Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Selling the public on teratogenic wars: ‘deceptions 2’ a lesson in war propaganda

Rady Ananda
Activist Post

Under 30 minutes, deceptions 2 is Chris Pratt’s follow-up to his popular full-length documentary from 2010 (reviewed here). D2 focuses on the use of public relations firms to manipulate the public into supporting foreign wars of aggression.

But these aren’t ordinary wars, where industry sends armies into the bush to slaughter natives to seize their lands. Instead, now the US and its allies are poisoning the lands they invade, using depleted uranium weapons and caustic chemicals, and generating an epidemic of birth defects.