Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements Of Propaganda , 2nd Edition (Paperback)

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

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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!

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