War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations.
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Showing posts with label War. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Eisenhower Farewell Address - 'Military Industrial Complex'
The full television broadcast of Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address
delivered January 17, 1961
Full text here.
delivered January 17, 1961
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes."
Full text here.
Monday, August 30, 2010
War Is A Racket, by Major General Smedley Butler, 1935
War Is A Racket, by Major General Smedley Butler, 1935
via Howard Zinn's 'Voices of a People's History'
And what is this bill?
This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations.
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. Now that I see the international war clouds gathering, as they are today, I must face it and speak out.'
via Howard Zinn's 'Voices of a People's History'
'Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few -- the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill.
And what is this bill?
This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations.
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. Now that I see the international war clouds gathering, as they are today, I must face it and speak out.'
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway - eBook
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway - eBook
The full text of Ernest Hemingway's classic book about World War I
The full text of Ernest Hemingway's classic book about World War I
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