Author: Norman Solomon
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Under Amazon’s CIA Cloud: The Washington Post
News media should illuminate conflicts of interest, not embody them. But the owner of the Washington Post is now doing big business with the Central Intelligence Agency, while readers of the newspaper’s CIA coverage are left in the dark. The Post’s new owner, Jeff Bezos, is the founder and CEO of Amazon — which recently landed a $600 million…
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Norman Solomon: Press Freedoms Are Under Attack
Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar recently spoke with Solomon about press freedoms under attack in the US and UK and the changing nature of journalism. Bipasha Shom recorded this interview.
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Under the Global Shadow of Big Brother, Journalism Must Light Up the Political Sky
By Norman Solomon Every new revelation about the global reach of the National Security Agency underscores that the extremism of the surveillance state has reached gargantuan proportions. The Washington Post just reported that the NSA “is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world.” Documents provided by whistleblower…
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Overplaying Its Hand, Israel Still Holds Plenty of U.S. Cards
By Norman Solomon and Abba A. Solomon More than ever, Israel is isolated from world opinion and the squishy entity known as “the international community.” The Israeli government keeps condemning the Iran nuclear deal, by any rational standard a positive step away from the threat of catastrophic war. In the short run, the belligerent responses…
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JFK in Political Shades of Gray
By Norman Solomon Fifty years after the horrific day in Dallas, it’s hard to think of John F. Kennedy apart from an aura of political sainthood. But mythology is disorienting in the long run, and we can do better with realism. JFK brought youthful intelligence and evocations of soaring idealism to the Oval Office. But…