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  • Mr. President, War Is Not Peace

    Eloquence in Oslo cannot change the realities of war. As President Obama neared the close of his Nobel address, he called for "the continued expansion of our moral imagination." Yet, his speech was tightly circumscribed by the policies that his oratory labored to justify. Lofty rationales easily tell us that warfare is striving for the…

  • Norman Solomon on his trip to Afghanistan on KQED’s This Week in Northern California

    On the October 23rd This Week in Northern California

  • Uncle Sam in Afghanistan: Good Help Is Hard to Find

    Almost eight years after choosing Hamid Karzai to head the Afghan government, Uncle Sam would like to give him a pink slip. But it's not easy. And the grim fiasco of Afghanistan's last election is shadowing the next. Another display of electioneering and voting has been ordered up from Washington. But after a chemical mix…