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Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq

Category: eBooks, Magazines, Audio Books
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Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq "This is a stunning book which blows away all the myths about why America goes to war. American fights, the author demonstrates, to remake the world in its own image, for power and for markets. Its propaganda, 'as American as apple pie,' has historically sought to disguise this."--Phillip Knightley, author of The First Casualty "Marshalling compelling evidence, Susan Brewer documents the rhetorical strategies by which the U.S. government, often with the complicity of the media and key opinion-molding groups, has mobilized popular support for every major U.S. conflict from the Spanish-American war to the invasion of Iraq. Well written and deeply researched, this timely work should be read by all those concerned with issues of war and peace and with how propaganda can coarsen and debase civic discourse on vital public issues."--Paul Boyer, editor of The Oxford Companion to United States History "Susan Brewer's lively account of wartime propaganda from 1898 to the war in Iraq, Why America Fights, could well be sub-titled, Why America Is Still Fighting. May its account of the mobilization of patriotism for dubious purposes serve as a prophylactic for the future."--Marilyn Young, New York University "Susan Brewer writes that U.S. war propaganda since the dawn of the twentieth century has been both necessary and misleading. Judiciously argued and well researched, this engaging narrative examines the claims that policymakers advanced in their speeches, newspapers, radio programs, and films to sell America's wars. Brewer's provocative book deserves a wide readership from Americans who so often wonder how their lofty goals in war can end in disillusionment."--Emily S. Rosenberg, author of A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory Product Description On the evening of September 11, 2002, with the Statue of Liberty shimmering in the background, television cameras captured President George W. Bush as he advocated war against Iraq. This carefully stage-managed performance, writes Susan A. Brewer, was the culmination of a long tradition of sophisticated wartime propaganda in America. In Why America Fights, Brewer offers a fascinating history of how successive presidents have conducted what Donald Rumsfeld calls "perception management," from McKinley's war in the Philippines to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Brewer's intriguing account ranges from analyses of wartime messages to descriptions of the actual operations, from the dissemination of patriotic ads and posters to the management of newspaper, radio, and TV media. When Woodrow Wilson took the nation into World War I, he created the Committee on Public Information, led by George Creel, who called his job "the world's greatest adventure in advertising." In World War II, Roosevelt's Office of War Information avowed a "strategy of truth," though government propaganda still depicted Japanese soldiers as buck-toothed savages. In the Korean War, the Truman administration delineated differences between "good" and "evil" Asians, while portraying the conflict as a global battle between the Free World and Communism. After examining the ultimately failed struggle to cast the Vietnam War in a favorable light, Brewer shows how the Bush White House drew explicit lessons from that history as it engaged in an unprecedented effort to sell a preemptive war in Iraq. Yet the thrust of its message was not much different from McKinley's pronouncements about America's civilizing mission. Impressively researched and argued, filled with surprising details, Why America Fights shows how presidents consistently have drummed up support for foreign wars by appealing to what Americans want to believe about themselves. Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (June 2009) Language: English
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Noam Chomsky - Tufts University - 27.03.2009 - AVI - Godcanjudgeme

Category: Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky - Tufts University - 27.03.2009 - Godcanjudgeme ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ Professor Chomsky's Speach from the "New Strategies for the Obama Era Conference" held at Tufts University, Medford/Somerville Campus, Massachusetts - 27.03.2009 ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ Featured speakers included (and video source) : Noam Chomsky, renowned author and linguist : (http://blip.tv/file/1933851) Bill Fletcher Jr., radical trade unionist : (http://blip.tv/file/1933328 http://blip.tv/file/1933532) Zia Mian, of the Woodrow Wilson School of Policy, Princeton University : (http://blip.tv/file/1936786) Joseph Gerson, author and veteran peace activist. Ken Ward, environmental activist. Raed Jarrar, half Iraqi and half Palestinian architect and political analyst. Anna Galland, of MoveOn.org. Emily Kawano, of the Center for Popular Economics : (http://blip.tv/file/1940403) Phyllis Bennis, of the Institute for Policy Studies. Arjun Makhijani, of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. Tom Hayden, renowned peace activist and prolific writer. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ Source : http://blip.tv/file/1933851 Converted To : AVI, XVid, MP3 Size : 249 MB Resolution : 640X352 Frame Rate : 29.97 fps Audio Bitrate : 128 kb/s - stereo Sample Rate : 44100 Hz Duration : 00:46:19 ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- Please Seed x1/ x2 ..Keep Torrents Alive.. ..Godcanjudgeme..
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Third Term: How John McCain Promises to Continue George Bush's Failed Policies

Category: Documentary
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Center for American Progress Action Fund and Media Matters Action Network present a Progressive Accountability production Featuring music by Art Hodge (Dust Brothers, "Fight Club" soundtrack) and Aime Caron Narration by Paul Begala Using tracking video, media footage, and interviews with experts from Center for American Progress Action Fund, National Security Network, Emily's List, and AFL-CIO, the case is laid out that, yes, John McCain is offering little but a third term of Bush's radical policy agenda. Learn more about how John McCain's policies are like George Bush's by visiting www.ProgressiveAccountability.org To preview the video: The trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yAhX-n3b1g Keating 5 clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxBCAaulG-k The Social Security privatization segment: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/20/mccain-claimed-privatizat_n_127984.html
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BBC Newsnight~Terror, Consent and Ticking Timebombs 2008 05 30 avi clip

Category: News & Current Affairs
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BBC Newsnight~Terror, Consent and Ticking Timebombs 2008 05 30 avi clip 73.8 mgs 12.29 mns with Emily Maitlis The last Briton in Guantanamo Bay has just been charged with terrorism under its Military Tribunal. Binyam Mohammed - who says he was tortured in Morocco under extraordinary rendition - could now face the death penalty. We don't know, to be frank, if he's a terrorist. But we do know that when the very practices used by the West face eyebrow raising scrutiny, and questions of legality, the so-called War on Terror itself is in danger of being undermined. Tonight we talk to the author of Terror and Consent - a philosophical roadmap for fighting the often intangible issue of terrorism. We ask Philip Bobbitt what methods should and could be used to protect ourselves whilst retaining the values that allow civil societies to hold their heads high. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/latest_programme/ shunster
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Guantanamo Torture Techniques + '24' BBC Newsnight 2008 04 25 avi clip

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Guantanamo Torture Techniques + '24' BBC Newsnight 2008 04 25 avi clip 12 min 83 xvid with Emily Maitlis Includes how 'Jack Bauer' and '24' may have influenced key decisions on how American torture techniques were conceived. Tonight we bring you the first ever television interview with Lieutenant Colonel Diane Beaver. She was the lawyer who approved interrogation techniques for use on Guantanamo Bay prisoners that were new to the military and - many would say - both morally reprehensible and illegal under international law. Diane Beaver was acting with the higher authority of the Bush administration. She was a junior advocate and was under orders. So just how far up the ladder of the Bush administration did the buck stop? We take a look at the decisions which allowed sexual humiliation, sleep deprivation and waterboarding and hear how administration officials are now wide open to an international war crimes investigation........ thebox.bz shunster pls seed
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The Israeli Wall in Palestinian Lands

Category: Documentary
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DVD to avi file. info from: http://www.palestineonlinestore.com/films/wall.htm The Israeli Wall in Palestinian Lands This film was made during a time in Palestine when the "Wall" that separates Palestinians from each other and from Israelis was one quarter completed. The film offers the viewer a perspective from seven diverse and ordinary Palestinians whose lives are directly affected by the wall. You will meet a businessman from Abu Dis, a neighborhood of East Jerusalem, a young mother from Dheishe Refugee Camp near Bethlehem, a music student from Ramallah, a community center director from Jerusalem's Old City, a farmer from the northern Qalqilya district, the director of the Stop the Wall campaign and finally, a member of the African-Palestinian community. Viewers will witness the effects of the Apartheid Wall on the Palestinian people, and come out with the inescapable conclusion that this wall is another tool in Israel's ethnic cleansing efforts against the Palestinian population. Film Specs Classification: Documentary Directed by: Andrew Courtney and Emily Perry Release date: Summer 2004 Length: 43 minutes Language: English and Arabic with English subtitles
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The Howard Zinn Collection

Category: Documentary
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Another great collection from Middlefinger Spoken Word MP3 Trade http://lemming.mahost.org/middlefinger/ Track listing: Howard Zinn - A People's History Of The United States (full album) Howard Zinn - Artists In A Time Of War (full album) Howard Zinn - Emma Goldman, A Dangerous Woman (full album) Howard Zinn - Stories Hollywood Never Tells (full album) Howard Zinn - The Case Of Sacco & Vanzetti (full album) Arundhati Roy And Howard Zinn Discuss The War On Terrorism.mp3 Connection - Anti-war Voices.mp3 Connection - Pedagogy And Patriotism.mp3 Daniel Ellsberg & Howard Zinn At The Veterans For Peace National Convention.mp3 Full Logic Reverse - Howard Zinn.mp3 GenderTalk #312.mp3 Howard Zinn - A New Foreign Policy.mp3 Howard Zinn - Against The War.mp3 Howard Zinn - Air-Brushing History.mp3 Howard Zinn - History And Democracy (part 1).mp3 Howard Zinn - History And Democracy (part 2).mp3 Howard Zinn - Radical History.mp3 Howard Zinn - The Artist's Role For Social Change.mp3 Howard Zinn - The Myth Of The Cold War (part 1).mp3 Howard Zinn - The Myth Of The Cold War (part 2).mp3 Howard Zinn - The Myth Of The Cold War (part 3).mp3 Howard Zinn - You Can't Be Neutral On A Moving Train.mp3 Howard Zinn At Boston Nader Super Rally.mp3 Howard Zinn At Politics And Prose.mp3 Howard Zinn At The University Of Vermont.mp3 Howard Zinn In DC.mp3 Howard Zinn Interviewed By Desmond Leary.mp3 Howard Zinn Interviewed By Emily Udell.mp3 Howard Zinn On The 60s (part 1).mp3 Howard Zinn On The 60s (part 2).mp3 Howard Zinn On The Diane Rehm Show.mp3 Howard Zinn On The Tavis Smiley Show.mp3 Howard Zinn On War.mp3 Iraq Under Siege - Howard Zinn.mp3 Laura Flanders Show - 2004, 09.04.mp3 Majority Report - 2004, 04.16.mp3 Majority Report - 2004, 11.12.mp3 OnPoint - Howard Zinn And The War On Terror.mp3 Peter Werbe Show - 2004, 10.24.mp3 Redeye - Howard Zinn.mp3 Weekly Freak Show - An Evening With Howard Zinn.mp3
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