The Repetition Compulsion for War

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Inspired by Norman Solomon CommonDreams Oped.

The news media's tendency to focus on the technical sophistication of the war weaponry, makes the brainwashed forget about the reality of wars and blur the lines between wars, video games and their self created superheroes. But this is not about bragging about US weaponry as if it was Formula 1 racing cars. This is the old, tired pre-war propaganda tape that US main stream media loves to openly play during an illegitimate and intense incestuas act between government and private sector, all at the expense, yet again, of poor, innocent civilians abroad and at home.

In every single war you have the US news media praising the latest in 'state of the art' killing technology from the present moment to the war in Vietnam. It is a perverse spectacle of pseudo masculine mental masturbation, a mix of fake pride and high adrenaline "playoffs rush", a thrill of something BIG to come, framed as if it was the result of true universal progress and prosperity while it is nothing more and nothing less that a pervert act of massive destruction.

Those poundings and the following occupations and bombings are not just meant to kill and destroy every form of life but test new mixes of poisons and radioactive waste that will harm, destroy and deform all forms of human life for generations to come.

 

This montage of news footage (featuring narration from Sean Penn) captures the media frenzy over the military's latest weaponry in the months leading up to the Iraq war essentially turning news reports into a showcase for the Pentagon's 'state of the art' killing technology.

But, as Norman Solomon who so well puts it, "the usual agenda-building for war may not work this time".

The first week of September has stunned the military-industrial-media complex. It began with a familiar bellicose call for action from the president, seconded by leaders of both parties on Capitol Hill and echoed by mass media. And yet by the end of the week, grassroots opposition had interrupted the war momentum.

Senators and members of the House are being overwhelmed with anti-war messages via email, fax and phone. People are rising up to demand that Congress vote against launching a war on yet another country.

Whether Obama would actually abide by failure to gain congressional “authorization” to attack Syria is by no means clear. But our immediate task is to create such a failure.

This is a pivotal juncture of history in real time, an “all hands on deck” moment to exert enough public pressure to prevent a war-on-Syria resolution from getting through Congress. Such an outcome would thoroughly delegitimize any order from Obama to attack Syria. In the process, we would make real progress against the masters of war."

It's time to increase the volume and sink deeper the knife of truth in the oozing wound of US war history. The lies and massive public manipulations by the US government in the run up and during its wars and the utter lack of impunity that inevitably follows its acts of destructions and its spread of plutodemocracy are beginning to smell really bad.

There is no shining armor, no sparkling brass or high tech 3D animation of supersonic jets that can cover that rotting stench.

As it is such a timely documentary, we recommend you to watch War Made Easy

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