Hijacking Catastrophe: Empire (5 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

[todobeso70]

I sincerely believe that we if we don't impeach our country is dead. We have become everything we hate.

[jrm21386]

My God....What has our country become?....

[RealHarrySeaward]

I wonder how the liberal producers and contributor's in this video feel now that one of there own is in power yet the so called neocon policy of Bush has been expanded even further.

Political affiliation is irrelevant when the policies stay the same either way. We need to elect someone based on their actions and track record, not their political party or ability to give a good speech. Actions always speak louder than words. Obama's "hope and change" turned into smoke and grenades.

☆RP 2012☆

[skb0rzn]

@MelioraCogito HERE HERE!

[MelioraCogito]

@29render Do you seriously believe that a new resident at the White House could change the rotting foundations upon which the whole USGov is built & operates?

Every nook & cranny of the USGov is infested with termites (the corporate plutocracy). What do you do when you have termites in a house? You tear it down & build a new house.

Call upon soldiers to defend the Constitution; call upon federal employees to resign en-masse; support one another; re-build a broken nation. The world is waiting.

[monsieurkarl]

@jrm21386 Terrorists my friend... terrorists

[29render]

@todobeso70 How right you are proving to be! Too bad Obama is no better!

[PracticalTheorist]

@Natashenka91 Killing of innocent citizens can never be defended. Not in Germany, not in Iraq or anywhere. USA is an imperial bully who should be taken down a few notches the sooner the better. Court marshaling the people responsible is a good start.

[Natashenka91]

if USA did not bomb the hell out of Germany and killed alot of innocent Germans the world would be very different NOW!! Stop crying about Iraqi Hitler and start building new Iraqi nation without a butcher and dictatorship

[RichardE8ST]

One of the distructive results of the bush presidency is that the world looks at Americans as a bunch of george bush's even though most Americans hate mass murdering corrupt liars as much as they do. It was the republicans that elected bush and people should specify their bush/republican hatred towards them instead of Americans in general.

[ghahandi]

Freudian slip there ch-ch-cheney? "We came as conquerers.." ??? Between these two documentarys, you will get the big picture as to whom has been in control and wants to remain in control. PLEASE WATCH~ Just copy & paste in YouT ube search.

"Confessions of an Economic Hitman"

watch?v=yTbdnNgqfs8

and "Hijacking Catastrophe"

watch?v=SltOy_F6ZII ~and PLEASE~Spread the word~

[danpt2000]

Are there anymore Moderates with some influence inside the U.S. Govt. ?