Joe Hill

The MSM lapdog media continues its Islamophobic Goebbels-like propaganda images in the buildup for war against Iran. During "discussions" on the subject, film clips are shown of goose-stepping N. Korean regiments (?), a loud anti-American demonstration somewhere in the ME where a flag is burned, and war footage from the Iran-Iraq War. Nowhere do we see Iranians as peaceful everyday families minding their own business.



I wouldn't call it fascism exactly, but a political system nominally controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can hardly be described as democracy either: Edward Zehr

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices." - Voltaire, 1767

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Lerxst

This is absolutely ridiculous. You live in a world of delusional paranoia Joe. "Lapdog MSM?" Who the **** do you think led the charge to put Bush & Co. under a microscope? Isn't it the purpose of vilifying them Ay'rabs...to get the U.S. to blindly follow along with the neo-con/corporate plan to subjugate the Middle East and plunder their resources? Who do you think consistently airs programming that is critical of U.S. policy in the middle east? There have been several Hollywood movies that paint a very equitable image of Muslims, that by default highlight U.S. failings in how deal with them. I have seen to programs just recently spotlighting modernist Iranians who seek a friendly relationship with west, that want their Islamic state to stay Islamic but to advance with the times. What about T.V. shows casting Italians as Mafia thugs or young blacks as inner city gang members? Is this a hit piece propagating Jew control over the media or just an abortion of political correctness?

Why NOT show the anti-American protests Joe? They ARE happening. To not show them might actually lead people to believe that the middle eastern countries are peacefully coping with U.S. foreign policy and not acting out against it. Why not show that there is in fact an anti-American sentiment emanating from parts of the middle east. It's the truth. So do we only report the truth now that supports your paranoia induced vision of what "Amerika" has become Joe?

Get a grip and get some counseling.

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The silenced majority

Arabs do a pretty good job of stereotyping themselves.

At least that's the opinion I get anytime I turn on CNN, MSNBC, FOX, PBS, BBC, CBC etc. and see **** getting blown up all over the middle east seemingly without end.

That is, unless those images I'm seeing are a creation of Hollywood & not really real.

Gladiator

Try:

Afghan Massacre, the Convoy of Death
(Special Order)


Dateline Afghanistan, Reporting the Forgotten War (2007)

Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq War (2004)

Uncovered: The War on Iraq (2004)

In the Valley of Elah

The Friends website.

There are also movies for downloading

Search Afghanistan, Iraq, War Movies,

For the Russian-Afghan war:
Massoud the Afghan



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Gladiator

Afghan Massacre, Convoy of Death Movie Review:

"In November 2001, near the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, a major battle was raging between the Northern Alliance forces of Rashid Dostum and the suddenly vulnerable Taliban. Following the battle, thousands of the latter surrendered, "under assurances that they would not be harmed." However, due to a complex series of events, this was not to be. Now, up to 3,000 murdered Taliban prisoners lie in an unmarked mass grave in a lonely stretch of Afghan desert,"

Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death - by Christopher Deliso



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Joe Hill

Of course some of the MSM is starting to reveal what even Bush's syndicate has admitted. . .the "reasons" given for this occupation were bogus from the start. Where were the critical questions then? Where was the "microscope" when it really counted? Now that the Occupation and wars are part of the established reality that we are getting used to, it's safe and easy to criticise. I would say that any nation's reaction to violent invasion and occupation would go beyond "acting out." The US military has no right to dominate the region and put bases up on foreign soil against the will of the people. Yet when is this ever questioned?

So how would you react if Arab armies invaded the US and killed thousands of your fellow citizens, including friends and family? Would you go out and cheer as they rode tanks down your street and pointed guns at you? Destroyed your livelihood and ended all utilities such as water, sewer, and electricity? Dropped hi-tech missiles among the kids playing in your neighborhood and said "oops!" Encouraged lawlessness by arming gangs?



One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If
we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject
any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer
interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has
captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge
-- even to ourselves -- that we've been so credulous:
Carl Sagan

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great wealth in a few hands, but we can't have both.":
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Joe Hill

You just proved my point. Try Al Jazeera, unless you have been so propagandized that you consider even them to be "terrists."

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"We can have democracy in this country or we can have
great wealth in a few hands, but we can't have both.":
Louis D. Brandeis

Joe Hill

Think this is the first time the American public has been inundated with racist propaganda?



How you can win the population for war: At first, the
statesman will invent cheap lying, that impute the
guilt of the attacked nation, and each person will be
happy over this deceit, that calm the conscience. It
will study it detailed and refuse to test arguments of
the other opinion. So he will convince step for step
even therefrom that the war is just and thank God,
that he, after this process of grotesque even deceit,
can sleep better: Mark Twain

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"We can have democracy in this country or we can have
great wealth in a few hands, but we can't have both.":
Louis D. Brandeis

Trajan Octavian Titus

They don't need us to vilify them they do that on their own:

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The silenced majority

Is 1.) all of the violence in the middle east I see on the Mainstream evening news a product of Hollywood & not really real or 2.) is there an equal amount of violence being perpetrated in other parts of the planet that are purposefully being suppressed by the media for the sole intent of isolating Arabs and vilifying them?

Which ridiculous conspiracy is it?