Solomon on the Branding of Warfare
Norman Solomon has a nice piece over at Working for Change called Branding new and improved wars, about the careful attention politico-military types give these days to choosing catchy names like “Enduring Freedom” for their activities.
November 4th, 2002 at 7:26 pm
Hehehe, pretty soon the wars will have corporate sponsors… “Coverage of [whatever war is happening] brought to you by Tang!…”
[leader of whatever country we're against] mixing up a glass of Tang, suddenly an orangutang comes out and busts his ass while an excited, booming voice says “Tang, it’s a kick in the bad-guy’s mouth!”
Keep in mind, their target audience is children :D
Of course, we already know that presidents are owned by corporations, and therfore the war _ITSELF_ is brought to you by [whatever super-company owns the president at your time of reading this], so it’s merely the coverage that has yet to be sponsored.
The U.S. of A. — trading physical rape and mental slavery for mental rape and physical slavery for over 225 years!