Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & The Selling Of American Empire

Jeremy Earp and Sut Jhally's documentary shuns FAHRENHEIT 9/11's audience-friendly mix of provocative reporting and clownish bombast in favor of a more sober approach. But it's just as angry and challenging, arguing persuasively that far from being a consequence of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Bush administration's war in Iraq is actually the product of a post-Cold War neoconservative agenda designed to make America an imperial power. 9/11, the filmmakers contend, was simply an excuse to indulge in cynical fear-mongering which, combined with a program of slick misinformation lapped up by entertainment-hungry news media, prepared Americans to a...