"Hijacking Catastrophe - 9/11, Fear, Selling American Empire" (71mins), produced in 2004, the documentary movie 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. Hijacking Catastrophe, produced by The Media Education Foundation (MEF), is powerful, understated, straightforward and educational. It shows how the Bush administration has used the trauma of 9/11 and the war on terrorism to advance a radical and longstanding neo-conservative plan for global geopolitical domination. It is an explosive and empowering information weapon against political liars.
"Hijacking Catastrophe - 9/11, Fear, Selling American Empire" 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 - 9/11, Fear, Selling American Empire" 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 pre-emptive 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 Ret Master Sergeant Stan Goff.
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?
"Hijacking Catastrophe" is a riveting collection of 28 interviews with leading political thinkers. 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, Ret Lt Col Karen Kwiatkowski, | 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, and Jeremy Earp.
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