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.
The new budget from the White House will push U.S. military spending well above $2 billion a day. Foreclosing the future of our country should not be confused with defending it.
Posted on Feb 2, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Obama spoke of "the world as it is" and insisted that "war is sometimes necessary" -- but generalities do nothing to mitigate the horrors of war being endured by others.
Posted on Dec 10, 2009, Source: AlterNet
It doesn't much matter whether people "support" the escalation. What matters is whether they openly oppose it -- and, if so, how vocally and emphatically.
Posted on Nov 30, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Fine-tuning the U.S. war in Afghanistan is no substitute for acknowledging -- with words and with policy -- that there will be no military solution.
Posted on Nov 13, 2009, Source: AlterNet
How long will the U.S. continue destroying Afghanistan under the flimsy pretense of "helping?"
Posted on Sep 10, 2009, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
The year's stinkiest media performances.
Posted on Dec 30, 2008, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
Progressives must push for economic justice, health care for all, civil liberties, environmental protection and demilitarization.
Posted on Oct 28, 2008, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
The news media played a pivotal role in stampeding the country into a bailout that was unwise and unjust.
Posted on Oct 14, 2008, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
It blows the conformist minds of big-name journalists to see "The Daily Show" regularly slam right-wing rulers.
Posted on Sep 12, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Support for Obama should not require a lack of candor about his defects.
Posted on Aug 20, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Health care as a human right? What a concept.
Posted on Aug 8, 2008, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
Obama's Tuesday win represents a victory over a press corps fixated on fluff over substance.
Posted on May 7, 2008, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
The only way for Democrats to challenge U.S. militarism is to condemn the Iraq war as inherently immoral.
Posted on Mar 4, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Our own mourning should help us understand and strive to prevent the unspeakable pain of others.
Posted on Jan 23, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Why Edwards was the most improved presidential candidate of 2007.
Posted on Jan 3, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Sometimes it helps to get some advice on messaging from a pro.
Posted on Dec 28, 2007, Source: AlterNet
The year's stinkiest media performances.
Posted on Dec 26, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Glenn Beck has a selective enthusiasm for the issue of "full disclosure."
Posted on Dec 19, 2007, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
Media outlets aren't just giving short shrift to organized labor. The avoidance extends to unorganized labor, too.
Posted on Nov 26, 2007, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
Thanks to the military-industrial -media complex, Americans view humanity through red-white -and-blue windows on the world.
Posted on Sep 10, 2007, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: CounterPunch
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, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
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