Author: Norman Solomon
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A Hundred Eyes for an Eye
Israelis and Arabs "feel that only force can assure justice," I. F. Stone noted soon after the Six-Day War in 1967. And he wrote, "A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements. The Others are always either less than human, and thus their interests may be ignored, or more than human and therefore so dangerous…
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The Silent Winter of Escalation
Sunday morning, before dawn, I read in the New York Times that “the Pentagon is planning to add more than 20,000 troops to Afghanistan” within the next 18 months — “raising American force levels to about 58,000″ in that country.” Then I scraped ice off a windshield and drove to the C-SPAN studios, where a…
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Norman Solomon on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal”
Update: Watch the segment For the first time, excerpts from the film “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death” — based on the book of the same name by Norman Solomon – aired on C-SPAN nationwide Sunday, December 7. Norman appeared as a guest on the “Washington Journal” program…
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The Ideology of No Ideology
On Friday, columnist David Brooks informed readers that Barack Obama’s picks "are not ideological." The incoming president’s key economic advisers "are moderate and thoughtful Democrats," while Hillary Clinton’s foreign-policy views "are hardheaded and pragmatic." On Saturday, the New York Times front page reported that the president-elect’s choices for secretaries of State and Treasury "suggest that…