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.
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
Media disdain for lives on a downward spiral is most vehemently expressed by ignoring them; in the routine calculus of the newsroom, non-persons get non-coverage.
Posted on Jan 14, 2005, Source: AlterNet
With all the God talk, big media outlets create ongoing pressure for conformity.
Posted on Jan 7, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Vigorous journalism is essential to prevent further erosion of civil liberties and other fundamental rights.
Posted on Jan 4, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Media outlets seem to be weapons of mass distraction, trained on our brains.
Posted on Dec 28, 2004, Source: AlterNet
What's earthshaking in people's lives is often barely visible to the hype-hungry media eye.
Posted on Dec 10, 2004, Source: AlterNet
There are media awards of all kinds, but none so foul and smelly as these.
Posted on Dec 10, 2004, Source: AlterNet
America's winter of disremorse is not about nature, it's about a lack of nurture for what remains frozen.
Posted on Dec 3, 2004, Source: AlterNet
While Uncle Sam continues to maintain a nuclear arsenal capable of destroying life on Earth, the American finger-wagging at Iran is something righteous to behold.
Posted on Nov 29, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The U.S. media's highly selective use of the phrase "Iraqi forces" is symptomatic of the way that much of mainstream media defers to Washington's terminology.
Posted on Nov 19, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Americans are encouraged to assume that Allah may be great but the red-white-and-blue God is surely greater.
Posted on Nov 11, 2004, Source: AlterNet
TV studios and newsrooms tend to be far removed from the active idealism of the grassroots.
Posted on Nov 5, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Journalists of the United States have their work cut out for them. Are they up to the task of exposing truth even when that means challenging the powerful?
Posted on Nov 1, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Most people are less likely to feel let down because the Miss America pageant was pulled off the air; we're too busy sizing up our own presidential candidates.
Posted on Oct 22, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Four targeted areas are likely soft spots for the Bush Campaign's flying punches.
Posted on Oct 15, 2004, Source: AlterNet
After watching a debate, people have gotten a look at the core of a presidential campaign's artifice – the candidate himself.
Posted on Oct 8, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Four years ago, Al Gore carried Oregon by a razor-thin margin; the results may be just as close this time around.
Posted on Oct 5, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Little attention has focused on a matter of profound importance: The U.S. Supreme Court's three potential vacancies.
Posted on Sep 17, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Government officials who glorify other people's patriotic deaths are rarely eager to partake of such glory themselves.
Posted on Sep 10, 2004, Source: AlterNet
What remains to be seen is whether Rove's techniques will again prove successful when this country votes on Nov. 2.
Posted on Sep 3, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Someday, the news media may get around to re-examining the assumption that killing foreigners in their own country is the best patriotic credential imaginable.
Posted on Aug 27, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Major U.S. news outlets are hardly inclined to be up in arms about Rumsfeld's record of prewar deception when they remain so dainty about critiquing their own.
Posted on Aug 20, 2004, Source: AlterNet
A Woodstock reunion, scheduled for Aug. 20-22 in the town of Bethel, N.Y., comes while the gap between the nation's commander in chief and huge numbers of its citizens is enormous.
Posted on Aug 16, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Although U.S. media outlets have rarely dropped a hint along this line, Abu Ghraib was also about class and race.
Posted on Aug 6, 2004, Source: AlterNet
A heated panel discussion over convention coverage between TV's best-known news anchors reveals just why network news does such a lousy job of informing voters.
Posted on Aug 3, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Reactions to Arnold Schwarzenegger's 'girlie man' put-down of Democrats in the state legislature tell us a lot about how far the media have come.
Posted on Jul 23, 2004, Source: AlterNet
With scarcely 100 days to go until Election Day, the White House is desperate to wring every ounce of advantage from the American Flag.
Posted on Jul 18, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Why are the nation's leading newspapers frothing at their mouth over John Kerry's mildly populist message?
Posted on Jul 9, 2004, Source: AlterNet
A new gadget that helps people shape their dreams provides new frontiers for the media.
Posted on Jul 2, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The Green Party's momentous decision to endorse David Cobb and his 'safe states' strategy over Ralph Nader may usher in an era of a viable and sophisticated progressive movement.
Posted on Jun 28, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Our society continues to enjoy a wide range of freedoms. Yet elements of fascism can be introduced in America, especially in times of crisis.
Posted on Jun 25, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Fast talk substitutes for straight talk when trying to win an election -- whether your name is Bush, Kerry or Nader.
Posted on Jun 18, 2004, Source: AlterNet
If journalism is history's first draft, the death of Ronald Reagan has caused a step-up in the mass production of falsified history.
Posted on Jun 11, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Nader's presidential campaign has two trains running that will collide at an unfortunate intersection -- the Green Party's national convention in Milwaukee.
Posted on Jun 3, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Putting our trust in bogus alternatives can be dangerous for our bodies. And for the body politic.
Posted on May 28, 2004, Source: AlterNet
It seems notably ungrateful for the chairman of the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign to complain about national media -- after all they've done for this administration.
Posted on May 26, 2004, Source: AlterNet
We're witnessing an overall upsurge of some healthy introspection in American news media covering the Abu Ghraib scandal.
Posted on May 13, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The US press refuses to call a spade a spade with respect Abu Ghraib. But, those atrocities represent racism at its worst.
Posted on May 6, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The disconnect between democracy rhetoric and imperial reality is being largely papered over in news coverage.
Posted on Apr 29, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The Country Joe Band exemplifies how rock music can transcend itself as an art form.
Posted on Apr 26, 2004, Source: AlterNet
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