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Noam Chomsky - Why Propaganda Works

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Professor Noam Chomsky speaking on how and why propaganda works. Additional footage added regarding the successful campaign by the Bush Administration to manipulate public consciousness to build support for war, setting up Iraq and Iran as phantom enemies of the U.S., when our true motivations remain obscured by patriotic and fear-based illusions.
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