Hijacking Catastrophe...scared me

[springhill]

Has anyone else seen it? I was particularly taken aback by something that Daniel Ellsberg said in his interview. He was talking about how he believes that other countries will eventually align themselves together to oppose the United States if things continue on the same path. His warning sounded very ominous, like maybe a military attack against the United States.

Another point he brought up, which is something that I have been putting forward for some time, is the fact that he doesn't believe that they will ever accede power. If an election looks close or they are losing, they will manufacture whatever it takes to remain in power.

[Marnieworld]

1. Yup that's what they are doing

I thought Highjacking Catastrophe was excellent because it was so truthful. The truth is scary.

[mcscajun]

2. Sources, please?

What hijacking catastrophe? What interview? Links would be helpful.

:)

[springhill]

7. Here is a site where you can watch.......

Pretty eye- opening.

Catastrophe

- by Karen Kwiatkowski (Lt. Col. USAF retired)

Better than anyone to date, the Media Education Foundation has quietly and accurately documented the most important history of 21st century thus far in their recent video and DVD release, Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear, and the Selling of American Empire.

Hijacking Catastrophe is powerful, understated, straightforward and educational. In a single meticulously organized hour of evidence and analysis, viewers are treated to a thoughtful explanation of modern American empire, neo-conservatism as a driving force for the current Bush administration, and something I have not seen before, a real economic analysis of what is driving some of our current "global war on terror."

The film examines the Bush Administration’s investment in neo-conservatism, and the early, and already horrific, results. While past performance is no guarantee of future earnings, Hijacking Catastrophe shows exactly why America’s "new conservatism" is a pyramid scheme of inhumane proportions.

The film examines eight aspects of the current situation of American foreign policy. The film provides an explanation for the obvious continuity between Cold War policies and those of the present. It examines long-term neoconservative thinking and how this peculiar version of Jacobin utopianism ascended from its rather inauspicious political roots. The film explores the dangerous territory of how the post 9-11 national shock was carefully cultivated by neoconservatives in Washington to support their own long-held objectives in the Middle East.

Hijacking Catastrophe then documents the Pentagon and White House process of disinformation, exaggeration, and media-supported propaganda between 9-11 and America’s March 2003 invasion of Iraq. It describes the neoconservative vision of military dominance over a supine, energy-rich Middle East, not only for its own sake, but as a warning to other potential international rivals.

Hijacking Catastrophe describes the cost of empire in a way so comprehensive that it becomes clear that neo-conservatism, as a foreign policy guide, comes with a very real moral, political and financial garnishment of every American, and of American children yet unborn. The cost is shown not only as a current financial outlay or in lives unlived on the part of soldiers and marines, but in terms of an alarming debt burden, loss of domestic freedom, the growing and invasive state, a permanent tattering of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6895.htm

[mitchtv]

3. Have not seen it , but I understand ther BRIC group

will be formed to stop US imperialism(Brazil,Russia,India, China) They will be joined by Iran and Venezuela

[ulTRAX]

4. the BEST documentary of 2004? Here's more info.......

I started a thread on it a few weeks back: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2889899

[RuleofLaw]

5. I read in the Christian Science Monitor,

that the bestselling book in Turkey right now, is a fiction book about a coming war between Turkey and the US, where us is attacking from Iraq. The surprise of the book is that Europe and Russia comes to the aid of Turkey and defeat the US. And this is in a supposedly allied country. I will try to find the story.

Found it:

http://search.csmonitor.com/search_content/0215/p01s04-woeu.html

Sure it's fiction. But many Turks see fact in anti-US novel.

ISTANBUL, TURKEY – The year is 2007. After a clash with Turkish forces in northern Iraq, US troops stage a surprise attack. Reeling, Turkey turns to Russia and the European Union, who turn back the American onslaught. This is the plot of "Metal Storm," one of the fastest- selling books in Turkish history. The book is clearly sold as fiction, but its premise has entered Turkey's public discourse in a way that sometimes seems to blur the line between fantasy and reality.

"The Foreign Ministry and General Staff are reading it keenly," Murat Yetkin, a columnist for the Turkish daily newspaper Radikal, recently wrote. "All cabinet members also have it."

[Eloriel]

6. Sounds about right to me

Welcome to the Reality Clue Train.

Most of us have been sidling up to an understanding that pretty well tracks with this for some time now. It can be a little jolting if you bump up against it all at once, but it's necessary for you to know and understand, no matter how you get there.