Well done documentary on the usage of propaganda to further the war agenda. It is one of the simplest ways of engaging people to rally around the
costs and hidden costs of war. Amazing how the tactics have not changed from the past to the present and the fact that people are still rallying round
the sounds of the war cries is astounding. Do we not learn from the past?
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Topic started on 20-3-2008 @ 09:14 AM by AboveTopSecret.com
War Made Easy:
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Narrated by Sean Penn and based on the work of media critic and best-selling author Norman Solomon, who traveled with Penn to Baghdad just before the war to call attention to the dangers of a U.S. invasion, WAR MADE EASY reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose 50 years of government spin and media collusion that has dragged our country into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. With remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, the documentary exposes how presidential administrations of both parties have relied on a combination of deception and media complicity to sell one war after another to the American people.
Giving special attention to parallels between Vietnam and Iraq, WAR MADE EASY sets government spin and media collusion from the present alongside virtually identical patterns from the past, guided by Solomon s meticulous research and tough-minded analysis. Rare footage of political leaders and journalists from the past includes Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and news correspondents Walter Cronkite and Morley Safer. According to Solomon, whose work has been praised by The Los Angeles Times as brutally persuasive, the positive attention the film has received may indicate a new willingness to counter years of pro-war media spin and government deception. These deep patterns of ongoing perception management must be demystified and decoded if we're going to move beyond the horrors of perpetual war, he said. The way War Made Easy is being embraced could be an important step in that direction.
An Official Selection of 2007 s International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam and the 2007 Montreal and Vancouver International Film Festivals, WAR MADE EASY, directed by Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp, is an invaluable introduction to war propaganda and public relations that transcends partisan politics, and raises serious questions about the role of journalism and political communication in our society.
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War Made Easy:
How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us To Death
Narrated by Sean Penn
Featuring Norman Solomon
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Exclusive World-Wide Internet Premier on AboveTopSecret.com
Narrated by Sean Penn and based on the work of media critic and best-selling author Norman Solomon, who traveled with Penn to Baghdad just before the war to call attention to the dangers of a U.S. invasion, WAR MADE EASY reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose 50 years of government spin and media collusion that has dragged our country into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. With remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, the documentary exposes how presidential administrations of both parties have relied on a combination of deception and media complicity to sell one war after another to the American people.
Giving special attention to parallels between Vietnam and Iraq, WAR MADE EASY sets government spin and media collusion from the present alongside virtually identical patterns from the past, guided by Solomon s meticulous research and tough-minded analysis. Rare footage of political leaders and journalists from the past includes Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and news correspondents Walter Cronkite and Morley Safer. According to Solomon, whose work has been praised by The Los Angeles Times as brutally persuasive, the positive attention the film has received may indicate a new willingness to counter years of pro-war media spin and government deception. These deep patterns of ongoing perception management must be demystified and decoded if we're going to move beyond the horrors of perpetual war, he said. The way War Made Easy is being embraced could be an important step in that direction.
An Official Selection of 2007 s International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam and the 2007 Montreal and Vancouver International Film Festivals, WAR MADE EASY, directed by Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp, is an invaluable introduction to war propaganda and public relations that transcends partisan politics, and raises serious questions about the role of journalism and political communication in our society.
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reply posted on 20-3-2008 @ 03:33 PM by frozen_snowman
reply to post by Justin_Case
Well done obersvation Justin_Case
And to antar’s statement/question: Do we not learn from the past?
Yes – the politicians did. As seen in this video, they learned to control the media coverage to get public support for their war agenda.
The choice of words is astonishing i.e. “Operation Iraqi freedom”, “State of art killing machines”, “The whole city lit up like fireworks”…….
I noticed the ‘video game style' coverage of the weapons used.
I’m not sure if the viewer realized that real people where involved on the other side…
This is one of the best documentation I have seen on this subject .
Very well done.
So much info in this video ... just sit back and watch...
Well done obersvation Justin_Case
And to antar’s statement/question: Do we not learn from the past?
Yes – the politicians did. As seen in this video, they learned to control the media coverage to get public support for their war agenda.
The choice of words is astonishing i.e. “Operation Iraqi freedom”, “State of art killing machines”, “The whole city lit up like fireworks”…….
I noticed the ‘video game style' coverage of the weapons used.
I’m not sure if the viewer realized that real people where involved on the other side…
This is one of the best documentation I have seen on this subject .
Very well done.
So much info in this video ... just sit back and watch...
reply posted on 21-3-2008 @ 03:59 AM by frozen_snowman
Originally posted by Justin_Case
When you hear a commentator, you should be on guard for partisan bias. When you hear a government official speak, your B.S. filter should automatically kick in.
ROFL – a classic … so true 
In my earlier post I had a dyslexic fit… it should read “observation” but it was to late to edit when I noticed the mistake.
BTW the Video is also available in full length on Google Video:
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reply posted on 21-3-2008 @ 12:05 PM by merryxmas
reply to post by Justin_Case
Well said.
The thing is so many people know this but it's almost like we have to turn that into a mantra much like propagandists do. People so easily forget as you pointed out and when we know a very tried and true method of brainwashing in the extreme or propagandizing in the least, is repetition. “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. - Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister
So with that knowledge that repetition makes "truth" it becomes necessary for people who speak the actual truth to repeat it often themselves. The ones who seek to make falsehoods into truths never rest and they are always repeating their lies so it wears you down.
The people who speak the truth need to speak louder and more often and, apparently, need to repeat themselves in order to be believed.
Well said.
The thing is so many people know this but it's almost like we have to turn that into a mantra much like propagandists do. People so easily forget as you pointed out and when we know a very tried and true method of brainwashing in the extreme or propagandizing in the least, is repetition. “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. - Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister
So with that knowledge that repetition makes "truth" it becomes necessary for people who speak the actual truth to repeat it often themselves. The ones who seek to make falsehoods into truths never rest and they are always repeating their lies so it wears you down.
The people who speak the truth need to speak louder and more often and, apparently, need to repeat themselves in order to be believed.
reply posted on 22-3-2008 @ 12:59 PM by spaznational
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Sean Penn is a supporter of Hugo Chavez! Sean Penn is a traitor to his nation! BEHEAD THOSE WHO INSULT AMERICA!
Oh, wait... we don't do that here. But there ARE some people in other cultures who do that. In fact, we are at war with them.
Code Pink and the like remind me of the Nazi sympathizers of pre-WWII America, except back then they shut up when the war started. People say we should learn from history, and this is true, but now when new "Hitlers" show up in their build-up stage we once again try to appease them. And if we do strike some people cry out "Illegal War!" and "Impeach the President!" Folks, we can't have our cake and eat it too.
Sean Penn is a supporter of Hugo Chavez! Sean Penn is a traitor to his nation! BEHEAD THOSE WHO INSULT AMERICA!
Oh, wait... we don't do that here. But there ARE some people in other cultures who do that. In fact, we are at war with them.
Code Pink and the like remind me of the Nazi sympathizers of pre-WWII America, except back then they shut up when the war started. People say we should learn from history, and this is true, but now when new "Hitlers" show up in their build-up stage we once again try to appease them. And if we do strike some people cry out "Illegal War!" and "Impeach the President!" Folks, we can't have our cake and eat it too.
reply posted on 22-3-2008 @ 02:12 PM by spaznational
Originally posted by mister.old.school
Originally posted by spaznational
but now when new "Hitlers" show up in their build-up stage we once again try to appease them. And if we do strike some people cry out "Illegal War!" and "Impeach the President!" Folks, we can't have our cake and eat it too.
Perhaps you might enlighten us as to whom you would classify as a "new Hitler"?
Being previously familiar with this documentary, one could come to several conclusions that force Americans to look no farther than Washington, DC.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Khaled Mashal
Osama bin Ladin
Hugo Chavez
and increasingly Vladimir Putin
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