Why We Fight, Film
James Ledbetter's Book, Unwarranted Influence
William Hartung's Book, Prophets of War
OMNI CENTER FOR PEACE JUSTICE AND ECOLOGY continues its video series on post-World War II Empire.
Our next film is WHY WE FIGHT, about the military–industrial complex President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned the nation against in his Farewell Address. Why We Fight was first screened at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, exactly forty-four years after Eisenhower's farewell address. It won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary.
The film will be shown SUNDAY, MARCH 13, at 7 PM at the OMNI Center, 3274 Lee Ave. in Fayetteville, a block north of Office Depot. Film length is 99 minutes. Contact Dick Bennett 442-4600. Phone Gladys Tiffany at OMNI 935-4422.
Related Reading:
Bill Hartung. Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex. Nation Books, 2011.
James Ledbetter. Unwarranted Influence: Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Military Industrial Complex. Yale UP, 2011.
Additional Information about the film:
Why We Fight, directed by Eugene Jarecki, is a 2005 documentary film about the military–industrial complex. The title refers to the World War II-era eponymous propaganda movies commissioned by the U.S. Government to justify their decision to enter the war against the Axis Powers.
Why We Fight was first screened at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival on 17 January 2005, exactly forty-four years after President Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address. It won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary. It received a limited public cinema release on 20 January 2005, and then was released on DVD on 27 June 2005, by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
Synopsis
Why We Fight describes the rise and maintenance of the United States military–industrial complex (originally called the military–industrial–congressional complex by Eisenhower) and its fifty-year causative involvement with the wars led by the United States to date, especially its 2003 Invasion of Iraq. The documentary asserts that in every decade since World War II, the American public was misled so that the Government (incumbent Administration) could take them to war, fuel the military-industrial economy, and maintain American political dominance in the world. Interviewed about this matter, are politician John McCain, political scientist and former-CIA analyst Chalmers Johnson, politician Richard Perle, neoconservative commentator William Kristol, writer Gore Vidal, and public policy expert Joseph Cirincione.
Why We Fight documents the consequences of US foreign policy with the stories
of a Vietnam War veteran whose son was killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks, and who then asked the military to write the name of his dead son on any bomb to be dropped in Iraq;
of a twenty-three-year-old New Yorker who enlists in the United States Army because he was poor and in debt, his decision impelled by his mother's death;
and of a female military explosives scientist who arrived in the U.S. as a refugee child from Vietnam in 1975.
Do you want to increase your understanding of why the USA intervened or invaded over fifty nations since 1945 and is occupying two nations and bombing two more today? SEE THIS FILM AND READ THESE BOOKS.
James Ledbetter. Unwarranted Influence: Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Military Industrial Complex. Yale UP, 2011.
James Ledbetter - 2011 - Biography & Autobiography - 268 pages
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