Anti War and The American Conservative: Get to Know Them

    My initial reaction when I consider the reason that voices similar to those on The American Conservative and Antiwar.com are constantly hidden from the public is that the information that these sources share is pretty scary. Informative outlets like these expose our government of deceiving its people and operating without most common citizens having any awareness of what is going on behind the scenes. 

    For example, one article ca
lls out the American government for continuing to send billions of dollars to Ukraine despite the fact that our military has identified that achieving a victory isn’t in sight, and so money is basically being sent for no reasonable cause. Another page posted on the Anti.war site demonstrates that the United States hasn’t been compensating for Iraqi people who were subjected to torture throughout the conflict between the U.S. and Iraq. 

    For the political powers of this country, limiting the access of this information to the general public seems more practical. If people are able to recognize the hypocrisies of political lea
ders and systems, it might encourage more people to advocate for some type of democratic change or reform. 

    By misleading the public, the government is also able to uphold its schemes to profit off of people who are either indifferent about politics and foreign affairs, or just too lazy to learn more about it. Although most of the news found on these types of sources leaves American citizens in disbelief and disagreement, these affairs end up being allowed because people continue to support the leaders of their political parties instead of finding more information and protesting the things they disagree with. 

    Since these more seemingly “radical” types of media are more challenging to find, people tend to stop looking or just decide to listen to mainstream news outlets instead. I hope that eventually, these types of sites become more mainstream because everyone deserves to know the truth about how their government operates.