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"A sobering and essential book that Americans should read, share,
and discuss."
--JOHN STAUBER, coauthor of "Weapons of Mass Deception"
You've heard it all before, and you will no doubt hear it again.
"Our leaders will do everything they can to avoid war." "They
attacked us." "Our enemy is a modern-day Hitler." "This is all
about human rights." And, at some point after these and other
pronouncements had echoed through the media for weeks or months,
American troops marched into Vietnam, Panama, or Iraq.
In "War Made Easy," Norman Solomon cuts through the dense web of
spin to probe and scrutinize the key "perception management"
techniques that have played huge roles in the promotion of American
wars in recent decades. In addition to documenting a long series of
deliberate misdeeds at the highest levels of power, it lays out
important guidelines to help us distinguish elements in a
propaganda campaign from actual news reporting. By following these
simple suggestions, every citizen can become a savvy media critic
and, perhaps, help the nation avoid the next costly and unnecessary
war.
"An engaging book that helps explain how the myth-making machine
works."
--"The Texas Observer"
"If you want to help prevent another war (Iran? Syria?), read
War Made Easy now. This is a stop-the-presses book filled with
mind-blowing facts about Washington's warmongers who keep the
Pentagon budget rising."
--JIM HIGHTOWER, author of "Let's Stop Beating Around the
Bush"
"A definitive historical text . . . an indispensable record of
the real relationships among government authorities and media
outlets."
--"The Humanist"
"Our media has a history of enabling Washington'sforeign
misadventures. Perhaps if enough people read--and act on--this
book, it won't be so easy next time."
--MARK HERTSGAARD, author of "On Bended Knee: The Press and the
Reagan Presidency"
An analysis of the Irish policy of the Conservative Unionists.
Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
In the 1950s, a French journalist joked that the Chinese were "blue
ants under the red flag," dressing identically and even moving in
concert like robots. When the Cultural Revolution officially began,
this uniformity seemed to extend to the mind. From the outside,
China had become a monotonous world, a place of endless repetition
and imitation, but a closer look reveals a range of cultural
experiences, which also provided individuals with an obscure sense
of freedom. In The Art of Cloning, Pang Laikwan examines this
period in Chinese history when ordinary citizens read widely,
traveled extensively through the country, and engaged in a range of
cultural and artistic activities. The freedom they experienced,
argues Pang, differs from the freedom, under Western capitalism, to
express individuality through a range of consumer products. But it
was far from boring and was possessed of its own kind of diversity.
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