Author: Norman Solomon
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Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America’s Warfare State
A column on Norman Solomon and an interview. A December 6th interview on KOPN. On Counterspin. He was interviewed on Forum on KQED. He was on Democracy Now on Wednesday, October 3rd. Audio and video are online. An excerpt in Guernica. A review.
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Six Years of 9/11 as a License to Kill
It evokes a tragedy that marks an epoch. From the outset, the warfare state has exploited “9/11,” a label at once too facile and too laden with historic weight — giving further power to the tacit political axiom that perception is reality. Often it seems that media coverage is all about perception, especially when the…
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Your Call Media Roundtable
Norman Solomon was on the Your Call Radio Media Round Table with Danny Schechter on Friday, September 7th. Audio is online.
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Let’s Face It: The Warfare State Is Part of Us
The USA’s military spending is now close to $2 billion a day. This fall, the country will begin its seventh year of continuous war, with no end in sight. On the horizon is the very real threat of a massive air assault on Iran. And few in Congress seem willing or able to articulate a…
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Backspin for War: The Convenience of Denial
The man who ran CNN’s news operation during the invasion of Iraq is now doing damage control in response to a new documentary’s evidence that he kowtowed to the Pentagon on behalf of the cable network. His current denial says a lot about how “liberal media” outlets remain deeply embedded in the mindsets of pro-military…