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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>reminder:</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">The Film Superpower will be shown Friday evening, Sept. 18 at Blue Hill Library 7:00 p.m.</span></font></div><div><br></div><div>Superpower is the September offering of the fall film series. Free; all are invited. Future films include:</div><div><br></div><div>October 16<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>AFTER STONEWALL</div><div>November 20<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>from the film web site:</div><div><br></div><div><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#7a6c8d" style="font: 14.0px Verdana; color: #7a6c8d"><b><i>Superpower</i></b></font><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#0f0f0f" style="font: 14.0px Verdana; color: #0f0f0f"> 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.</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#0f0f0f" style="font: 14.0px Verdana; color: #0f0f0f">The heart of </font><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#7a6c8d" style="font: 14.0px Verdana; color: #7a6c8d"><b><i>Superpower</i></b></font><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#0f0f0f" style="font: 14.0px Verdana; color: #0f0f0f"> 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 <b>The Unit</b>, 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.</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#0f0f0f" style="font: 14.0px Verdana; color: #0f0f0f">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? </font><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#7a6c8d" style="font: 14.0px Verdana; color: #7a6c8d"><b><i>Superpower</i></b></font><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#0f0f0f" style="font: 14.0px Verdana; color: #0f0f0f"> 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. </font><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#7a6c8d" style="font: 14.0px Verdana; color: #7a6c8d"><b><i>Superpower</i></b></font><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#0f0f0f" style="font: 14.0px Verdana; color: #0f0f0f"> 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.</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#0f0f0f" style="font: 14.0px Verdana; color: #0f0f0f">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 </font><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#7a6c8d" style="font: 14.0px Verdana; color: #7a6c8d"><b><i>Superpower</i></b></font><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#0f0f0f" style="font: 14.0px Verdana; color: #0f0f0f">.</font></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 14.0px Verdana; color: #0f0f0f; min-height: 17.0px"><br></p></div></body></html>