Blog #5 - Media Against Anti-war Voices

 We often link the viewpoint of being Anti-war with the "hippies" of the sixties. The United States war in Vietnam stands to this day as the most opposed war in American history. According to an article on USHistory.org, the average ago of soldiers in this war was nineteen and made up primarily of lower class Americans who could not pay their way out of the draft with college. Many Americans retaliated including famous Boxer Muhammad Ali and Civil Rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.. This was the beginning of an anti-war movement that still stands in the US.

When researching the Anti-War movement, it became obvious that it is not being circulated in the mainstream media and was only able to be found on sites that I have never heard of. 

The first site that I looked through was called Antiwar.com. The headlines on this site talked about how the United States is depicting the Russian threat of nuclear weapons as more than it truly is and how Ukraine is arresting their own citizens for supporting Russia. The next site that I searched is called Theamericanconservative.com. Many of the articles on this site spoke about the dangers of entering a war that we don't need and being realistic about relations in foreign countries. 

So why is it that we have to try so hard to find these Anti-war voices? An article posted by Darius Shahtahmasebi  points out that American owned social media companies are blocking posts that go against the United States position in foreign affairs. An article for The Baltimore Sun discusses the viewpoint that being Anti-war is inherently Anti-American and many people believe this to be true. Mainstream media fears streaming information that may make them appear this way.