We're spending $2.5 BILLION a week on the "wars", no one knows why we're there, no one knows when they'll end, and we're fighting them longer than WWII with no end in sight hemorrhaging our economy and monetarily sinking our country.
Afghanistan is seeing escalating violence, with June being the bloodiest month for foreign troops since the start of the war. Senator John Kerry highlighted the fact that the military campaign surpassed Vietnam as the longest in U.S. history, during a meeting of the Foreign Relations Committee. And as congress assesses the grim statistics, the unpopular war is showing few signs of ending.
HIJACKING CATASTROPHE | 9/11, Fear & The Selling of American Empire
- 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.
How the Bush administration and the corporate media together sold us the wars:
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
WTC-7 - 47 story building fell demolition style a block away from the Twin Towers...it was NOT hit by a plane:
Testimony from media activist Lacy MacAuley after being snatched by an unmarked van at the Toronto G20.
Proof that the U.S. and Israel are trying to FAKE us into a war with Iran: Iranian man alleges "US abduction"
YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS - George Carlin
"Someday you'll realize the government doesn't give a fuck about you" - George Carlin
George Carlin and Bill Hicks tell it like it is:
A blast from the past - Diesel - Sausalito Summernight (sounds like Steve Miller Band, huh?)
Speaking of Steve Miller Band........
