[HCCN] film SUPERPOWER Friday 9/18 Blue Hill

[Judith Robbins]

reminder:
The Film Superpower will be shown Friday evening, Sept. 18 at Blue  
Hill Library 7:00 p.m.

Superpower is the September offering of the fall film series. Free;  
all are invited. Future films include:

October 16	AFTER STONEWALL
November 20	HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT




from the film web site:

Superpower is a well-executed and comprehensive film that asks tough  
questions and goes behind the scenes of America’s national security  
apparatus and military actions. Far from a conspiracy film about the  
dangers of government secrets and regime change, this well-balanced  
film straddles the philosophical divide and allows viewers to  
understand the US quest for global dominance through economic and  
military strategy that is exposed through review of historical  
events, personal interviews, and analysis of US foreign policy.

The heart of Superpower lies in the analysis produced from a re- 
examination of history through a series of interviews with  
historians, documentarians, and academians such as Bill Blum,  
Chalmers Johnson, Michael Chossudovsky, and Noam Chomsky, and others  
with expertise in this subject such as the Executive Producer of The  
Unit, Command Sergeant (Ret.) Eric Haney; former Chief Economist for  
the US Department of Labor, Morgan Reynolds; three-time Noble Peace  
Prize nominee, Kathy Kelly; and Lt. Col. (Ret) Karen Kwiatkowski.  
Examining key moments in America's history elicits a more consistent  
and plausible set of motives for US foreign policy actions guided by  
global expansion and military dominance, rather than the hyperbolic  
calls for democracy and totalitarian regime change that we have  
become so accustomed to hearing.

Should citizens trust that their government will keep them safe, a  
government that keeps secrets, and lies, in the name of national  
security? Does the simple act of withholding information lead to a  
world of eroding civil liberties and corruption? Superpower presents  
a view of US foreign policy, which lies in stark contrast to that  
depicted by corporate media, popular pundits, and US heads of state.  
With the fall of the Soviet Union, the US has emerged as the  
preeminent superpower of the world. Superpower illustrates how the  
United States has chosen to leverage that position to pursue a grand  
strategy which will ensure itself unilateral world domination through  
absolute economic and military superiority. It shows a consistent  
pattern of government deception.

The United States emerged from World War II with its industrial base  
still intact and the only nation with the atomic bomb. It was without  
question the most powerful country on earth. What was done with this  
unprecedented power, the effects it's had on our Republic and the  
rest of the world is the story of Superpower.


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