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  • War Politics: Numb and Number

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    Playwright Lillian Hellman said, “I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions.” The statement was in a letter to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). The year was 1952. We tell ourselves that the McCarthy era was vastly different than our own – but what about the political fashions of…

  • War Made Easy on DVD

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    War Made Easy has gone into national home-video release. The DVD is also available online. Reviews of the War Made Easy documentary

  • Backspin for War: The Convenience of Denial

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    The man who ran CNN’s news operation during the invasion of Iraq is now doing damage control in response to a new documentary’s evidence that he kowtowed to the Pentagon on behalf of the cable network. His current denial says a lot about how “liberal media” outlets remain deeply embedded in the mindsets of pro-military…

  • Let Us Now Praise an Infamous Woman — and Our Own Possibilities

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    The problem with letting history judge is that so many officials get away with murder in the meantime — while precious few choose to face protracted vilification for pursuing truth and peace.A grand total of two people in the entire Congress were able to resist a blood-drenched blank check for the Vietnam War. Standing alone…

  • “War Made Easy”

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    www.WarMadeEasyTheMovie.org Part of the documentary aired on Democracy Now the day after Memorial Day. That program is online. Norman Solomon’s next book, Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America’s Warfare State is now available.