Attacking Our Memory by John Pilger
Historical amnesia can spread quickly. Only ten years after the Vietnam war, which I reported, an opinion poll in the United States found that a third of Americans could not remember which side their government had supported. This demonstrated the insidious power of the dominant propaganda, that the war was essentially a conflict of 'good' Vietnamese against 'bad' Vietnamese, in which the Americans became 'involved,' bringing democracy to the people of southern Vietnam faced with a 'communist threat.' Such a false and dishonest assumption permeated the media coverage, with honourable exceptions.
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