[Marxism] War Made Easy

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Now playing at the Quad Theater in New York, “War Made Easy” is the 
definitive study of how the mainstream media in the United States 
permitted itself to be used as a propaganda outlet of the Bush 
administration in the run-up to the war with Iraq. It places “embedded” 
journalism in the larger context of pro-war media going back to the 
early stages of the Cold War, and is particularly adept in making 
comparisons with the war in Vietnam. Just as the Gulf of Tonkin 
incident—an attack on American destroyers by Vietnamese patrol boats 
that never really happened—was used as a pretext for getting into 
Vietnam, so were false reports on weapons of mass destruction and Saddam 
Hussein ties to al Qaeda used for this most recent imperialist debacle.

full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/war-made-easy/

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