Comments on: Militainment, Inc. – Militarism and Pop Culture

By: N

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:07:00 +0000

america is over, history has repeated itself and our people do nothing. I am ashamed to call myself an american. I am afraid that this domino effect is out of control. All the innocent pray for us. death is our new religion. Its called war…

By: madhusudan sharma

madhusudan sharma — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:26:00 +0000

but human civilizations’ bloodlust is thousands of years old….initially it was colloseum now it is through TV, internet and video games….why blame the media…our forefathers loved it….we love it too…only medium has changed…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:51:00 +0000

Choice is really all you have- it’s all you are- and if this taken from you because you didn’t defend yourself with skepticism and logic, you are nothing. You risk becoming what someone else wants you to be and this is a great shame

By: anaheata

anaheata — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:49:00 +0000

great energy, spirit and hard work put into creating the modern weapons could have been put into improving our lifestyle, we are just channeling our resources toward the wrong end. why should Germans be better than us in renewable energies? they are the yesterday’s NAZIs but they learned to put aside the militarism, whereas, us, the winners of WWII are still running around for goddamn 8 years chasing we-don’t-know-who in Iraq.

By: Damos Abadon

Damos Abadon — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 05:42:00 +0000

Brain-washing. Hypnotism. Propaganda. dumb slaves. Lies. Murder. False flags. Staged operations.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:18:00 +0000

There is a massive difference between two packs of wolves fighting over a piece of territory and destroying countries for profit. also, (judging from your post i assume you didn’t pass 9th grade biology) plants don’t have brains; i.e. emotions, love/hate, a thought process, right/wrong or a set of morals, they just exist. Two flowers right next to each other are not at “war” over sunlight you idiot, one is just healthier than the other…War is NOT NEEDED for people to evolve as a species, in fact all it does is inhibit growth. All the time spent fighting and dieing, all the people lost that could have been teachers, scientists or otherwise leading a respectable moral life instead choose to kill rather than save. You can compete against one another without fighting…It’s people like you who just write war off as “nature” that are halting societies growth…A very deterministic view that encourages these bad things to happen and accepts them as part of the norm…Killing people over a natural resource may be a scenario that has been played out through the centuries time after time but it is NOT what we should accept as the proper or only way of solving problems….I could write 3 more paragraphs but i’m pretty sure you are too damn ignorant or thick to accept the fact that wars are evil and not the make of a moral society or government.

By: Marcelo Zamorano

Marcelo Zamorano — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:20:00 +0000

…as to deplorable anti-Americanism blah, blah, blah it makes perfect sense to discuss the violence the US has exercised on other people for their oil. It is an American right to be able to feel and express dissent. It is insane that there are accepted lies to justify the most impressive attacks far away on the other side of the globe. This documentary is a counter argument to the s*** that FUXs news network and Co feed to people. There has to be a “liberal voice” otherwise we will be forced to get our news from other more progressive countries’ media, e.g.the BBC. Most people that support wars are the ones that do the least of the fighting. Someone here mentioned the attack on Vietnam the “American war”, I wonder what did they ever do to us? The same for the 9/11 attack how many Iraqis were part of that attack? Libya—if they had onions instead of oil would their political situation matter? If it is being done for humanitarian reasons let’s go straight to Darfur and North Korea instead… Sorry I wonder about all this and sorry I am not supportive of the American system. There is no other country in the world more destructive than this one. It is amazing to me how indifferent and ignorant people people in the US are towards the rest of the world. It is amazing to me how violent people are here. So yes, excellent documentary and thank you!

By: Nationalist

Nationalist — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:48:45 +0000

Why can liberals in the United States not understand that the conservative movement as manifested in the form of FOX news and conservative talk-radio (i.e. Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Lavin, & Michael Savage) is a reaction against the deplorable popularization of anti-American political rhetoric that dominated mainstream print and cable media after the Vietnam War. A sizable portion of the American public is simply tired of listening to the same psuedo-Marxist arguments (i.e. war is waged solely to acquire natural resources and new markets in order to advance a neo-imperliastic agenda and war is waged as a result of the military industrial complex’s profiteering) and disqusted with post-Modern, post-Structuralist political anaylsis that neglect the good that American military intervention has achieved by solely focusing on the alledged ulterior motives behind intervention.

The only conclusion that I want to draw is that American society is better served with the presence of a major cable news network (i.e. Fox News) that gives a conservative analysis of domestic and international news rather than being dominated by a liberal analysis of news. There are usually always two sides to every argument. Liberals simply do not want to engage in debate either out of a fear that their political and social ideals will not win the day over accepted common sense or out of a will to simply dominate discussion and silence dissent.

By: Pavlin

Pavlin — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:20:50 +0000

This documentary is as sad as it is great.

By: Winston Smith

Winston Smith — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:37:28 +0000

and Henry Kissinger is a swell kinda guy! because he advocates for many a war, i.e. nature, and is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of innocent third world peoples. Now that’s survival of the fittest! right phil atio? Right? yeah dead children bro! cool nature stuff! doesn’t it get hot and sweaty with your head so firmly planted in that cavity? dude your back must get totally soar!

By: Winston Smith

Winston Smith — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:24:08 +0000

yeah, cos a bunch of unsubstantiated nonsense so war is rad and nature and stuff! profanity, name calling, hitler, jew, muhammed, make nature war! forgive the deplorable grammer, just trying to speak blow job’s, er phil atio’s language. seriously though, war does happen, sometimes justified, sometimes not, but it’s always ugly and obviously good people always die in war. to write such things off as the due course of nature is simply self serving and cold hearted. and to glorify war in the manner with which modern media does is misleading, and has ultimately led to the misinformation of young peopple all over the world who have died and left countless loved ones devistated! so revel in it phil, what a sad existance you must be enveloped in! oh yeah, hitler and stuff so EVERY WAR is way cool nature like trees that blow away other trees with predator drones!

By: phil atio

phil atio — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 07:53:29 +0000

@Ramus,
O yes the old anti jew card, anyone who does not support Western propagandist version of the past is automatically a jew hater. Hitler had Jew ancestry that is a fact. If I am a Nazi and you are an old imperialist colonialists you are a bigger murderer, genocider, rapists, and hatemonger than me. Because the nazis did not kill 1/4 of the people that the colonialist in africa and america did. Of course the typical colonialist like yourself does not count natives and blacks as people becuase your racists. Hitler invaded his neighbours so Churchill was justified in attacking him, yet Chruchill and his criminal brethern invaded dozens of countries and anyone who invaded them or resisted them was automaticaly wrong.

Hitler did not invade Britain until Britain DECLARED WAR because Hitler was trying to do a pre-emptive strike to cripple the british from invading germany which ultimately failed.

Youa re saying churchill would be foolish to allow hitler to walk in to britain and I argue hitler would be equally foolish to allow britain to take over germany.

‘“England and France and the allies all declared war on Hitler because Germany was rising to power.” err yes by invading countries and killing innocent people’
Yes because when Britain took over half of africa, canada, usa, australia, carribean, china, india and asia minor, they never killed an innocent soul, nope the trasnatlantic genocidal slave trade which according to dr. khalid muhammad saw the death of 600 million africans at the hands of european slave traders who were mostly british and french followed by spain and portugal did not kill any innocent people. aboriginal and aborignes genocide, never happened all these people just let the british have their land, sure, Hitler built the concentration models based off o the british concnetration camps for native americans.

“Hitler was not the aggressor of WW2?…. are you living on Mars? Hitler had already invaded France you i@#$%, what the hell were we supposed to do? Lie back and start sewing swastikas into our pants? Your comments belong on a toilet stall door”
Hitler invaded france after they declared war on him and put french troops on the german border for attack.

By: Ramus

Ramus — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:02:49 +0000

@philatio

Im guessing your a Nazi. Hitler invaded its neighbors and was intent on conquering the whole of Europe. Are you suggesting Churchill should have sat on his a@#$ and said “Ok Hitler you can have our country” Get real. “Hitler had Jewish ancestry…” So what? Are you next going to deny the Holocaust. Your remark about the Germans being under attack by the British is stupid and wrong. “England and France and the allies all declared war on Hitler because Germany was rising to power.” err yes by invading countries and killing innocent people. “Hitler was not the aggressor of WW2″…. are you living on Mars? Hitler had already invaded France you i@#$%, what the hell were we supposed to do? Lie back and start sewing swastikas into our pants? Your comments belong on a toilet stall door.

By: Phil Atio

Phil Atio — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:58:00 +0000

“its hilarious how people claim war is unnecessary. im pretty sure it took a war to defeat nazism…”
You mean how churchill decalred war on Hitler. Do you realize that the reason the German people supported hitler so heavily is because they felt they were under attack by the british? Do you know that more people were killed in the dresden airbombings in germany than in hiroshima and nagasaki combined.

I call the characterization of Hitler the greatest lie in western history. Yes he kileld jews, but he was not the aggressor of ww2. England and france and the allies all declared war on hitler because germany was rising to power. fdr wanted to bomb germany so he lets the tojos blow up pearl harbour. The japs bomb pearl harbour so america declares war on germany and sends millions of americans o go occupy a country that had nothing to do with it. That makes about as much sense as when a bunch of saudi back wahabbi muslims bombed the wtc 9/11 and we invade afghanistan then iraq.

Hitler had jew ancestry, 150,000 jews worked for hitler, there is a list of jewish friends of hitler and these wars that do not involve america are not necessary. America should stop spending money on bombing people and start spending money on its poor people

By: BS

BS — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:24:36 +0000

War is necessary? Do you characterize the attack on September 11 as war as well? I guess in your book, that was absolutely necessary as well. The smaller plant trying to get longer to block you out…so to speak…eh?