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  • Terrorism, “the War on Terror” and the Message of Carnage

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    When the French government suggested a diplomatic initiative that might interfere with the White House agenda for war, the president responded by saying that the proposed scenario would “ratify terror.” The date was July 24, 1964, the president was Lyndon Johnson and the war was in Vietnam. Four decades later, the anti-terror rationale is not…

  • “Withdrawal Would Cripple U.S. Credibility”

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    Obsession with seeming unequivocal and immovable has been frequent in the Oval Office. During the Vietnam War, such fixations were indifferent to the fact that the war was losing the U.S. government moral credibility around the world. But from the outset, Lyndon Johnson invoked credibility as an argument for staying the course. "If we are…

  • Media Matters

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    Norman Solomon was on Media Matters with Robert McChesney on July 3rd discussing War Made Easy. Audio is online (RealAudio and mp3).

  • Mourn on the Fourth of July

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    Am I the only U.S. citizen who finds the annual Fourth rituals to be cloying and deceptive? Yeah — just me and probably tens of millions of other people. Ever since the Vietnam War, the Fourth of July has seemed to be a celebration of the past in the midst of a distinctly un-glorious present.…

  • War Made Easy

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    In a review in the June 29th Los Angeles Times, Russ Baker calls War Made Easy "a must-read for those who would like greater context with their bitter morning coffee, or to arm themselves for the debates about Iraq that are still to come." The table of contents and first chapter of War Made Easy…