War Made Easy: Norman Solomon on How Mainstream Media Helped Pave Way for U.S. Invasion of Iraq 

Well there is that other option, let Russia and China expand militarily and grow their empires the old fashioned way. You think a bus load of protesters would stop the Russians?

Mind Begs the Question: If deploying Weapons,Mercenaries In USA backyard(Cuba) - Not Allowed In Russia,China backyard(Ukraine,Taiwan) - Allowed Democracy,Imperialism?

Habits die hard especially when the addiction to war and destruction is so severe. Only an end to the empire will resolve this.

there definitely has been changes. those 'americans' in power have new targets, but the rest of the world definitely becoming a lot more aware of their hypocrisy and are starting to realize who the real bad guys are.

I think it is actually worse, although I thought that was impossible. I stopped watching TV, all MSM because of this and can't say that I have missed it.

Centuries later and nothing has changed. The same people who genocided tens of millions of natives in America, hijacked tens of millions of Africans and forced them into slavery, dropped nukes on cities and vaporized hundreds of thousands of civilians, bombed Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia ... invaded Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria and destroyed Libya... are now involved in a proxy war with Russia. Who would've thought?!

No, everything has changed! Russia and China are literally dismantling the US empire as we speak and no amount of US propaganda is gonna change that back to the way it was. They aren't Iraq, their the bigger bully on the block.

Rinse and repeat. If it ain’t broke, why fix it? History repeats itself. Need I go on?

@@larrybills5840 HISTORY RHYMES!!!

Sure does!!

Its not exactly the same. The war in ukraine is bad but because of America's own hypocritical history, it is the very reason many outside the self-righteous west are apathetic or even supportive of the Russian war.

But now China, Russia, India and others are looking for another world without sanctions, coups, lies, hypocracy and wars.... Can they do so....?

um you're either with the ukrainians or the russians. who are you with?

​@@joshuap9580 I am with no support for NATO manipulation and US Agenda. It's that simple.

America fuelled by Big Media caused the disaster in Ukraine.

​@@joshuap9580 So no one here is with innocent civilians,men, women, children, old who are bearing the brunt of this conflict i.e. war v/s proxy war since a decade,,,, or say 7-8 decades ?! A cycle of CORRUPTION through which hard working middle class i.e. 90% of the population paid tax money circulates and goes into the pockets of big fat half percent.

​@@joshuap9580 Well, if you put it that way... Slava Rossiya!

She does?

Yes , the hippocracy

@@andy47456 Have a look at their reporting about Syria! Libya and Ukraine. She is a lying war pig, sellout but sneaky as well because people like yourself have been hoodwinked thinking they are still fair-minded. They didn't even support Assange!!!

Uh huh. You don't even believe what you're selling!

Yes, yes! Agreed!

The mainstream media uncritically amplified the Bush regime's WMD lie? Democracy Now is too kind. The mainstream media were accomplices in the fraud on the people. The UN weapons inspector (that's your Scott Ritter way back then) said there were no WMD in Iraq. So why should the mainstream media believe the Bush regime, when it had produced zero evidence? Sure, Colin Powell had waved a test tube of white powder and claimed it was some biological WMD. If it were so, he wouldn't have held it in his hands and waved it about in a hall full of people. What if he dropped it and the glass broke? People in the Global South didn't believe the WMD bullshit, so why should the high civilization of the perfumed garden in the west believe the naked lie? No, the mainstream media were not merely uncritical. They were accomplice fraudsters.

forget mainstream media, that's why people use tiktok to share views. and that's the true reason government wants to ban it. it's a platform to help people get rid of the media control and pro-military brainwash.

Mind Begs the Question: Hitler used Media To falsely Demonize Jews To spread Nazi Propaganda More Reliable - Corporate Media,Independent Media?

"I know your race. It is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong; but no matter, the crowd follows it. The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves. Think of it! One kind-hearted creature spies upon another, and sees to it that he loyally helps in iniquities which revolt both of them." -Mysterious Stranger

"Still, it is true, lamb," said Satan. "Look at you in war-what mutton you are, and how ridiculous!" "In war? How?" "There has never been a just one, never an honorable one-on the part of the instigator of the war. I can see a million years ahead, and this rule will never change in so many as half a dozen instances. The loud little handful-as usual-will shout for the war. The pulpit will-warily and cautiously-object-at first; the great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, "It is unjust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it." Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with speech and pen, and at first will have a hearing and be applauded; but it will not last long; those others will outshout them, and presently the anti-war audiences will thin out and lose popularity. Before long you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform, and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men who in their secret hearts are still at one with those stoned speakers-as earlier-but do not dare to say so. And now the whole nation-pulpit and all-will take up the war-cry, and shout itself hoarse, and mob any honest man who ventures to open his mouth; and presently such mouths will cease to open. Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." - Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger

@@aa2339 Thank you for the very interesting read. Will store it. Sadly seems so on current situation. But hopefully, we hope to prove Mark Twain wrong on this.

Twain was also a member of The Anti US) Imperialist Leaque - something most people have never heard of.

And after the destruction the reconstruction is already financed by the same corporate class enslaving financially the nations destroyed.

An attack on Islam as is the loss of 200k Ukrainian soldiers is an attack on Christianity.

and everytime soldiers came back from iraq, they were greeted "thank you for your service"

They never talk about that

​@@gudboyngdisyerto because the u.s. People are Sheep!! 😂😂

I am sure I read just recently a University study, Yale?, so it must be true, that the Iraqi dead are around 300,000. EDIT: It's a Brown U. Study, they say around 300,000 dead but likely into the hundreds of thousands dead directly or indirectly as a result of the War.

Don't forget Grenada, an island with 70 soldiers who didn't have rifles, attacked by England and the U.S.

Instead, Tony Blair is the richest ex-prime minister in British history and was recently given a knighthood, while Bush is sitting in his mansion doing his shitty little paintings The hypocrisy is extraordinary.

where is the ICC?

@@johnwattdotca Or the Chagos Islands, where the native population was forcibly removed by the British to make way for a US military base. Our governments are scum.

​​@@driftershu International CRIMINALS Cort...... IMPARTIAL,,,,,,, EQUALITY,,,,,, FAIRNESS ,,,,,,,,,,,, Isonomial ARE THE PILLARS & STRICTLY, RELIGIOUSLY FOLLOWED.

watch " gen wesley clark iraq" the one by National Geographic

it's a shame no warrants are issued in that case.

It’s on the Real News Network RU-vid channel if you want to give your friends a YT link.

@ct I find that posting links gets me deleted.

@@stolidvessel2550 I don't mean link in public, sorry for not speaking clearly

There are far more anti-war Republicans than Democrats. Don't argue with me - count them yourself.

TF are you on, bigot?!

You’re correct! The irony of citizens of the most destructive and imperialist force on the planet calling the kettle black. And Amy goodman parroting the state department talking points against Russia. When I stopped listening, she still was anyway. And she starred the White helmets propaganda against Syria, I remember she had no problem running with the propaganda against Libya.

Same playbook pulled out every time and it works every time.

Well if that statement was true why Would he have Sean Penn as a producer for this project? Look how he’s promoting and supporting the Ukrainian crisis.

Color me unimpressed. Lefty liberals are champions at being ineffectual.

amy goodman sure is nOT

@@federalreservebrown2507 Democracy now has lost its way quite some time ago.

@@veronicaancrum4871 correct 21 September's ago at 5:20 p.m.

Verily! Inside job. False flag. Skull & Bones.

Have you heard of "American Architects and Engineers for Truth", a California based organization, who have proved it wasn't the airplanes that brought down three high-rises the same way the same day? They will send you a small newspaper with their evidence, and they probably have more to see now. The third high-rise was purchased months before 9/11 by a friend of President W. Bush, for $400 million. He was able to buy the first "terrorism insurance" in the United States, getting 7 billion after it fell. Bush sent the steel wreckage to China as scrap when it was investigative evidence.

No way before since inception you people just predisposed to war killing

When it comes to what did and did not happen on Sept 11, the likes of Goodman, DN!, Chomsky, Nation Mag, Hedges will stick to The Company - D🌐D -W$J for not only Sept 11 wholly inadequate conspiracy theory, as they usually echo that stale tripe on JFK & © V 19, too... Facts are immaterial. PPP Party Loyalty is ∆££ or Nothing. Have nothing. Do nothing. Be nothing. Feel~Free™! Or else! 🌐√🏴‍☠️

Meanwhile, Julian Assange is in Belmarsh prison, for disclosing the TRUTH, while the criminals are walking free. Free Julian Assange!!!!

Enriching the white gentry at the cost of the poor and colored; Pretty much the totality of American history.

You omitted the biggest one: Victoria nuland

@@jvs333 ..to include advisor Victoria Nuland. Big time war advocate. 😊😉

War profits America.

and dah afro-american flag; where, you idiot."

Belize central america I'm from and i agree totally !! Prayers for the entire world and all other war zones of the world

@@carlislepanting5219 *agree, ameen!*

The world needs China who is neutral to play peacemaker like Saudi Arabia & Iran to have any hope for the preservation of humanity

All the sudden..... The Islamist terrorist disappeared after the US decided to take on russia and china.. Where do they go??

Amy Powell Check out " War is a Racket " by U S Marine Major General Smedley Butler

@@thuddreau5444 I know it well!

@@amypowell6495 Thanks Amy for your comments and your humanity and awareness

Ukraine.

Quote "war is when young people who don't know each other, who don't hate each other, kill each other, by the decisions of old people who know each other, who hate each other, but do not kill each other and at the end shake hands .......The Tragedy of war

Us is not member of icc..only members in icc they can prosecute..china and russia also is not member and north korea.

NYT motto

It is painful and I don't want to see it

@@BobJohnson648 But if you look maybe you could join the voices of others that see & affect positive change. Plus it’s reality & truth. Bless your sensitivity, though … it IS hard to look at. Vietnam was right in our faces every night. We saw the devastation of everything & everybody. It should never be easy to look past the damage of war.

@@peggydale4638 problem is that many people were not born yet...Dan Crenshaw for example

@@BobJohnson648 Maybe a news source SHOULD air the results of war for all to see. However, most fighting is done remotely, so nobody really gets the sense of the damage done. Except those folks whose village or town is flattened & family members killed, of course. This was the first time I'd heard anybody mention what WE have done to others. It's a perspective we should try to understand before we go about killing & destroying, in my opinion. Peace✌🏽

@@peggydale4638 embedded journalists are reluctant to stray...

Because most Americans are manipulated and brainwasy

1) do not care because it does not affect them 2) lots and lots profit from wars 3) many believe government propaganda

Because Americans don’t know what is happening. We are an ignorant populations that just want our welfare check and drugs.

So many anti war american are not in the elite club...they are screwed...whoever they vote for..it will be the same.. The politician don't run america foreign policy..or anything...the elite club of money man...run them !

Need to reform the voting system so the two parties stop their bullshit.

They lied about fatalities in Vietnam, tried to cover up the same killing now bringing such out rage cause it's Russia. They did the same in WWII.

Absolutely not. Usa must be held accountable for its multiple crimes all over the world.

Yep, your own friends are hypnotized by the bs.

Indeed!! BUT China invaded TIBET & many of it's neighbors including India!! China still hasn't settled the border issues & occupies Indian lands known as Aksai Chin in Kashmir since the 1960's!!

Indeed …these nations have been treating their own citizens so nicely the last 200 years 😅😂😂😂😂

Find like-minded folks and do something about it, together.

"Politics is the entertainment division of the military-industrial complex". Frank Zappa, early 1970s.

@@johnwattdotca Indeed. It is a circus for the masses. Remember, most Americans today have no culture of education; they only have entertainment, violent unabated Hollywood entertainment.

The Neoconservatives are psychopaths.

neocons are everyone's worst enemy

It must be your depression that shadows your opinion, because you're wrong about Democracy Now.

Well said

May finally finding its way back to being progressive and gutsy

It's sad, but so, so true. I stopped donating. But they get money else where.

@@uschischueller4643 doubtful, but I hope.

I would suggest reading "The Medium is The Message', by Professor Marshall McCluhan. He invented the term "global village" and describes the effects of media and computers on society.

Don't forget any American president beginning with WW2, except for Past President Jimmy Carter. He didn't start a new attack on a foreign country for their wealth and oil.

neither Obama nor Biden lied us into wars

Then & now. :-/

Same right now before WWIII

Nicely said 👍

how? we've picked the right side for once.

​@@joshuap9580 you didn't pick a side, the US prompted this war, but as with what they say here people are easily manipulated, we're going to have another video like this about the porpaganda today 20 years from now, and if the US is still standing someone will tell someone else again "they did the same 20 years ago".

Exactly they all comment about it after the fact

They use the same playbook every time and it works every time. Unleash the tribal instincts and the population is on board with every war.

100%

what will be said in 10 years? that the west cowered again in the face of russia as it rebuilt its empire and subjected millions more to authoritarian rule? or that we stood up for what we say we believe in?

WTF? You are comparing the two?

I don't believe this W. Bush artwork. He was always put down as being stupid, the dumbest president, and a sadistic oil baron, with the C.I.A. head as his father. As a Texan, I see him coming out as an artist as a way to seem humane, as if he has feelings for not only humans, but nature, when he doesn't. My biggest take on this is seeing him compare himself to Winston Churchill, who painted for a hobby. Churchill was one of the worst British war-mongers, a British version of General Patton.

completely different situation, that is obvious. should be every russian should watch this, they are the ones tracing our own footsteps.

against an autocrat dictator like putin you mean

how about putin de escalating the war and just backing off and leave Ukraine

There was apparently the outlines of a peace plan in place within a month of the war that Boris Johnson and the US asked the Ukrainians to back off of. The outlines of that agreement was along the lines of Minsk 2 plus neutrality for Ukraine as far as NATO goes. Why was it rejected in my opinion, because the war offered a chance for the US's real strategic goals... To degrade Russia at least militarily and best of all, using Ukrainian lives. Russia isn't going to back off because they are taking a step they warned about and were ignored for twenty years. The US manufactured consent for Iraq in barely a year

​@@pablolozano8595 How about educating yourself on the atrocities that happed to Russians within Eastern Ukraine and why the Minsk agreements were signed. It is not Putin that is refusing peace negotiations it is the West and the UK. Putin met with China and they put together a 12 point peace plan which the West refused.

Yet NO connection to the illegality and immorality parallels to "war" in the Persian Gulf & Mid East Nor. Africa and Ukraine. The mendacity and omissions are off the charts on this channel, Demagoguery Now!

If you're hearing it, it's up to you to decide. You can't decide if you don't have any choices.

@@johnwattdotca and Amy has never presented choices on Syria?

Yes! Putin has lied his people into a proxy war against Ukraine

Yes

Absolutely

That is exactly what’s happening in Ukraine. Same play book.

Most people are getting fooled All of the time

@@raynierllewis2827 Yes, I can't tell if my propaganda is misinformation or my disinformation is hyperbole most of the time.

Which American people? Many American people willingly put on face diapers for three years and volunteered to get vaccinated with highly questionable vaccines.

US presidents don't run America, there are just playing the role. Jesuits of Rome run the US puppet government for Pope

I do wonder whether the ppl of the USA can vote with common sense. I think many ppl lost their critical thinking skills. It appears ppl are so divided that some will never vote Republican as a Democrat and it doesn't matter what candidate is chosen for that party. Even after the two years of Biden and seeing the blunders, mental issues, rise of inflation, vast homelessness, all time high addictive drug usage, record number of illegal immigration from Mexican border and these people will still vote for him for another 4 years in 2024. This administration prefers to pander to the woke initiative and Black Lives Matter. Like, wow. Even Kamala Harris is a laughing stock to people abroad yet I think many Americans can't see it. What has she or the first lady done for this country? The USA is a declining power. It's imploding culturally within and indicators suggest, economically.

we already did back in 2020 and we won!!!

@@pablolozano8595 You mean to say, you can give me a list of politicians from the US, who can actually bring peace to Europe without soiling themselves?

Exactly