Current Events
Some believe that as of the Iraq War and Occupation, peace movements could be seen as part of a global effort to cohere "public opinion as a superpower" to compete with perceived U.S. unilateralism.
Peace movements are also generally thought to have benefited from the rise of Internet communication and coordination, the so-called smart mob technology. It was the outrage reported and blogged over the Internet that resulted in the cable news outlets abandoning their sensationalism of the Iraq War in 2003.
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