Minister of Culture advised seeing a documentary on current international situation. This film was shown at the Sundance Festival of 2005 and won the Grand Jury Prize. It is the work of director Eugene Jarecki and follows the very public warning of President Eisenhower as he departed the White House after 8 years. In a speech that was televised nationally he gave a stern warning that the military-industrial complex currently stretching its tentacles across the land could erode the principles of Democracy found in our Constitution.
He graphically makes his case as he follows our late 20th-early 21st century military interventions around the world. Hardly a continent has been spared the onslaught of a modern military force, backed by some of the most avaricious corporations in existence. Very simply put, his warning came true as we have witnessed the transformation of a national defense force to one of aggressive pre-emptive intervention wherever the military/corp complex believes THEIR interests are threatened in fact or in theory.
This film should be widely watched and commented on by all thinking Americans. The mechinations of the Pentagon are presented in full view. Pres't's Clinton, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy, Bush I, Bush II, and Reagan are all there. Jimmy Carter didn't make the cut-must of been down on the peanut farm.
It was funded by the BBC, of all sponsors.
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