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.
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
There is nothing less patriotic than lying to one's own country, especially when it comes to unnecessary wars.
Posted on Apr 20, 2006, Source: AlterNet
How long will MoveOn.org fail to oppose bombing Iran?
Posted on Apr 17, 2006
Israel's treatment of Palestine has amounted to methodical human rights violations. Yet criticism of those policies results in accusations of anti-Jewish bigotry.
Posted on Apr 13, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Why are the U.S. media unable to comprehend that the president may be guilty of war crimes?
Posted on Apr 4, 2006, Source: AlterNet
With the war less popular than ever, increasing numbers of war supporters are blaming the media for Iraq's bad news.
Posted on Mar 23, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The problem isn't that this war may not be winnable. The problem is that this war is wrong, and must be stopped.
Posted on Mar 20, 2006, Source: AlterNet
On the third anniversary of the Iraq invasion, don't forget the media spin that helped make this war possible.
Posted on Mar 16, 2006, Source: AlterNet
How do all our high-tech advances relate to the most important meanings of life?
Posted on Mar 7, 2006, Source: AlterNet
While audacious in its hypocrisy, the president's Gandhi PR gambit is in character for the world's only 'superpower.'
Posted on Feb 28, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Poor coverage of carnage is routine in U.S. news media when a war is underway and the deaths are caused by the government.
Posted on Feb 23, 2006, Source: AlterNet
When he finally spoke publicly about the shooting incident, Dick never used the word 'responsibility.'
Posted on Feb 16, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The current flurry of Western diplomacy will probably turn out to be groundwork for launching missiles at Iran.
Posted on Feb 6, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Like other politicians, Bush opposes most of what MLK stood for -- but he keeps praising King's name with false kindness.
Posted on Feb 2, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Journalists should be asking Bush hard questions about why he lied -- the way Oprah interrogated James Frey last week.
Posted on Jan 30, 2006, Source: AlterNet
In the wake of Plame, Bush is now putting the squeeze on leakers and journalists in the NSA domestic-spying case.
Posted on Jan 23, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Ted Koppel's new gig as an NPR news analyst brings back bad memories of his fawning support of Henry Kissinger.
Posted on Jan 16, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The man campaigning to be the country's next prime minister is smooth, media-savvy -- and dangerous.
Posted on Jan 6, 2006, Source: AlterNet
No one is in greater need of forthright new year's resolutions than America's major media outlets.
Posted on Jan 3, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Journalists should be paid to expose secrets -- not protect government interests.
Posted on Dec 29, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Before the invasion of Iraq, Bush used the NSA to spy on U.N. diplomats -- and it had nothing to do with fighting terrorism.
Posted on Dec 27, 2005, Source: AlterNet
In 2006, Bush will try to put any real or imagined reduction of U.S. troops in the spotlight, while the Pentagon uses massive air power in Iraq.
Posted on Dec 23, 2005, Source: AlterNet
From primetime slime to self-praise, these awards honor the stinkiest media performances of the year.
Posted on Dec 22, 2005, Source: AlterNet
At 12:38 a.m., Stanley Tookie Williams was dead, and the country was no safer.
Posted on Dec 13, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Contrary to what pundits still contend, Murtha sees the U.S. presence in Iraq as a boon, not an impediment, to terrorism.
Posted on Dec 12, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The media has barely mentioned Rumsfeld's key role in aiding the Iraqi tyrant.
Posted on Dec 8, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Mainstream news outlets haven't acknowledged that US military could end up killing more Iraqis when there are fewer Americans in Iraq.
Posted on Dec 6, 2005, Source: AlterNet
After so much evidence discrediting the U.S. war effort, Colin Powell still can't bring himself to admit his crucial role.
Posted on Nov 30, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Far from dying down over Thanksgiving, the scandal enveloping the
Washington Post reporter has deservedly picked up steam.
Posted on Nov 29, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Thanksgiving marks a time of appreciation. But media outlets only encourage us to buy -- and forget.
Posted on Nov 23, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The basic problem with the current U.S. war effort is that it still exists.
Posted on Nov 21, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Iran's hardliners are benefitting greatly from another set of true believers: the Bush Administration's neocons.
Posted on Nov 4, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Even as the media are bypassing their own key roles in the marketing of those lies.
Posted on Oct 31, 2005, Source: AlterNet
A media siege is underway at the White House and the Bush Administration is locked in a fundamentally defensive crouch.
Posted on Oct 28, 2005, Source: AlterNet
...The U.S. media have continually laid down flagstones on the path the military intervention.
Posted on Oct 25, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Back then, conservatives captured the White House. Today, an even more extreme incarnation is in charge.
Posted on Oct 23, 2005, Source: AlterNet
During the propaganda buildup for the invasion of Iraq, Judith Miller and the New York Times served as a key asset of the warfare state.
Posted on Oct 17, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Here's what the President really meant in his speech last week.
Posted on Oct 10, 2005, Source: AlterNet
What are we to make of the fact that the media considers torture controversial -- instead of clearly unjust?
Posted on Sep 29, 2005, Source: AlterNet
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