Screening of War Made Easy

Videos for Peace presents War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (73 min)

War Made Easy exposes 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. 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.
Free (donations accepted); wheelchair accessible; free popcorn.