NYC Event: War Made Easy

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NYC Event: War Made Easy

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Join Norman Solomon, Dahr Jamail & FAIR

for a New York City reading and book launch:

 

WAR MADE EASY

How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us To Death

 

Thursday July 14th

Reception 6:30, Reading 7:30

The Brecht Forum

451 West Street, NYC

between Bethune & Bank Streets

 

In his new book, War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep

Spinning Us to Death, media critic, author and FAIR associate Norman

Solomon

examines 50 years of press corps complicity in promoting military

endeavors. From Vietnam to Panama to Iraq, he reveals a consistent

strategy

of distorting facts, demonizing the enemy and labeling dissent as

" unpatriotic. "

 

Just back from a trip to Iran, possibly the next U.S. military target,

Solomon will give us the critical tools we need to separate real news

from propaganda--and help prevent the next repeat performance.

 

Joining him will be Dahr Jamail, one of the few independent US

journalists reporting from Iraq. Weary of the overall failure of the

US media

to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi

people and US soldiers, Jamail went to Iraq to report on the war

himself. Recently returned from the Middle East, Jamail will give us the

crucial stories we aren't receiving from the news media.

 

Proceeds of the event will benefit FAIR

Cocktails and reading

$15 sliding scale

RSVP 212.633.6700 ext 318

 

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