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  • The Silence of the Bombs

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    Three years have passed since most Americans came to the conclusion that the Iraq war was a “mistake.” Reporting the results of a Gallup poll in June 2004, USA Today declared: “It is the first time since Vietnam that a majority of Americans has called a major deployment of U.S. forces a mistake.” And public…

  • Buying the War: Billl Moyers Journal

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    Buying the War, the 90 minute special debut of Bill Moyers Journal, examined media coverage of the Iraq War.  Norman Solomon was interviewed in the program.  A transcript and video of the entire program are online. . BILL MOYERS: It had now become unfashionable to dissent from the official line — Unfashionable and risky. BILL…

  • Making an Example of Ehren Watada

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    The people running the Iraq war are eager to make an example of Ehren Watada. They’ve convened a kangaroo court-martial. But the man on trial is setting a profound example of conscience — helping to undermine the war that the Pentagon’s top officials are so eager to protect. “The judge in the case against the…

  • Opening the Debate on Israel

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    The extended controversy over a paper by two professors, “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” is prying the lid off a debate that has been bottled up for decades. Routinely, the American news media have ignored or pilloried any strong criticism of Washington’s massive support for Israel. But the paper and an article based…

  • When War Crimes Are Impossible

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    Is President Bush guilty of war crimes? To even ask the question is to go far beyond the boundaries of mainstream U.S. media. A few weeks ago, when a class of seniors at Parsippany High School in New Jersey prepared for a mock trial to assess whether Bush has committed war crimes, a media tempest…