Author: Norman Solomon
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News Media’s Love-Hate for Nuclear Weapons
Since the Soviet Union collapsed a decade and a half ago, nuclear weaponry has been mostly relegated to back pages and mental back burners in the United States. A big media uproar about nuclear weapons is apt to happen only when the man in the Oval Office has chosen to make an issue of them.…
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Norman Solomon on Counterspin
"The wars in Lebanon and Gaza rage on. As usual, civilians bear the brunt of the destruction, nowhere more so than in Lebanon, where reports suggest hundreds are dead and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes. Columnist Norman Solomon will join us to share his thoughts about the war we’re seeing—and not seeing—here." Listen…
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Applauding While Lebanon Burns
Syndicated columnist Richard Cohen declared in the Washington Post on Tuesday that an-eye-for-an-eye would be a hopelessly wimpy policy for the Israeli government. “Anyone who knows anything about the Middle East knows that proportionality is madness,” he wrote. “For Israel, a small country within reach, as we are finding out, of a missile launched from…
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The Most Dangerous Alliance in the World
After getting out of Lebanon, writer June Rugh told Reuters on Tuesday: "As an American, I’m embarrassed and ashamed. My administration is letting it happen [by giving] tacit permission for Israel to destroy a country." The news service quoted another American evacuee, Andrew Muha, who had been in southern Lebanon. He said: "It’s a travesty.…
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Their Barbarism, and Ours
The Baghdad bureau chief of the New York Times could not have been any clearer. “The story really takes us back into the 8th century, a truly barbaric world,” John Burns said. He was speaking Tuesday night on the PBS “NewsHour With Jim Lehrer,” describing what happened to two U.S. soldiers whose bodies had just…