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Hijacking Catastrophe

Rating:No Rating
Genre:Documentary
Release Date:September 10, 2004
Running time:68 minutes
Cast:Julian Bond, Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg, Karen Kwaitkowski, Michael Franti
Director:Sut Jhally, Jeremy Earp
Producer:Sut Jhally, Jeremy Earp
Distributor:Media Education Foundation

Description: This documentary 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 at home. The film places the Bush Administration's false justifications for war in Iraq within the larger context of a two-decade struggle by neo-conservatives 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 film 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. The chronicle features interviews with more than 20 prominent political observers, including Pentagon whistleblower Lt. Colonel (retired) Karen Kwiatkowski. 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?

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