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.
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, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
The numbers of Americans fighting and dying in Iraq are not a reliable measure of U.S. culpability in the continuing slaughter of Iraqis.
Posted on Jun 11, 2007, Source: AlterNet
We won't be able to change the militaristic direction of this country without effectively confronting the congressional Democrats who are fueling the engines of destruction.
Posted on May 24, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Let's imagine the dynamics that might emerge if Murdoch gains control of the Wall Street Journal.
Posted on May 4, 2007, Source: AlterNet
News outlets in the U.S. combine the totally proper condemnation of killing at home with a notably different affect toward the methodical killing abroad that is funded by the U.S. Treasury.
Posted on Apr 19, 2007, Source: AlterNet
The Pentagon's most likely next target is Iran; yet three presidential hopefuls say that no options should be taken off the table.
Posted on Apr 16, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Every year on April 4, as Americans commemorate MLK's death, we get perfunctory news reports that fail to account for the last several years of his life -- and for good reason.
Posted on Apr 4, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Awakening from a 40-year nap, an observer might wonder how much has changed since the last war that the United States stumbled over because it could not win.
Posted on Apr 2, 2007, Source: AlterNet
In an echo of Vietnam 40 years ago, the Iraq war continues while the antiwar movement loses its way among the ineffective posturing of Democratic leadership.
Posted on Mar 13, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Those who resist this war deserve our gratitude and our support. And our willingness to resist as well.
Posted on Feb 6, 2007, Source: AlterNet
We often hear that the Pentagon exists to defend our freedoms. But the Pentagon is moving against press freedom.
Posted on Jan 23, 2007, Source: AlterNet
We can blame Bush all we want -- and he does hold the reins right now -- but his main enablers these days are the fastidious public servants in Congress.
Posted on Jan 9, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Many can plausibly lay claim to stinky media performances, but only a few can win a P.U.-litzer.
Posted on Dec 26, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The problem with the U.S. war effort is not strategy and management, as the ISG will have us believe, but lies and slaughter.
Posted on Dec 18, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Rumor has it our world domination is in jeopardy. Can politicians take the ego-beating?
Posted on Dec 13, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The mainstream media that misled the public into the war with Iraq is now trumpeting so-called analysis about why we should stay, but their rhetoric is just another betrayal of journalistic responsibility.
Posted on Dec 6, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Powerful media institutions -- including the front page of the New York Times -- are feverishly spinning against a pullout of U.S. troops.
Posted on Nov 16, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Extracting the ugly facts on Donald Rumsfeld, the current U.S. defense secretary.
Posted on Nov 7, 2006, Source: AlterNet
It's reasonable to ask whether Friedman -- perhaps the richest journalist in the U.S. -- might be less evangelical for 'globalization' if he hadn't been so wealthy
Posted on Oct 31, 2006, Source: AlterNet
As the leading media advocate of 'free trade' and 'globalization, the New York Times columnist is expertly proficient at explaining the world to the world.
Posted on Oct 25, 2006, Source: AlterNet
How does the horrific estimated Iraqi death toll -- around 600,000 -- correlate with the U.S. media's evasive coverage of the war?
Posted on Oct 12, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The Bush administration will do its best to exploit North Korea's nuclear test, to stave off a loss of the Republican majority in Congress.
Posted on Oct 9, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Iraq is not a swamp; it's a place where real people live and die. They are not metaphors, and neither is their country.
Posted on Oct 3, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The more the media lies about Iraq, the more such fairy tales become machinery for the next war.
Posted on Sep 26, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Umpteen gigabytes can't make up for a media culture and a political environment largely out of touch with human empathy.
Posted on Sep 20, 2006, Source: AlterNet
American media's insulation about the 'war on terror' is dangerous.
Posted on Sep 8, 2006, Source: AlterNet
President Bush keeps demanding 'blank checks' for more time and more troops in Iraq -- and Congress keeps cutting them.
Posted on Sep 5, 2006, Source: AlterNet
A televised debate between president Bush and Iranian president Ahmadinejad will never happen -- but it's worth thinking about.
Posted on Aug 31, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Mainstream news reporting accepts and propagates the basic world view of the Bush administration.
Posted on Aug 24, 2006, Source: AlterNet
It's alarming that progressive groups like MoveOn.org are refusing to challenge the pro-Iraq war Hillary.
Posted on Aug 14, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The fact that Israel maintains a huge nuclear arsenal is supposed to be no cause for major concern.
Posted on Aug 7, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Richard Cohen, like so many other American pundits, depicts the death of an Israeli civilian as far more tragic than the death of an Arab civilian.
Posted on Jul 26, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The U.S. is helping to destroy Lebanon in its tacit support of Israel.
Posted on Jul 20, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The media talks about the 'barbaric' atrocities committed
to US soldiers -- but fails to emphasize the depth of cruelty the US miliary inflicts on others.
Posted on Jun 21, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Hillary Clinton should expect more and more boos, protests and difficulties as her pro-war reputation grows.
Posted on Jun 15, 2006, Source: AlterNet
I'm befuddled by Clinton's speaking engagement at tomorrow's Take Back America conference; she has stood against the progressive agenda for more than a decade.
Posted on Jun 12, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Former Iraqi prime minister Tariq Aziz had good reason to fear for his life if he ran afoul of Saddam Hussein.
Posted on Jun 6, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Standard journalism hasn't done much to put us in touch with the human costs of war.
Posted on May 30, 2006, Source: AlterNet
On this planet in 2006, no greater contrast exists than the gap between human hunger and military spending.
Posted on May 10, 2006, Source: AlterNet
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