Author: Norman Solomon

By Norman Solomon / FAIR.org For the New York Times news department, cluster munitions fall into two categories—clearly wrong or complexly controversial—depending on who uses them. There was no ambiguity when Russia apparently started using cluster weapons during the invasion of Ukraine. Five days after the invasion began, the Times (3/1/22) front-paged a story that described them in…

By Norman Solomon When Joe Biden flew out of Hanoi last week, he was leaving a country where U.S. warfare caused roughly 3.8 million Vietnamese deaths. But, like every other president since the Vietnam War, he gave no sign of remorse. In fact, Biden led up to his visit by presiding over a White House…

America’s Response to 9/11 in the Lens of History By Norman Solomon [Adapted from the introduction to Norman Solomon’s book War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine (The New Press, 2023).] The day after the U.S. government began routinely bombing faraway places, the lead editorial in the New York Times expressed some…

By Norman Solomon / The Hill August 30, 2023 As the anniversary of 9/11 approaches, candid public discourse about the “war on terror” is long overdue. Hindsight offers an opportunity to take a fresh look at the official pronouncements and unheeded dissent that came soon after September 11, 2001. The outlooks that prevailed at the…