Author: Norman Solomon

  • Media Matters with Bob McChesney

    Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon were on Media Matters with Bob McChesney on January 11th. Play now: RealAudio archive Download: mp3 file

  • 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…

  • Announcing the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2008

    by Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon Now in their seventeenth year, the P.U.-litzer Prizes recognize some of the nation's stinkiest media performances. As the judges for these annual awards, we do our best to identify the most deserving recipients of this unwelcome plaudit. And now, the P.U.-litzers Prizes for 2008: Hot for Obama Prize –…

  • 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…

  • 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…