Category: Made Love, Got War

[This article is adapted from Norman Solomon’s new book “Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America’s Warfare State.”] We keep hearing that Iraq is not Vietnam. And surely any competent geographer would agree. But the United States is the United States — still a country run by leaders who brandish, celebrate and use the…

When the Soviet Union launched the world’s first artificial satellite on Oct. 4, 1957, American horizons darkened with self-reproach and fear. Sputnik was a shock to the system. "The fact that we have lost the race to launch the satellite means that we are losing the race to produce ballistic missiles," the influential columnist Walter…

[This is an excerpt from Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America’s Warfare State] A story could start almost anywhere. This one begins at a moment startled by a rocket. In the autumn of 1957, America was not at war … or at peace. The threat of nuclear annihilation shadowed every day, flickering with…

[This article is excerpted from Norman Solomon’s new book Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America’s Warfare State] Contempt for the empirical that can’t be readily jiggered or spun is evident at the top of the executive branch in Washington. The country is mired in a discourse that echoes the Scopes trial dramatized in…

The following essay is adapted from Norman Solomon’s new book,  Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America’s Warfare State When Martin Luther King Jr. publicly referred to “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government,” he had no way of knowing that his description would ring so true 40…