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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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January 8th, 2009 at 04:34:59 May I remind you with all due respect, during the Hitler regime, the ppl were posioned. we are full of GM foods, chemtrails, flouride in our water, we are lied to constanlty on Tel-Lie-Vision, and most ppl are just trying to keep a tuna fish sandwich on the table. Now if our Miltary, which is now combined with U.N, foreigners, & Blackwater etc. police, or miltia do not stand up and do something kiss yourself goodbye. see "AGENDA 21" on youtube
January 8th, 2009 at 04:57:58 welll, some of us should be holding guns.
January 8th, 2009 at 05:20:57 Pls, don't let this go on, stop the Bush Mcain empire. pls.
January 8th, 2009 at 05:43:56 It is a good point u raise, we should be considering that.Thank u
January 8th, 2009 at 06:06:55 It's simply amazing just what's going on and gets reported on, yet no one seems to lift a finger to stop this or change the course the U.S. has undertaken. It's like we're all just watching it happen before our eyes, in slow-motion, this transformation from democratic rule to fascist rule and we're immobilized with fear from governmental reprisals if we speak out against the government. Man! This must be just how pre-Nazi Germany was gradually transformed into the fascist state it became.
January 8th, 2009 at 06:29:54 I wonder how many of our current U.S. troops will be coming home future serial murderers.
January 8th, 2009 at 06:52:53 @LTCjeff.. I found you barking at my door so here is a little piece of bone. Great empires have always eaten themselves from inside. Now put your sucker uniform on and go serve your country. McCain will be calling for your services.
January 8th, 2009 at 07:15:52 They just don't have Stealth's doing it. They also don't have the media control like your employers do. You know, you are so full of shit and yourself, Well? That's about equal. Anyway, what is funny is that you're the same asshole that said, "We will leave Iraq." Dude. We in Babylon, Jack. To stay. Green man? He stayin'! US Oil brothers got too much invested in dat' sand. That is no normal embassy. Troops like you may go. But Blackwater, DynCorps. Dey stayin'! You are sooo fuulll of shit.
January 8th, 2009 at 07:38:51 We do both. We will actually terrorize and then blame it on "terrorists". Then we come in with white hat robotons like Whitey may be, and then we have this press. This wonderful press. This media, under a few loaded sharks' control, and presto, "our brave men and women are fighting terrorism." Please. Spare me. MustRead:BY WAY OF DECEPTION:We Will Make War, Ostrowski,D.,Former MOSSAD officer. As far as WWII, Communism. Much of that horror is spawned by other horrors. Not H.S. textbook subjects.
January 8th, 2009 at 08:01:50 Dude. If Saddam Hussein had not done what Muhamad Mossadegh of Iran had done, and that is literally control his country's own oil, he would have, and with the blessings of Washington kill, torture and maim with impunity the entire nation if he wanted. Instead, we dethroned him. In Iran we gave them the loving Shah.;)In Iraq we pick the candidates. Sir, our earlier sanctions alone killed thousands of children, not to mention the enfeebled. We are fucking hypocrites, and you are one of their boys.
January 8th, 2009 at 08:24:49 Sure. Coming from such a hopeless phoneyass I know I am hitting home. You know Whitey. You're pretty stupid. But that's par. I go to your goofy homesite, and all I see is your fuckiing mug. C'mon man. You are a military clown. Another self-worshipping military goof-ball. I used to work with guys like you. Some were in. Some were never in. Reading SOF, Leatherneck, etc., all severely out of touch with anyone but their personal fantasies. You are a similar sick momma's boy with a military fetish.
January 8th, 2009 at 08:47:48 You are obviously much too thoroughly indoctrinated to comprehend your own myopia, and exhibit only a cursory (and self-serving) knowledge of history. I'm afraid that it is you who are 'grossly ignorant' or 'totally evil'. As I've said before, you lack credibility when you so clearly see the crimes of others, but are blind to the crimes of our empire. Intellectual dishonesty is not a virtue, nor is blind patriotism.
January 8th, 2009 at 09:10:47 Coming from you, such insults are compliments.
January 8th, 2009 at 09:33:46 Clinton's indiscretion and lying before court were the least of his infractions - -selling influence to the Communist Chinese in return for computer technologies, or ignoring the WTC bombing of 1993, letting Bin Laden go - these are all far worse. You are so adamant in your hatred of the United States - what are you, a Canadian? What is the ivory tower from which you deign to malign the most powerful human force for global good in the whole of history?
January 8th, 2009 at 09:56:45 You misrepresent history when you claim similarity between the conduct of the USA and that of murdering terrorists. You must deny any justification for any war ever, if you deny the justice of ridding the world of Adolf Hitler, or the Japanese Imperial threat to the Pacific Rim, or of fighting totalitarian Communism. In lekinging so-called "crimes" of the USA to the acts of those who mindlessly slaughter children at markets, you show yourself to be either grossly ignorant, or totally evil.
January 8th, 2009 at 10:19:44 distressed7's last post: "That's why your corporate boys built a palatial embassy larger than the Vatican. We will never leave Iraq. We will prop up government after government and we will have that phoney "democracy" where both puppets are from the strings of the Washington weasels who pussbrains like you suck off with your loyal dedication. Fuckoff. Fool." And you think he is articulate? We rid the region of worst mass murderer in its history, freeing 27 mil "Atrocity?"
January 8th, 2009 at 10:42:43 That's why your corporate boys built a palatial embassy larger than the Vatican. We will never leave Iraq. We will prop up government after government and we will have that phoney "democracy" where both puppets are from the strings of the Washington weasels who pussbrains like you suck off with your loyal dedication. Fuckoff. Fool.
January 8th, 2009 at 11:05:42 Wow! Heavy duty. What a deep and personable revelation. Whitey speaks. Remember to take your sunglasses off for your next recital. :) "I am not concerned with fashion..." says Whitey. With K-Mart like swords hanging in the background. Whitey is mad. Whitey no like it somebody banned him from You-Tube. Me too. I mad too. Whitey funny! I miss lil' Whitey. Whitey say he will deny them freedom. Whitey glare at camera. Whitey no blink. Ooooh! Whitey gonna' get you!Whitey like drunk.Poor Whitey.
January 8th, 2009 at 11:28:41 You assume too much, my friend. War is a political act; Terror is a tactic, Religion (to any god, be it to a state, nation or resource, or the 'standard of living' you dismiss) is the justification. You condemn the practice, rightly, but it is only a example of the small-time variety, when the empires do the same killing in other, larger ways. You lack credibility when you so clearly see the crimes of others, but are blind to the crimes of empire, when it was/is us who 'came across the seas'.
January 8th, 2009 at 11:51:40 Doom? I think you overestimate the power of Iran by a factor of about ten. Now were we to invade Russia or China, you might have a point to make.
January 8th, 2009 at 12:14:39 The War on Terrorism is just that. Politics or religion are not the issue. be a Muslim. be an Arab. be a Nationalist. be a protectionist oil-worshipper. Just never come across the sae to blow up any innocent people. Just never wear a bomb vest to a market. Never send a truck laden with explosives into the hospital... "Standards of living" are a concept for those who have too much. No liberty is guarded when whole people become slaves...
January 8th, 2009 at 12:37:38 I was thinking "anything is better than this serial traitor Kerry, with his false testimony claiming that we were 'the greatest war criminals in Vietnam'" I was also thinking: "Sure would be nice if we could continue to pursue this war with everything required to win it, and not play politics with an important region, and the world, as Kerry has twice done. Further, I thought: "It sure if great to have a candidate that is a genuine person who cares and seems to be dedicated to his duty."
January 8th, 2009 at 13:00:37 We can soon withdraw large numbers. Thanks again.
January 8th, 2009 at 13:23:36 Iraq is a stunning victory - 27,000,000 people freed from the worst mass-murderer in the region's history - all at less sacrifice than was required to purchase a MILE of France in a single DAY on June 6, '44. No use asking what your political party affiliation is... You opine in a way which is utterly nthinkable by anyone motivated by anything but politics... Thanks for your confidence in the finest Army of history - we don't ned it. Just the prayers of a few... and the help of One.
January 8th, 2009 at 13:46:35 You will crap and fall back in it, is my prediction. You show no evidence of being a man of anything but words here.