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By Norman Solomon  On the last night of August, the president used an Oval Office speech to boost a policy of perpetual war.  Hours later, the New York Times front page offered a credulous gloss for the end of “the seven-year American combat mission in Iraq.” The first sentence of the coverage described the speech…

[Letter and reply printed in current edition of CJR:] Whose Supplement? The Columbia Journalism Review deserves a notable Dart for ambiguity and nondisclosure in the magazine’s twelve-page supplement from The Commonwealth Fund titled “What Will Happen Under Health Reform — and What’s Next?” (CJR, May/June) A reference to CJR was in smallish type at the…

To listen to the new interview with Norman Solomon on FAIR's national radio program CounterSpin – about the current media blitz from Gen. David Petraeus – click here.

By Norman Solomon It’s already history. In mid-August 2010, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan launched a huge media campaign to prevent any substantial withdrawal of military forces the next summer. The morning after Gen. David Petraeus appeared in a Sunday interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” to promote the war effort, the New York Times…

It scarcely seems to matter whether the Gibbs statements this week were a calculated new version of triangulation or an uncalculated declaration of attitude. Either way, the Obama White House is proving itself to be tone deaf — and self-destructive — in its approach to major sectors of the Democratic Party base that are to…