat, provide for more traction on icy roads? Are pink tits nicer than red, brown or purple ones? These are the things what make for the proper rumination in the normal circles & digestive cycles that square the rotundity & profundity of all citizens.

[jackgoldman1]

George Washington and Osama Bin Laden, along with Adolph Hitler opposed the English Empire. Washington was not shot in the face but the English consider him a terrorist. English consider America a terrorist organization. America is the evil empire. Printing fake paper money bank notes financed this global terror empire that is buying up the world. Osama Bin Laden and George Washington stood up to the empire. America, Great Britain, and Israel are wrong. Osama bin Laden is right. What to do?

[pbatusa]

yaa.. the national debt was accelerated under the Bush war .. however; his second cousin? same goal in mind and same habits;; spend beyond our generation now - the banks ? they are owned by the global elite; as well as bush & Obama.

The Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline (TAP or TAPI) is a proposed natural gas pipeline being developed by the Asian Development Bank.[1][2][3]

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[tigerex777]

Americans worship weapons, look at teenagers and adults alike, their favorite games are first person shooting games. I bet if they could they would like the barrel of a rifle and orgasms all over their bodies. So disgusting how it has become in that country.

[TheProjektcc]

this is identical to Nazi germany. Instead of praising and idolizing real heroes to society like teachers, police, and doctors, people were falling in love with tiger tanks and Messerschmidt fighter planes. Tank drivers and fighter pilots were like super heroes to the kids.