Category: Books
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War Made Easy on DVD
War Made Easy has gone into national home-video release. The DVD is also available online. Reviews of the War Made Easy documentary
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Book TV and audio online
Norman Solomon spoke about “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death” at a benefit for Global Exchange and Media Alliance at the Women’s Building in San Francisco. It was shown on C-SPAN 2 on Book TV. Alternet has posted the audio online as an MP3 that can be downloaded or…
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Big Star-Spangled Lies for War
A lot of people want to believe that the current war on Iraq is some kind of aberration — a radical departure from the previous baseline of U.S. foreign policy. That’s a comforting illusion. Yes, the current administration in Washington is notable for the extreme mendacity and calculated idiocy of its claims. But — decade…
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Radio… and a review
Norman Solomon was on KQED’s Forum and the Joy Cardin Show (audio is online for both). War Made Easy was reviewed by David Swanson.
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‘This Guy is a Modern-Day Hitler’
Evil that warrants the large-scale killing of war needs a face. But that face cannot belong to some amorphous mass of an enemy population; in fact, it’s a ritual for the president to offer assurances that civilians who may be caught in the crossfire are not among the Pentagon’s targets. The bull’s-eye must be painted…