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Army (1969)

1969 · Ephemeral film · 18 min

Synopsis

newsreel - circa 1969

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Running time
18 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives
Internet Archive item
6365Army01210110

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★★★★★ · THIS MUST BE SEEN BY PEOPLE TODAY!!! · dahszil · 2014-07-07

This is just as apt a criticism today as it was in 1969. It applies to all US wars after ww2. They are wars for big business. they don't give a fu#K how many soldiers and innocents in foreign countries to get blown up or worse, live with a life long disability. The second half of the video is the most important. It lays out the outrageous but simple truths as to why the US goes to war to exploit resource rich countries or to break up countries so they can beggar poor states that the IMF and corporations can exploit cheap labor and resources. thats what was inflicted on Yugoslavia by the…

★★★ · Brothers · Spuzz · 2020-07-31

Another Newsreel, a severe anti-government, anti-war, and certainly anti-draft group. This film is basically about the draft, though it does meander off into other subjects, but the objective is quite clear, fuck the system. Yup.

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