Wow! That was a really excellent video essay!
One of the things that struck me about all this was that the mainstream media did not report heavily on Libya. And, I did not know that the USA directly bombed the area, (except of course during the Regan era retaliation over the terror attacks in Italy).
Also it is mind boggling to see how many people have fallen in line with mainstream media in their hatred of Trump. Granted he's not exactly anti-war, but that isn't the point. My point is that the "left" has been transformed into a counterpart for the neo-cons fuming for war. And of course they want war with Russia. And if there are no Ruskies available, it seems Antifa will be happy to pound anyone's head in for exercising their First Amendment Right of Free Speech. (Also, I think the unthinking masses are why Zombie films were so popular leading up to the rise of the violent left. While I know deliberate entrainment exists, I also feel people are a bit psychic and it comes out in art, film, etc...).
And it seems the mainstream media has won a small battle in axing Alex Jones from social media. This is a massive tell of their desperation. And what I thought would happen is happening as classic liberals who would never click on an infowars banner, are now calling foul on the Tech Giants censorship of his platforms.
While on one hand I wonder if we will ever get to the point where The Corbett Report is censored for "hatespeech", on the other hand I feel excited about being alive in all this history. We are looking at an overt globalist takeover of social media. And combined with their dominance on mainstream media, right before a mid-term election in the USA, you have to laugh at bit at how they do not have the creativity to counter independent media.
Many people feel we would all be breathing radioactive dust now if HRC became POTUS. And what I call "The Grand Conspiracy" wherein the world is transformed into a "beyond-1984" Hunger Games global gulag would be incubating as the nuclear fire settled.
And it seems being able to hammer people down in the guise of "hatespeech" is yet another lie by omission to add all this.
Thank you for expanding on Smedley Butler's War is a Racket speech. The whole left/right paradigm is such a transparent narrative when we look at the long view you provide here. During the segment when Phil Donahue was discussing his producers were pro-conservative, I realized CNN and several other MSM outlets have turned the tables and only have (so-called) liberal hosts.
BTW - Do you subscribe to a service to get all that great b-roll? If not? Where do you get it?