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    The war you don't see


    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDutkYQF9d8


    Warning contains some distressing scenes

    The western mainstream media’s role in a promoting any war or conflict can never be underestimated, as history has demonstrated time and time again, with their willingness to blindly promote the international corporate and shadow government’s foreign policy objectives.

    This is the story about a film which none of were supposed to see. Not because the film wasn’t up to professional journalistic standards, or that it was of poor quality. It was neither of those. Against the odds and the establishment-owned international media syndicate, filmmaker and award-winning journalist John Pilger reveals one of the most damning indictments of American and British mainstream media…


    John Pilger has made twenty five documentaries, but this one did not receive a warm reception in Barrack Obama’s America.

    The makers were dis-invited from the US premiere just 48 hours before they got on a plane to Santa Fe, New Mexico. The sponsor, uber-liberal multi-millionaire, Patrick Lannan, had a flunky send them at ‘sorry for the inconvenience’ e-mail. The reason for the ban? No explanation. Here’s the letter written by John Pilger about what happened…

    An open letter to Noam Chomsky and the general public.

    Dear Noam,

    I am writing to you and a number of other friends mostly in the US to alert you to the extraordinary banning of my film on war and media, ‘The War You Don’t See’, and the abrupt cancellation of a major event at the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe in which David Barsamian and I were to discuss free speech, US foreign policy and censorship in the media.

    Lannan invited me and David over a year ago and welcomed my proposal that they also host the US premiere of ‘The War You Don’t See’, in which US and British broadcasters describe the often hidden part played by the media in the promotion of war, notably in Iraq and Afghanistan. The film has been widely acclaimed in the UK and Australia; the trailer and reviews are on my website www.johnpilger.com

    The banning and cancellation, which have shocked David and me, are on the personal orders of Patrick Lannan, whose wealth funds the Lannan Foundation as a liberal centre of discussion of politics and the arts. Some of you will have been there and will know the Lannan Foundation as a valuable supporter of liberal causes. Indeed, I was invited in 2002 to present a Lannan award to the broadcaster Amy Goodman.

    What is deeply disturbing about the ban is that it happened so suddenly and inexplicably: 48 hours before David Barsamian and I were both due to depart for Santa Fe I received a brief email with a ‘sorry for the inconvenience’ from a Lannan official who had been telling me just a few days earlier what a ‘great honour’ it was to have the US premiere of my film at Lannan, with myself in attendance.

    I urge you to visit the Lannan website www.lannan.org Good people like Michael Ratner, Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald are shown as participants in discussion about freedom of speech. I am there, too, but my name is the only one with a line through it and the word, ‘Cancelled.’

    Neither David Barsamian nor I have been given a word of explanation. All my messages to Lannan have gone unanswered; my calls calls are not returned; my flights were cancelled summarily. At the urging of the New Mexican newspaper, Patrick Lannan has issued a one-sentence statement offering his regrets to the Lannan-supporting ‘community’ in Santa Fe. Again, he gives no reason for the ban. I have spoken to the manager of the Santa Fe cinema where ‘The War You Don’t See’ was to be screened. He received a late-night call. Again, no reason for the ban was forthcoming, giving him barely time to cancel advertising in The New Mexican, which was forced to drop a major feature.

    There is a compelling symbol of our extraordinary times in all of this. A rich and powerful individual and organisation, espousing freedom of speech, has moved ruthlessly and unaccountably to crush it.

    With warm regards

    John Pilger

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    all over facebook here in the uk i see people saying or posting support our troops.
    i have actually posted the chopper one shooting the reporters,but people still do not get it or are unwilling to accept the truth of what is happening in the false wars.
    i used my partners facebook to post these as i deleted mine a while back.
    point being the support our troops is a media and political controlled movement to keep the masses in believing that the wars started by our goverments is true and for the best for our countries.
    the true horrors of war people do not want to see.
    they want to see brave heroes,injured heroes,a love rekindled by war.
    that's what the people want to see.

    the response i got was ok that,s terrible but then the next day it was lets support our troops again?


    ahhh don,t get me on a rant

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    It's truly frustrating to see the brainwashed waving flags of honour , I can't believe that it gets each new generation to believe in it by new means , xbox games of war , desensitising the young , join the army for a fun new life of travel , pride and challenge . It stinks !!! But I do see people dropping their beliefs , but it seems very slow and i can't do much but pray and will those asleep to wake up ,

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    FB has become a powerful tool for manipulating public opinion. Almost the 2nd internet. A lot of the time people no longer say "I'll email you" but "I'll facebook you" !

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    why are our goverments,both the us and british.
    why are they not being held accountable for genocide or war for the purpose of weapons of mass illusion?

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