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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 an...
"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
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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.
Intelligence failure? yeh right - halliburton etc got their money and civilian iraqis and U.S. troops are needlessly dying. These illegal wars are peremptive strikes on defenseless countries. Nuremberg rules applied to this would have Blair and Bush and Cheney et al hanged for war crimes. 911 had nothing to do with Iraq or Afghanistan. Most of the alleged hijackers were Saudis.
The USA has been paving the road towards global hegemony since the 2nd WW. Spared from the bulk of the destruction from the 2nd WW, and aided by the importation of Nazi Military Technology the USA has made itself a superpower of our Age. With the Dissolution of USSR, the USA has become the only Superpower in the world. Even with mounting debt, and domestic economy in shambles they cont. to seek to expand American military supremacy.
they were mostly Saudis - the ones blamed for it - yet some of the names we were given turned up alive. These guys couldnt fly cessnas yet we are led to believe they could fly airliners? Gimme a break. The planes were flown remotely via computer guidance - and the towers and wtc7 were controlled demolition. Look at the towers again - do you see a falling building that burned for a few hours? It's exploding all over manhattan - no fire or fall has the energy to turn a steel building to dust
I agree with you. I think it was a controlled demolition. You make a great point about how the buildings collapsed. This tragedy was exactly what was needed to get this war against "terror" going and take rights away from civilians.
yes sadly it was all a lie to initiate the military industrial complex. And a war on terror is just an exercise in fear. The people we should fear most are in government. The patriot act destroys the constitution - America is a constitutional republic not a democracy and Bin Laden didn't do that - the government did - and it was written before 9/11 and brought in after and no senator got the chance to even read it - read Goering's quote on war - it's scary in that it applies directly to 9/11
Typing a word such as "emplore" has nothing to do with misspelling a word: the 'e' key and the 'i' key are miles apart on the keyboard. Writing a word that doesn't exist ("emplore") says to an educated person that you have no idea how to spell words. You spell phonetically, which is, you hear a word and spell it however you feel like spelling it. People who read are used to seeing words spelled correctly. You do not read.
Waht does any of this have to do with you "agreeing" with me?
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911 had nothing to do with Iraq or Afghanistan. Most of the alleged hijackers were Saudis.
"That wasn't American Airlines!" I think was a lady's exact words during the initial impact.
Also, one guy from the Middle East said that he saw his name as one of the dead hijackers and he has never been to the US.
And a war on terror is just an exercise in fear.
The people we should fear most are in government. The patriot act destroys the constitution - America is a constitutional republic not a democracy and Bin Laden didn't do that - the government did - and it was written before 9/11 and brought in after and no senator got the chance to even read it - read Goering's quote on war - it's scary in that it applies directly to 9/11
"We don't need the government! We're rough tough men the way God made us!"
Tell me that this is not how you think about yourself.
Question:
How would you like it if someone stole from you?
Waht does any of this have to do with you "agreeing" with me?