[Peace] War Made Easy screening tomorrow

[Robert Naiman]

http://warmadeeasy.bravenewtheaters.com/screening/show/9627

Community United Church and Just Foreign Policy
Wednesday, August 01 2007 07:00 PM

WAR MADE EASY:
How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death

Narrated by Sean Penn
War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a
50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has
dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to
Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes
remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration
from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the
American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war
messages of successive presidential administrations.

War Made Easy gives special attention to parallels between the Vietnam
war and the war in Iraq. Guided by media critic Norman Solomon's
meticulous research and tough-minded analysis, the film presents
disturbing examples of propaganda and media complicity from the
present alongside rare footage of political leaders and leading
journalists from the past, including Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon,
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, dissident Senator Wayne Morse, and
news correspondents Walter Cronkite and Morley Safer.