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  • Mr. President, War Is Not Peace

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    Eloquence in Oslo cannot change the realities of war. As President Obama neared the close of his Nobel address, he called for “the continued expansion of our moral imagination.” Yet, his speech was tightly circumscribed by the policies that his oratory labored to justify. Lofty rationales easily tell us that warfare is striving for the…

  • Afghanistan on Counterspin and KPFA

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    Norman Solomon was interviewed on FAIR’s radio program Counterspin. Sunday Sedition – December 6, 2009 at 9:00am Click to listen (or download) A discussion of the Afghanistan war escalation with Aimee Allison on “The Morning Show” on KPFA Radio. The 20-minute conversation comes after nine minutes of news. The Morning Show – November 30, 2009…

  • The Hollow Politics of Escalation

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    An underlying conceit of the new spin about benchmarks and timetables for Afghanistan is the notion that pivotal events there can be choreographed from Washington. So, a day ahead of the president’s Tuesday night speech, The New York Times quoted an unnamed top administration official saying, “He wants to give a clear sense of both…

  • Afghanistan: Endless War

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    Listen to the October 14, 2009 talk by Norman Solomon on his trip to Afghanistan which aired on Alternative Radio

  • One year later: Unrest within the Obama base

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    On election night a year ago, celebrations across the North Bay included dancing in the streets. The voters had spoken — loudly — for Barack Obama, who won 74 percent of ballots in Sonoma County and 78 percent in Marin. Spirits were sky high, and so were expectations. That evening, as he spoke to the…