I just watch "War Made Easy"

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www.WARMADEEASYTHEMOVIE.org
Narrated by Sean Penn, Featuring Norman Solomon. I went to the Veterans For Peace meeting last Monday because Norman was going to be there. I learned Lynn Woolsey may announce she isn't running for re-election. If she does Norman is considering running. He has a site, NormanSolomonExploratory or something.

If you haven't seen the movie, it's stuff most of us know, but but together very well for the argument.

Back to Wisconsin and Libya developments...

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1. "and how both sides keep spinning us to death..." knr n/t

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2. If Sean Penn is behind it

then I'm all in. We'll go see it for sure.

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3. More ...

it is on instant play on Netflix, from their site...

"War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death

Based on Norman Solomon's revealing book and narrated by actor Sean Penn, this documentary exposes the government's and the media's purported history of deceiving the American people and leading the nation into war after war. Using archival footage of past presidents and media correspondents -- including the revered Walter Cronkite -- the film sheds light on propaganda and draws parallels between the Vietnam and Iraq wars."

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/War_Made_Easy_How_Presidents_and_Pundits_Keep_Spinning_Us_to_Death/70077708?trkid=2361637#height1753


Off topic...

It's Time for a Real Debate on National Health Insurance

May 12,1993
by Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon

Links...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6499259&mesg_id=6499259

"...Instead, they gathered in front of the New York Times building, and their demand was simple: "Stop rationing health care news!" The protesters are angry over the fact that the newspaper's reporting routinely downplays a popular proposal-endorsed by 12 of New York City's 14 members of Congress-to overhaul the American health system: a singlepayer system of publicly-financed health care.

Poll after poll has shown that most Americans favor tax-financed national health insurance. But at the New York Times and other national media, proponents are kept at the periphery of the health care debate. They include 58 members of Congress who, on March 3 <1993>, introduced a bill-"The American Health Security Act"-to establish a Canadian-style, single-payer system.

...Critics dismiss managed competition as a bureaucratic hoax that should be renamed the "Insurance Industry Preservation Act." They warn that the freedom to choose one's own doctor would be eroded. They say it's absurd to leave "reform" to the Jackson Hole group of special interests who profit from the inefficient status quo..."

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4. Double thank you! Jeff Cohen started F.A.I.R.

I used to read, actually 'study', his stuff in the early 90's. He and his staff woke my ass up and I got active inside the Dem party! I had to shout to get MAJOR health care reform added as a plank in the DCCM/delegates meeting. There was a Republican plant in there and he was slick, charismatic, and unashamed.

The subtitle is where he's surgical, "Decoding Bias and Blather in the News". He caused me to despise what the media was doing in the NAFTA "debates". Well... here we are.

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5. You woke up sooner than I did ...

gosh you must be old :) I "knew" back in the '90's and did not vote for Clinton, voted for Perot because I thought that sucking sound might take us over the edge, but could not have offered a reasonable explanation, just thought Perot made more sense and a close family member worked for his firm. All that aside I did not start paying attention until Bush was running. Then when the Iraq invasion took place I started paying more attention, unfortunately too many Dems went along, we controlled the Senate at the time ... then the rest is history, they went along :(

If ever there was a time when UNH could have advanced this was the time, but once again the idea of not for profit HC was sidelined in favor of keeping the for profit companies in business.

Dems and Repubs are not the same, but they do share too many for profit goals for me to be comfortable.

Back to War made Easy - definitely worth the time.

:hi:

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6. Yeah, I was a delegate for Brown, trying to keep Clinton out

There are differences for sure. From my societal position, the issues that matter -corporatism and the military industrial complex - they are two sides of the same damn coin.
Those 2 areas are prime for me.

But it won't change unless we wrest the media out of their hands (another thing Clinton moved to the corporatist side of the board). The fight continues with films like War Made Easy. Thanks again for the heads-up.