Hijacking Catastrophe - Intro (1 of 10)

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"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

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  News & Politics

[Pokahontas81]

The american gov, constantly lies in order to take what it wants. They are the only terrorists ! They go and steal . They attack, invade, kill and take what they want all over the world not just Iraq. Latin America is another example. They hide behind the security of the nation excuse. Disgusting government.

[Bi0hazardx]

You owe it to your country to look into both sides of the 9/11 debate. There are many well researched videos, aside from the poorly done ones that turn people off like Loose change. Here are good places to start

911 connect the dots is a great video @ watch?v=HfmliaqIRBE

And Zero (by a Nobel Prize Winner) @ watch?v=ofXKiXNDDYA

NIST caught lying about Molten steel at ground zero weeks after. Undeniable Proof @

watch?v=8YaFGSPErKU

Architects and Engineers for 911 truth @ watch?v=K2Mor7udxJI&

[PeterBluth]

International law is a fallacy! The Nazis at Nuremburg even saw that!

[Wheelman stan]

nah I don't buy this, people come to america and bomb us because they are jealous,.......just kiddin', it's because we bomb them :(

[RackandTap Tillitsflat]

Osama Bin Laden Warned Of Attacks Three (3) Weeks Before 9/11

[mikecorbeil]

I wouldn't blame only Bush if I were you. To do so is far from the full truth.

[mikecorbeil]

Re. Loose Change being a good film, definitely NOT LC 1 and 2. 3 and possibly 4, if there is a 4, are greatly improved versions. For more info. about LC, people should read at the websites I referred to in a reply to Bi0hazardx a few minutes ago.

[mikecorbeil]

Correct about Loose Change 1 and 2, but 3 and/or 4 are much improved versions. 1 was pitifully bad. 2 had some improvements, tho certainly not enough. 3 and/or 4, forgetting how many there are in all, are very good improvements. This is according to 911review. com and 911research.wtc7. net (both by the same editor). Google those 2 websites for "Loose Change" and read plenty. Also worth checking/googling is oilempire. us.

[peter balloon]

Washington allowed Iraq to purchase poisonous chemicals, and even strains of anthrax and bubonic plague from American companies, which were subsequently identified as a

key components of the Iraqi biological warfare program by a 1994 investigation

conducted by the Senate Banking Committee.9 The exports of those

biological agents continued to at least November 28, 1989

[ForlornDespair]

Ughhhh 240p

[WanaCare GreenParty]

-Lose Change good film. Will watch other videos- I Do KNOW that NIST is propaganda report with author designer of invasion of IRaq before 9-11, which is Catastrophe used to PUT U.S. Citizens In a STATE OF SHOCK in order to accept the illegal crimes Bush did by preventing ANY EVIDENCE FROM being INVESTIGATED & causing the country and legislators to accept anything he said to do, including the Patriot Act & FISA & of course the Invasion of Iraq & the torture & murder of it's people.