Stories by Norman Solomon
Norman Solomon's latest book Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State (PoliPointPress) is available now. For more information go to www.madelovegotwar.com.
Some members of Congress have asked Obama to reconsider sending 17,000 troops to Afghanistan. But the list is awfully short.
Posted on Mar 27, 2009
The year's stinkiest media performances.
Posted on Dec 30, 2008
Bill Clinton's alleged lurch to the left in '92 is being used to push Obama to the right. Problem is, it never happened.
Posted on Nov 20, 2008
Barack Obama won the presidency after clearly saying that he wants to spread the wealth. Let's make him do it.
Posted on Nov 6, 2008
Progressives must push for economic justice, health care for all, civil liberties, environmental protection and demilitarization.
Posted on Oct 28, 2008
Moving a progressive agenda on Capitol Hill will take more than defeating Republicans. It will also require electing strong progressives.
Posted on Oct 22, 2008
The news media played a pivotal role in stampeding the country into a bailout that was unwise and unjust.
Posted on Oct 14, 2008
Some progressives believe the McCain campaign is doomed. Let's not forget how low the Republicans will go to win.
Posted on Oct 9, 2008
It blows the conformist minds of big-name journalists to see "The Daily Show" regularly slam right-wing rulers.
Posted on Sep 12, 2008
Support for Obama should not require a lack of candor about his defects.
Posted on Aug 20, 2008
Health care as a human right? What a concept.
Posted on Aug 8, 2008
The old claims of a justified war in Iraq have melted away. So have promises of a humane society back at home.
Posted on Jun 19, 2008
Bush's rhetoric on Iran is frighteningly similar to his pantomime of diplomacy in the build-up to the Iraq war. And the media is eating it up.
Posted on Jun 12, 2008
The fight for the nomination has fueled a combustible anger among Democrats. Let's hope the American people don't get burned.
Posted on Jun 4, 2008
Obama's Tuesday win represents a victory over a press corps fixated on fluff over substance.
Posted on May 7, 2008
Obama has the potential to become as great a president as FDR, while activists have the potential to prompt change comparable to the New Deal.
Posted on Apr 21, 2008
When even public radio parrots the military's official line on the war in Iraq, what hope is there for unbiased, quality reporting?
Posted on Mar 27, 2008
Here's an obvious solution to the health care crisis: why not cut the Pentagon's massive budget to fund health care for all?
Posted on Mar 11, 2008
The only way for Democrats to challenge U.S. militarism is to condemn the Iraq war as inherently immoral.
Posted on Mar 4, 2008
Our own mourning should help us understand and strive to prevent the unspeakable pain of others.
Posted on Jan 23, 2008
Why Edwards was the most improved presidential candidate of 2007.
Posted on Jan 3, 2008
Sometimes it helps to get some advice on messaging from a pro.
Posted on Dec 28, 2007
The year's stinkiest media performances.
Posted on Dec 26, 2007
Glenn Beck has a selective enthusiasm for the issue of "full disclosure."
Posted on Dec 19, 2007
Human rights day passed by with barely any notice -- but we would all do well to understand the meaning of human rights.
Posted on Dec 13, 2007
Media outlets aren't just giving short shrift to organized labor. The avoidance extends to unorganized labor, too.
Posted on Nov 26, 2007
A real hazard of preoccupations with Blackwater is that it will become a scapegoat for what is profoundly and fundamentally wrong with the U.S. effort and mission.
Posted on Oct 16, 2007
The new book
Made Love, Got War documents five decades of rising American militarism and the media's all-to-frequent failure to challenge it.
Posted on Oct 1, 2007
As the autumn of 2007 begins, the reality of Uncle Sam as an unhinged mega-killer haunts a large minority of Americans.
Posted on Sep 12, 2007
Thanks to the military-industrial -media complex, Americans view humanity through red-white -and-blue windows on the world.
Posted on Sep 10, 2007
Nowadays you'll read the NYT's Thomas Friedman decrying the "madness that is Iraq," but the real Friedman is the man who called invading Iraq "one of the noblest things this country has ever attempted abroad."
Posted on Sep 7, 2007
The warfare state didn't suddenly arrive in 2001, and it won't disappear when the current lunatic in the Oval Office moves on.
Posted on Aug 23, 2007
A new film, War Made Easy, reveals how the man in charge of CNN's news operation before the Iraq War kowtowed to the Pentagon. So what does he have to say for himself now?
Posted on Aug 16, 2007
A grand total of two people in the entire Congress were able to resist a blood-drenched blank check for the Vietnam War. Decades later, a single Congress woman stood up after September 11, 2001 and voted against the gathering madness.
Posted on Aug 7, 2007
This week, the U.S. media establishment is mainlining another fix for the Iraq war: It isn't so bad after all.
Posted on Aug 2, 2007
Despite talk of Congress members turning against the war, few are clearly advocating a true end to U.S. military intervention in Iraq.
Posted on Jul 26, 2007
One aspect of news media that needs a different paradigm is the correction ritual. Newspapers are sometimes willing to acknowledge faulty reporting, but the "correction box" is routinely inadequate.
Posted on Jul 24, 2007
Listening to a video clip of the late Senator Morse speaking in the 1960s exposes the big media lie that members of Congress are doing all they can to impose a schedule for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
Posted on Jul 19, 2007
Many of America's most prominent journalists want us to forget what they were saying and writing more than four years ago to boost the invasion of Iraq.
Posted on Jul 5, 2007
Watching "news" at the remote, viewers are in a zone supplied by producers with priorities far afield from authenticity or democracy.
Posted on Jun 18, 2007
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