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Article: War is sell
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- Isthmus
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- September 26, 2008
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War is sell
Lampooning the big business of global conflict
War, Inc.
Sundance
If satires are what close on Saturday night, as George S. Kaufman once wrote, then political satires are lucky if they make it to Friday afternoon. Yet they keep popping up, like sniper fire. And here's War, Inc. , another one. Luckily, it hits its tar- get more often than most do. The target, of course, is the size of Texas, what some have taken to calling the entertainment-military-industrial complex. When the multinational corporations finally take over the world, wars will be a natural part of the business cycle, and the whole thing will be packaged, marketed and branded like a bar of soap - Wall Street meets ...
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