SCREENINGS AT THE SHOE FACTORY

Sunday 22 January 2012

The Shoe Factory, 304 Ermou Str / 8.30pm

Entrance: Free

Screening: Why we fight

Director: Eugene Jarecki
Duration: 98’
Language: English
 

Why We Fight describes the rise and maintenance of the United States military–industrial complex and its fifty-year 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 could take them to war and fuel the military-industrial economy maintaining 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.

The Film won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary and one of the 2006 Grimme Awards in the competition "Information & Culture".