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2) War made easy : how presidents & pundits keep spinning us to death: The bases are loaded ; Flight
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Ironweed film club volume no. 28
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1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three films examine modern American war, especially the Iraq War, and the propaganda, political agendas, and deceptions that may underly it. War made easy, based on the bestselling book by Norman Solomon, examines the strategies used by administrations, both Democratic and Republican, to promote their agendas for war from Vietnam to Iraq, and how propaganda and the media are used to persuade the nation that military aggression has been the appropriate...
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91 pages : chiefly illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Though nearly everyone has heard of it, almost no one has known anything about it... until now. Located in the remote Nevada desert near the dry bed of Groom Lake, Area 51 is the most famous military installation in the world that doesn't "officially" exist. In Area 51, author Dwight Zimmerman and artist Greg Scott unravel the real history -- minus the aliens and sci-fi movie plots -- revealing in detail how for more than 60 years, the CIA, the U.S....
4) Army brats
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English
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When the Bailey family moves into an army base in Virginia there are a lot of adjustments to make; twelve-year-old Tom runs afoul of the base school bully, ten-year-old Charlotte finds herself trying too hard to make friends with the "cool" girls, and six-year-old Rosie is just being difficult as usual -- but they come together to investigate a mysterious building full of weird cages, and uncover Fort Patrick's secrets.
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321 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Language
English
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"An examination of the complex relationship between the women living near the U.S. base in Okinawa and the servicemen who are stationed there."
Okinawa, at the southern end of the Japanese archipelago, is host to a vast complex of U.S. military bases. Tensions are often exacerbated by the volatile relationship between islanders and the military, especially after the brutal rape of a twelve-year-old girl by three servicemen in the 1990s. Johnson focuses...
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