Media Propaganda Creates "Know-Nothing Americans". Majority In Favor of War
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By <https://www.globalresearch.ca/author/stephen-lendman> Stephen Lendman
Global Research, July 30, 2019
Americans are the most over-entertained, uninformed citizens on planet earth
- despite around 80% of US households having Internet access, making it easy
to stay informed with minimal effort. Manipulated by the power of
state-sponsored and go-along establishment media propaganda, Americans are
ignorant about geopolitical and other major issues affecting their lives and
welfare.
It's why both right wings of the US war party get away with ravaging one
country after another - while the FBI and police nationwide operate with
impunity as enforcers for powerful interests, grievously breaching the
rights of ordinary people.
Reality is clear. The US already is a police state because of repressive
laws overwhelmingly passed by Congress, supported by the executive and
federal courts.
Based on events post-9/11 at home and abroad, things in the US are heading
toward full-blown tyranny and ruin.
Perhaps it's another major state-sponsored false flag away, wrongfully
blamed on elements having nothing to do with it, followed by martial law and
suspension of the Constitution on the phony pretext of sacrificing
fundamental rights for greater security, losing both in the process.
Polls consistently show Americans are out-of-touch with reality.
Earlier polls showed most Americans favor war on North Korea if diplomacy
fails. Other polls showed around half of Americans believe war on Iran is
coming.
Both countries are viewed as threats to the US despite their nonbelligerent
agendas. Iran hasn't attacked another country in centuries.
Nor has North Korea throughout its entire post-WW II history - while the US
wages forever wars against invented enemies, its ruling class hostile to
world peace.
Annual Gallup polls since 1989 showed from 79 - 87% of Americans view Iran
as "mostly (or) very unfavorabl(y)." Throughout this period, they viewed the
Islamic Republic from 5 to 17% favorably.
North Korean nukes, ballistic missiles, and other weapons are solely for
defense - to deter the legitimate threat of US aggression.
<https://www.globalresearch.ca/invented-enemies-of-america-the-myth-of-a-nor
th-korean-threat/5617058> Invented "Enemies of America": The Myth of a North
Korean Threat
Iran's nuclear program has no military component, repeatedly confirmed by
nuclear watchdog IAEA monitors.
Since joining the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) nearly half a
century ago, Iran fully complied with its provisions.
According to Nukewatch co-director John LaForge,"(the United States is
perhaps the principle nuclear weapons proliferator in the world today,
openly flouting binding provisions of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of
Nuclear Weapons (NPT)."
Nuclear armed and dangerous Israel never signed NPT, the world community
doing nothing to challenge its menace to regional and world peace.
According to a new
<https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-six-in-ten-say-iran-north-ko
rea-pose-a-threat-to-us-safety> Fox News poll, around 60% of Americans view
Iran & North Korea as threats to US security - a questionable source, but
here are the results anyway.
Asked if North Korea "poses a real national security threat to the US, 60%
of respondents said "yes," only 27% saying "no."
Results to the same question on Iran are identical, pollster Daron Shaw
saying: "Despite changes in the partisanship of the White House and shifts
in geopolitics, the percentage of Americans who see Iran and North Korea as
threats has been quite consistent."
Over half of respondents (53%) support military action to prevent Iran from
developing nukes its leadership abhors, doesn't seek, never did, and wants
eliminated everywhere to remove the threat these WMDs pose to planet earth
and all its life forms if detonated in enough numbers.
A higher percentage (57%) favor attacking North Korea militarily to prevent
expansion of its nuclear weapons program.
Most respondents also disapprove of how Trump is dealing with both nations.
Beacon Research and Shaw & Company conducted the poll on July 21 - 23 "with
1,004 randomly chosen registered voters nationwide who spoke with live
interviewers on both landlines and cellphones."
Like other polls on major geopolitical and other issues, results show an
ignorant electorate.
Lincoln reportedly said: "You can fool some of the people all of the time,
and all of the people some of the time."
Most Americans are easily fooled time and again - no matter how many times
they were duped before, especially on issues of war and peace.
Notably it's true about nations threatening no one like Iran and North
Korea.
Throughout the post-WW II era, no nations threatened US security.
All US post-WW II wars were and continue to be waged against nations
threatening no one - threats invented to justify what's illegal and
unjustifiable.
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