Thanks to the radio/TV program “Democracy Now,” hundreds of thousands of people across our country recently heard and watched a sneak-preview excerpt from the documentary film based on Norman Solomon’s book War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death.

Narrated by Sean Penn, and produced by the superb independent filmmakers at the Media Education Foundation, War Made Easy is a powerful indictment of the current U.S. warfare state and a call to action. Solomon hopes it will inspire a nationwide surge of antiwar activism.

The 73-minute film reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to exhume remarkable archival footage. It exposes a 50-year pattern of deception that has dragged the U.S. into one war after another. And the film zeroes in on the current historical moment – the techniques of propaganda that are preventing an end to a horrific war effort based on lies.

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