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Steel Cage Match: America’s Torturous History vs. ISIS | Mickey Z.
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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust
Sept. 20, 2014
“The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”
- Aldous Huxley
Despite the current "war on terror" façade, not much about American war propaganda has changed over the past century (besides, of course, how it’s transmitted).
Rhetorical edits aside, it remains true that U.S. wars and interventions are skillfully packaged and sold and the official history of those conflicts is subject to spin and distortion.
By presenting all our [sic] enemies as a never-ending parade of savages auditioning for a starring role as the "next Hitler," wartime spin plays into our worst fears -- the bogeyman -- while shoving America’s catalogue of criminality down the proverbial memory hole.
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