------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:28:18 -0500 From: "NOW-Update" <NOW-Update@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: This week on NOW Send reply to: NOW-Update-Feedback@xxxxxxxxxxxx NOW Friday, January 27, 2006 on PBS (Check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html) ============================================================== This week on NOW: * Military complex. Inside the American war machine with award-winning filmmaker EUGENE JARECKI. A David Brancaccio interview. * Wasting away. David Brancaccio talks with former Pentagon insider CHUCK SPINNEY about whether America is getting what it's paying for when it comes to defense. ============================================================== EUGENE JARECKI NOW gets perspective on the business of making war from award-winning filmmaker Eugene Jarecki. Jarecki's latest film WHY WE FIGHT examines the history of the politics and business of war and explores what it tells us about the war on terror and the war in Iraq. "You can almost see how necessary policy makers feel it is to lie to the public...to give us reasons like WMDs or the Gulf of Tonkin, equally powerful illusions, to convince us against our better judgment that going to war is necessary," says Jarecki. The film just opened in theaters after winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival last year. Jarecki's 2002 documentary THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER received the 2002 Amnesty International Award and was broadcast in over thirty countries. ============================================================== CHUCK SPINNEY "The defense budget is basically being governed by Cold war priorities," says former Pentagon analyst Chuck Spinney. "We're buying very, very little in terms of the kind of weapons that we need, to fight the kind of wars we're actually fighting." Spinney, who retired from the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Program Analysis and Evaluation after working in the Pentagon for almost three decades, is uniquely qualified to evaluate America's defense spending. During his tenure, he repeatedly challenged military officials and lawmakers to make better use of the hundreds of billions of dollars in spending to secure a strong defense. ============================================================== NOW continues online at PBS.org (www.pbs.org/now). Log on to get the numbers on defense spending; to find out how defense stacks up in the federal budget, in your state economy and in the world at large; to read Eisenhower's farewell address to the nation; to hear more from former Pentagon insider Chuck Spinney; to find out more about Eugene Jarecki's WHY WE FIGHT and THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER; and more. ============================================================= New Pacifica Working Group http://www.egroups.com/group/NewPacifica 'Save Our Stations!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewPacifica/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: NewPacifica-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/