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[Wounded Bear]

17. I'd say that our media situation is starting to closely resemble...

"The Golden Age" back in the late 1800's, when media conglomerates basically swept the US into the Spanish-American War in 1998. They called it "yellow journalism," perhaps because it rained down like horse piss on the unsuspecting populace, who, in their patriotic fervor, supported a war of aggression against a faltering Spain. The trigger? "Remember the Maine!" It was probably an accidental boiler explosion, but it was popularized into a bomb plot by the Spanish in Cuba and never really investigated, just used for the purpose of getting war fever up.

The similarities between that and Iraq are quite striking. They had to work a little harder to make the Iraqi-9-11 connection, but it worked.

Same problem. Large corporate ownership of multiple media outlets shoveling propaganda to a populace distracted by making a basic living.

War is enormously profitable to those who don't really have a dog in the fight. The 1% won't put their kids on the firing line. Vietnam only ended when the draft was extended to ALL kids, not just the poor and disadvantaged. Soon after we had the "all volunteer" service. Mostly that was to make sure that only the lower classes were put in actual combat.

Yeah, I'm a little cynical.