The BBC presents Why We Fight by Charlotte Street, a documentary on the commerce of war, and how the military industrial complex profits so much from war, that it must create wars to continue the growth of it's business. A classic must-see film.
The BBC presents Why We Fight by Charlotte Street, a documentary on the commerce of war, and how the military industrial complex profits so much from war, that it must create wars to continue the growth of it's business. A classic must-see film.
The BBC presents Why We Fight by Charlotte Street, a documentary on the commerce of war, and how the military industrial complex profits so much from war, that it must create wars to continue the growth of it's business. A classic must-see film.
This episode explains how politicians on the left, in both Britain and America, turned to the techniques developed by business to read and fulfil the inner desires of the self. Both New Labour, under Tony Blair, and the Democrats, led by Bill Clinton, used the focus group, which had been invented by psychoanalysts, in order to regain power. They set out to mould their policies to people's inner desires and feelings, just as capitalism had learnt to do with products. Out of this grew a new culture of public relations and marketing in politics, business and journalism. One of its stars in Britain was Matthew Freud who followed in the footsteps of his relation, Edward Bernays, the inventor of public relations in the 1920s. The politicians believed they were creating a new and better form of democracy, one that truly responded to the inner feelings of individual. But what they didn't realise was that the aim of those who had originally created these techniques had not been to liberate the people but to develop a new way of controlling them.
1961 warnte der scheidende US-Präsident Dwight D. Eisenhower in seiner Abschiedsrede vor der zunehmenden Verflechtung von Militär und Industrie und dem wachsenden Einfluss dieses ‘militärisch-industriellen Komplexes’ auf die Politik der Vereinigten Staaten. Mehr als 40 Jahre später ist diese Warnung mehr denn je aktuell. Schon immer waren Kriege auch gut für die Geschäfte, jetzt aber sind Unternehmen direkt am Krieg beteiligt. Im Irak-Krieg haben die USA ihr Gewaltmonopol aufgegeben und klassisches militärisches Handeln ist an zahlreiche Privatfirmen ausgelagert worden. Dabei ist ein undurchsichtiges Netz von Söldnern, Sicherheitsdiensten und Spezialeinheiten entstanden, deren Aktivitäten nur schwer zu kontrollieren sind. Der New Yorker Filmemacher Eugene Jarecki bietet in seiner Dokumentation ‘Why We Fight - Die guten Kriege der USA’ eine schonungslose Innenansicht der Vereinigten Staaten.
National Geographic, Egypt Eternal Quest for Lost Tombs, the archaeologists take viewers along as they uncover tombs meant to last for eternity. For 3,000 years, across 31 Egyptian dynasties, Saqqara served as a burial place for royalty, government officials, courtiers, aristocrats, and even commoners. Sitting across the river from Memphis, Egypt's first capital city, the vast necropolis is the site of the world's very first pyramid—the Step Pyramid of King Djoser—a monument designed to ease the ancient pharaoh's passage to the afterlife.
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