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Guernica interviews Norman Solomon about War Made Easy.

Conscience is not in the chain of command.     "Before being sentenced to 15 months for refusing to return to Iraq with his Army unit, Sgt. Kevin Benderman told a military judge that he acted with his conscience, not out of a disregard for duty," the Associated Press reports. Benderman, a 40-year-old Army mechanic,…

Norman Solomon was interviewed in PR Week. Their review is below:

Norman Solomon was interviewed by Marty Moss-Coane on Monday, July 11 on Radio Times on WHYY-FM. Listen online (direct RealAudio link).

When the French government suggested a diplomatic initiative that might interfere with the White House agenda for war, the president responded by saying that the proposed scenario would “ratify terror.” The date was July 24, 1964, the president was Lyndon Johnson and the war was in Vietnam. Four decades later, the anti-terror rationale is not…