Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004)

User Rating:

7.7/10   

Directors:

Jeremy Earp
Sut Jhally

Genre:

Documentary

Plot Keywords:

New York | Narration | New York City | Manhattan | Politics

Cast

Tariq Ali	...	Himself
Benjamin Barber	...	Himself
Medea Benjamin	...	Herself
Julian Bond	...	Narrator
Noam Chomsky	...	Himself
Kevin Danaher	...	Himself
Mark Danner	...	Himself
Shadia Drury	...	Herself
Michael Dyson	...	Himself
Daniel Ellsberg	...	Himself
Michael Franti	...	Himself
Stan Goff	...	Himself
William Hartung	...	Himself
Robert W. Jensen	...	Himself
Chalmers Johnson	...	Himself
Jackson Katz	...	Himself
Michael Klare	...	Himself (as Michael T. Klare)
Karen Kwiatkowski	...	Herself (as Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski Ret.)
Norman Mailer	...	Himself
Zia Mian	...	Himself
Mark Crispin Miller	...	Himself
Scott Ritter	...	Himself
Vandana Shiva	...	Herself
Norman Solomon	...	Himself
Greg Speeter	...	Himself
Fernando Suarez del Solar	...	Himself
Immanuel Wallerstein	...	Himself
Jody Williams	...	Herself
Max Wolff	...	Himself

Runtime:

USA:68 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:Unrated

Company:

Media Education Foundation

The movie that F 9-11 should have been!

Wow! Just watched this movie last night, and I didn't sleep well at all. I saw Fahrenheit 9-11 and found it to be entertaining, but too biased to be taken seriously. This movie, however, gave me chills and I am already quite familiar with the material discussed. It is an hour well spent and goes a long way toward educating the average American about NeoConservative views and how they have now become the dominant force in American politics. This movie is a MUST SEE if you ever care to truly understand why we are in Iraq and Afghanistan and why we're not leaving (so long as Bush and the NeoCons are in power anyway)!

The main difference between this movie and the others which have tried to target the Bush Administration so fiercely is that this one actually shows the extreme economic costs of waging continuous wars with those we don't agree with, and leaves it mostly to the viewer to decide whether never-ending war and American Imperialism is the correct course to take with so many other pervasive domestic problems of our own to deal with (not to mention the myriad of social and political costs). It is also the first movie (and even book for the most part) I have ever seen/read that deals even remotely with the very serious and deep-level links between the NeoCons in the Bush administration and the Israel leadership (read the extended interview w/ ex-Pentagon agent Karen Kwiatkowski (Lt. Col. USAF retired).

Invite your friends, family and neighbors to watch this movie with you because this is the true debate Americans should be having and not whether some rich kid did his duty in 'Nam thirty years ago. Enjoy!