Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space

[RebelDog]

Anyone seen this, any good? The title instantly attracted me.


Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space is a documentary film by Denis Delestrac (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Delestrac) with a music score by Amon Tobin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amon_Tobin). The film deals with the issue of space weapons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_weapon) and their politics, featuring interviews with several key United States military personal, academics such as Noam Chomsky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky) and others, including Martin Sheen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Sheen). The film won the Best Documentary award at the 2009 Whistler Film Festival and has been selected in a number of international film festivals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Americana_and_the_Weaponization_of_Space

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1553156/

[Buffalo Souljah]

I have not seen the film, though it sounds interesting.

Chomsky writes somewhat of the "weaponization of space" in his latest, Hopes and Prospects (primarily in the latter half of the book, which focuses on North America [though the U.S. plays a central role in the whole substance of the book, which is 280+ pages long, plus an extensive list of notes and references]). I can't remember the exact chapters, and since someone stole my copy of the book (with all my markings and notes), I can't look them up, unfortunately.

It's an interesting subject, nonetheless. We're certainly giving the Russians a run for their money, if that says anything.

An interesting point Chomsky makes in the book (I'm sure this is repeated to some extent in any dialogue in the film) is that these weapons systems do not so much pose as a "deterrant" as they provide a specifically offensive role in neutralizing enemy weapons capacity (the whole "pre -emptive" bullshit policy used by both Bush I and Bush II to get the U.S. into the Persian Gulf both times), and is essentially a thinly-veiled scare tactic, which is an observation I think not so far off base. (The interesting thing about Chomsky is he provides evidence, something most bourgeois "theorists", by and large, do not do)