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.
When the New York Times' editors warned of dire budget deficits, they failed to name the real reason: our 'war president.'
Posted on Sep 19, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The mainstream U.S. press is ill-suited to challenging the legitimacy of the Bush administration.
Posted on Sep 16, 2005, Source: AlterNet
How about Bush and Cheney too?
Posted on Sep 8, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The Bush Administration's policies continue to kill with impunity.
Posted on Sep 2, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Bring the National Guard home now, where they're needed.
Posted on Aug 31, 2005, Source: AlterNet
George W. Bush and his top aides seem to believe in red-white-and-blue violence with a fervor akin to religiosity.
Posted on Aug 24, 2005, Source: AlterNet
In a recent talk, author and media critic Norman Solomon laid out the many ways in which the media helps the government push our country into war.
Posted on Aug 23, 2005, Source: AlterNet
While President Bush anxiously awaits the end of his vacation, right-wing media assaults on Cindy Sheehan are just beginning.
Posted on Aug 18, 2005, Source: AlterNet
For the Americans still in Iraq, and for the Iraqis still caught in the crossfire of the occupation, the war’s consequences will stretch on for years if not decades.
Posted on Aug 16, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Cindy Sheehan is bursting Bush's attempt to ignore America's war dead.
Posted on Aug 10, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Robert Novak's outburst on CNN this week is one more sign of the decline of television journalism.
Posted on Aug 5, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The military’s pullout strategy for Iraq is double-barrelled: Keep killing in Iraq while hyping scenarios for withdrawal of U.S. troops.
Posted on Aug 1, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Conscience is not part of the military's chain of command.
Posted on Jul 29, 2005, Source: AlterNet
For more than 40 years, comparing an administration's enemies to Hitler has been a reliable way to convince a pliant media and unquestioning public to go to war.
Posted on Jul 27, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The president who lied his way into an invasion of Iraq is now exploiting Thursday's atrocities in London to justify U.S. policies that are bringing daily atrocities to Iraq.
Posted on Jul 8, 2005, Source: AlterNet
In the rush to praise Miller for going to jail, people forget her repeated push for war, and adherence to the government's version of stories.
Posted on Jul 7, 2005, Source: AlterNet
On the propaganda front, it's been another tough week for Washington's warmakers. But for them, where there's hope there's death.
Posted on Jul 1, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The ambient noise of American media evokes history -- distant or recent -- as an option we may choose to decline, like mustard on a burger.
Posted on Jun 24, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Iran's most repressive clerics and the USA's most militaristic neocons share a common interest: They're very eager to see the failure of Iranian activism for democracy and human rights.
Posted on Jun 17, 2005, Source: AlterNet
You wouldn't know it from the media focus on Deep Throat last week, but the lies that Richard Nixon told about the Watergate break-in were part of his standard duplicity for the Vietnam War.
Posted on Jun 10, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Whatever the circumstances, in the shadow of Vietnam, every subsequent U.S. war seemed to offer the opportunity to do it right, with less muss, less fuss, and more ease.
Posted on Jun 3, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Despite all the talk of war and remembrance, no time is more infused with insidious forgetting than the last days of May.
Posted on May 27, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The endless show that seems to fill America's every waking moment -- and many of its nightmares -- could be called "Media Jeopardy!"
Posted on May 23, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The merits of a Senate filibuster have everything to do with what kind of nation people want.
Posted on May 13, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Like an institution run by religious fanatics,
The New York Times still cannot let go of its corporate faith in the great god of nuclear power.
Posted on May 6, 2005, Source: AlterNet
We were being encouraged to celebrate Marla Ruzicka's life, her work and her message. But--in the context of a continuing war--what was her message?
Posted on Apr 29, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The papacy of Benedict XVI confronts journalists with a key question: How much critical scrutiny is appropriate when a religious leader gains enormous power?
Posted on Apr 22, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The recent decision by General Motors to pull its advertising from the
Los Angeles Times has not gone over very well.
Posted on Apr 18, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Media coverage over the fight to keep libraries open in Steinbeck's hometown is disturbingly sparse.
Posted on Apr 8, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The first quarter of 2005 brought significant media dividends for the Bush-Cheney limited liability corporation.
Posted on Apr 1, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The standard American media lexicon has steered clear of a word that would be an apt description of the Bush world view. Paranoid.
Posted on Mar 25, 2005, Source: AlterNet
In addition to building a strong movement against the war, U.S. activists need to also push hesitant progressive organizations that are taking the easy out by refusing to challenge the ongoing war.
Posted on Mar 18, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Why won't MoveOn "support our troops" by supporting a pullout of our troops from Iraq?
Posted on Mar 11, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The content of TV commercials is routinely corrosive if not toxic. And the programs being interrupted are, themselves, commonly junk that rots people's minds.
Posted on Mar 4, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Washington prefers to dress up Uncle Sam as some kind of star-spangled Santa Claus, but in the real world the resemblance is much closer to the Grim Reaper.
Posted on Feb 25, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The written words of George Seldes and Ben Bagdikian clearly mirrored their personal demeanor: principled and compassionate while living out a commitment to journalism on behalf of democracy and human rights.
Posted on Feb 22, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Notwithstanding the zany image of Alfred E. Neuman,
Mad magazine's grinning icon of absurdity has overseen plenty of sobering antidotes to the phony self-importance of major media.
Posted on Feb 10, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The media is telling us what the president wants us to hear – and ignoring historic echoes and basic contradictions.
Posted on Feb 3, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The evidence is overwhelming that the president and his policy team are quite willing to devalue – in fact, destroy – life when it gets in their way.
Posted on Jan 27, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Now – at the outset of Bush's second term – strong advocacy for immediate withdrawal should become part of the national debate.
Posted on Jan 21, 2005, Source: AlterNet
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