Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land

If you are not afraid of the truth then watch this film. If you love humanity and believe children deserve a chance at hope then watch this film. Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land is one of the most important films I have seen. The Media Education Foundation (MEF) in response to the uncritical reaction by Western media to Israel’s massacre of Gaza, released this feature documentary online for free.

Now, when you first see a grenade, you may think of war, but probably not peace. This poster reveals the absurdity in what is consider by many to be the norm – “We must go to war to have peace.” Peace – War demands that the viewer question what is taken for granted. Year after year the public is sold this same double speak campaign that we must fight to have peace. Sounds rather ridiculous doesn’t it? Or does it? Has the contradictory and the preposterous been so ingrained in us that our thoughts find logic in what was once considered irrational?

You can watch Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land online or download it for free.

There is a New Voice in Town – for the People!

Nashville has a new paper called the Nashville Free Press – The Progressive Voice of the People. The Free Press is a biweekly community newspaper and “born of the belief that the job of the media is to challenge the status quo, not prop it up. At the Nashville Free Press, the customer is the reader, not the advertiser. The corporate dominance of local markets…has subdued the debate, silenced conflicting voices, shuttered the unfettered marketplace of ideas, and steered the ship of state into dangerous and narrow straits. Robust competition and ownership diversity are more essential than ever to the economic health, vitality and viability of our community.” From Vol. 1 of The Nashville Free Press.

What first caught my attention was the cover of the second issue, which is pictured in this post. At last, there is a voice whom is willing to reveal the reality and horrors of war. The tragedy and brutality that innocent children experience as a direct result of political corruption and moral degeneracy must end now! If you have the courage to read the linked article and do your own research you may discover that there are new weapons being used that are considered crimes against humanity. The time has come to use common sense. Killing people is wrong. There is nothing more to say.

I ask you to take a moment and question what you hear on the radio, watch on TV or read on your computer. Your leaders will try to persuade you that dropping bombs on civilians is a necessary consequence for your safety. They tell us every day that we need to wipe certain people off the planet to ensure our freedom. This is insanity. Do we really believe these ridiculous lies? Listen to what they are saying to us! Use our brains and do not let them deceive us any longer. Question authority – who will really gain by these action? But more importantly, who will suffer? Will it be a little child playing with a friend? How would you like to live in such a place where fear and terror were your neighbors? No one would wish this upon themselves, but unfortunately some families do not have a choice. Let us stop supporting these politicians and corporations with selfish interests and help our brothers and sisters at home and around the world.

Henry David Thoreau wrote “If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.”