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Chomsky’s classic back-pocket primer on U.S. government propaganda and media bias, now available in an edition expanded to include his comments regarding media coverage of terrorism and U.S. foreign policy in a post-September 11 world.
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
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He is 100% Right - And We Have Been Fools,
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This review is from: Media Control (2nd ed): The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (Paperback)
Unfortunately Chomsky is right. The US spurns the vetoes at the UN by its European allies accompanied by derogatory remarks and much anti old Europe propaganda. The US is in fact one of the biggest users of the veto at the Security Council. It would never accept military actions by another country if it applied a veto - but then acts lawlessly when others use the same veto. That is not democracy. The US government continues to path of lawless action outside of norms of international laws and invades Iraq on a WMD pretense that now appears quite false - killing thousands of Iraqi's and perhaps thousands of Americans at a cost of hundreds of billions - the jury is still out. We still have not learned that the killing of millions by the US in Vietnam was almost as bad as the holocaust, since "we did it" to protect democracy. Forget about the Mi Lai massacre, that was peanuts compared to the total killed and the 50,000 Americans wasted. We have invaded Cuba, Grenada, Panama, Vietnam, Cambodia, Lebanon, Kosovo, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Afghanistan, and invaded Guatemala with proxies, and supported Iraq with material aid to fight Iran. We have bombed Libya, Yemen and the Sudan. We have supported police states and dictators such as Jordan and Egypt, and countries in south America including Columbia and Chile. We have made so many enemies that foreign travel is almost impossible by Americans in some countries. Now the rest of the planet, the other 94% have started to attack us back in our home cities. Maybe the Europeans are right. Maybe we are becoming the biggest threat to world peace. Government propaganda is the norm and patriotism has run at a fevered pitch. Everyone shows the flag and supports the government in its atrocities. Chomsky is (unfortunately for us) 100% right and we have supported this whole mess for 45 years. Before I thought Chomsky was a rabbid radical. I did not agree with him until I actually sat down and read his books in detail, slowly page by page. He is right - of course. His tone and language are quite neutral. His writings are not "white hot" as some reviewers suggest. He presents the facts which are simply damming. Maybe not every thing is 100% correct, and he makes small errors, but it is virtually 100% true. We have been fools to support this series of wars and invasions of small helpless countries by our leaders. If there was a legitimate need to intervene there should have been a proper international legal processes. Eisenhower, a great general and military man, has proven himself to be a prophet when he warned us of the US military-industrial complex. It has in fact taken on a life of its own and been carried from one administration to the next, even after the fall of the USSR. Jack in Toronto
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
are we sheep that we believe everything we're told?,
By "truthandjustice" (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Media Control (2nd ed): The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (Paperback)
After reading this book, you will not listen to the news again without wondering if you are being given a spin or what. Basically we are lied to all the time. We are manipulated by those that control the media and Chomsky points out time and again many examples of how it has been done. I don't know about you, but I am tired of listening to the news and wondering how much of it is just propaganda and how much we can believe.Chomsky is brilliant! Everyone should read this book and then they will at least get a better idea of how many of the events that have happened are not always quite what the media led us to believe. Look a little deeper and use your own minds to come to your own conclusions. Enjoy!
1 of 27 people found the following review helpful
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Trite, Tiresome Treacle,
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This review is from: Media Control (2nd ed): The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (Paperback)
This review could easily apply to any of Chumpsky's books on the globo-political hegemonic terror manifested by the existence of the United States, but this one offers less pain than typical due to its comparative brevity and dearth of tautological scribbling, so here we are. The irony of Chump's admirable intellect focused so intently on the evils of America is that he personifies the anti-intellectual underpinnings of so many modern day slaughter-states. Witness Pol Pot, who had everyone in Cambodia with eyeglasses offed because of the threat they posed, or the muderous revolutions in China, Russia and Nazi Germany which lined people up against a wall, smarties first. Freedom is always a threat to those so much smarter than we wee people, because who will listen to brilliant men like Chumpsky when there is Fox news on 24 hours a day? The very fact that two democracies have not been to war against each other is underscored by the dynamic that popularly elected governments can never wage war without the informed will of the people. So Chumpsky undermines this safety-valve on rampant militarism by saying that people are stupid and uniformed, and thereby willing to wage the war in the interest of their superiors, e.g. elected officials. Such bunk. The U.S. is far from perfect, it is not hard to document the stomach turning atrocities of any nation, but to maintain that on the big scoreboard of warmongering the U.S. is not overwhelmingly on the side of preserving peace, freedom and inidividual dignity is the height of stupidity. Roughly 50 years ago Europe embroiled the world in the 2nd monsterously pointless war in 30 years, precisely because there was no dominant nation with large enough interests to maintain the peace. That conflict is traceable today to the festering in the Middle East, yet somehow America is to blame. To say that the U.S. should not assert its might in the world is to say the policy should not assert a presence on the streets. To lay blame for this on the media is to hold the belief that everyone is a total moron and subsequently unworthy of the freedom to make decisions and form beliefs by all available information. Some of the reviews here echo this scary sentiment, mindlessly kissing King Chump's ring as they too conclude it is the U.S. that is to blame for the world's problems afterall.
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