AlterNet.org: Norman Solomon

Norman Solomon: Obama's Triumph Over Media Frivolity

Norman Solomon — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:00:01 PDT

Obama's Tuesday win represents a victory over a press corps fixated on fluff over substance.

Norman Solomon: Let's Party Like Itâ€™s 1932

Norman Solomon — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:00:01 PDT

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.

Norman Solomon: NPR: National Pentagon Radio?

Norman Solomon — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:00:01 PDT

When even public radio parrots the military's official line on the war in Iraq, what hope is there for unbiased, quality reporting?

Norman Solomon: Warfare and Health Care

Norman Solomon — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:00:01 PDT

Here's an obvious solution to the health care crisis: why not cut the Pentagon's massive budget to fund health care for all?

Norman Solomon: The Iraq War Is Wrong. Why Can't Candidates Admit It?

Norman Solomon — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:00:01 PST

The only way for Democrats to challenge U.S. militarism is to condemn the Iraq war as inherently immoral.

Norman Solomon: What We Learn from Mourning those We Love

Norman Solomon — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:00:01 PST

Our own mourning should help us understand and strive to prevent the unspeakable pain of others.

Norman Solomon: Edwards Reconsidered

Norman Solomon — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:00:01 PST

Why Edwards was the most improved presidential candidate of 2007.

Norman Solomon: Channeling Suze Orman

Norman Solomon — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:00:01 PST

Sometimes it helps to get some advice on messaging from a pro.

Norman Solomon: Announcing the 2007 P.U.-litzer Prizes

Norman Solomon — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:00:01 PST

The year's stinkiest media performances.

Norman Solomon: The Mad Corporate World of Glenn Beck

Norman Solomon — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:00:01 PST

Glenn Beck has a selective enthusiasm for the issue of "full disclosure."

Norman Solomon: The USA's Human Rights Daze

Norman Solomon — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:00:01 PST

Human rights day passed by with barely any notice -- but we would all do well to understand the meaning of human rights.

Norman Solomon: How the Media Fuel Class Warfare

Norman Solomon — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:00:01 PST

Media outlets aren't just giving short shrift to organized labor. The avoidance extends to unorganized labor, too.

Norman Solomon: The Pro-War Undertow of the Blackwater Scandal

Norman Solomon — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:00:01 PDT

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.

Norman Solomon: Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State

Norman Solomon — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:00:01 PDT

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.

Norman Solomon: Here's the Smell of Blood Still

Norman Solomon — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:00:01 PDT

As the autumn of 2007 begins, the reality of Uncle Sam as an unhinged mega-killer haunts a large minority of Americans.

Norman Solomon: Six Years of 9/11 as a License to Kill

Norman Solomon — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:00:01 PDT

Thanks to the military-industrial -media complex, Americans view humanity through red-white -and-blue windows on the world.

Norman Solomon: Hooked on War: Thomas Friedman's Deadly Addiction

Norman Solomon — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:00:01 PDT

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."

Norman Solomon: Let's Face It: The Warfare State Is Part of Us

Norman Solomon — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:00:01 PDT

The warfare state didn't suddenly arrive in 2001, and it won't disappear when the current lunatic in the Oval Office moves on.

Norman Solomon: Backspin for War: CNN Guilty of Caving to the Pentagon?

Norman Solomon — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:00:01 PDT

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?

Norman Solomon: Let Us Now Praise an Infamous Woman -- and Our Own Possibilities

Norman Solomon — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:00:01 PDT

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.

Norman Solomon: Media Blitz for War: The Big Guns of August

Norman Solomon — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:00:01 PDT

This week, the U.S. media establishment is mainlining another fix for the Iraq war: It isn't so bad after all.

Norman Solomon: Media Spin on Iraq: Weâ€™re Leaving (Sort of)

Norman Solomon — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:00:01 PDT

Despite all the talk about how members of Congress have been turning against the war, few are clearly advocating a genuine end to U.S. military intervention in Iraq. We would be foolish to believe those tall tales.

Norman Solomon: Media Corrections Weâ€™d Like to See

Norman Solomon — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:00:01 PDT

One aspect of news media that needs a different paradigm is the correction ritual. Newspapers are sometimes willing to acknowledge faulty reporting, but the "correction box" is routinely inadequate.

Norman Solomon: From the Grave, a Senator Exposes Bloody Hands on Capitol Hill

Norman Solomon — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:00:01 PDT

Listening to a video clip of the late Senator Morse speaking in the 1960s exposes the big media lie that members of Congress are doing all they can to impose a schedule for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.

Norman Solomon: A Bloody Media Mirror

Norman Solomon — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:00:01 PDT

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.