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Znet Article Solomon: Acquitting Itself

Znet Article, November, 01 2005 Norman Solomon
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A lot of media outlets are now scrutinizing some of the lies told by the Bush administration before the invasion of Iraq. Yet the same news organizations are bypassing their own key roles in the marketing of those lies. A case in point is the New ...

Znet Article Solomon: Iraq Is Not Vietnam. But...

Znet Article, October, 26 2005 Norman Solomon
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Many politicians and pundits have told us that "Iraq is not Vietnam." Certainly, any competent geographer would agree. Substantively, the histories of Iraq and Vietnam are very different. And the dynamics of U.S. military intervention in the two...

Znet Article Solomon: What's Happening out of Camera Range?

Znet Article, October, 25 2005 Norman Solomon
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By now, millions of TV viewers have seen the video numerous times on television: Two police officers are beating a man on the pavement. It's big news -- because a camera was there. Robert Davis, a 64-year-old retired teacher, suffered injuries d...

Znet Article Solomon: Media at a Huge Crossroads, 25 Years After Reagan's Triumph

Znet Article, October, 24 2005 Norman Solomon
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By a twist of political fate, the Oct. 28 deadline for special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to take action on the Plamegate matter is exactly 25 years after the only debate of the presidential race between Ronald Reagan and incumbent Jimmy Carter. H...

Znet Article Solomon: Judith Miller, the Fourth Estate and the Warfare State

Znet Article, October, 20 2005 Norman Solomon
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More than any other New York Times reporter, Judith Miller took the lead with stories claiming that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Now, a few years later, she's facing heightened scrutiny in the aftermath of a pair of articles that appeared...

Commentary Solomon: Lamenting the Habitual

Commentary, October, 14 2005 Norman Solomon
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Dan Rather caused some ripples the other day when he lamented the state of U.S. news media. The former CBS anchor said "there is a climate of fear running through newsrooms stronger than he has ever seen in his more than four-decade career," accor...

Znet Article Solomon: Media and Dissent

Znet Article, September, 27 2005 Norman Solomon
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It’s reasonable to estimate that more than a quarter of a million people demonstrated against the Iraq war on Saturday in Washington, Los Angeles, San Francisco and other U.S. cities. The next day, the Washington Post front-paged a decent ...

Znet Article Solomon: Dodging the Costs of the Warfare State

Znet Article, September, 19 2005 Norman Solomon
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The New York Times began a new week with an editorial that typified the media mind-set of the warfare state.   The Sept. 19 editorial warned of dire consequences from a growing deficit that has been boosted by tax cuts -- in combination with â...

Znet Article Solomon: 9/11 and Manipulation of the USA

Znet Article, September, 14 2005 Norman Solomon
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Traveling from New York City in late September 2001, on a pre-scheduled book tour, author Joan Didion spoke with audiences in several cities on the West Coast. In the wake of 9/11, she later wrote, "these people to whom I was listening -- in San F...

Commentary Solomon: BushÕs Implicit Answer to Cindy SheehanÕs Question

Commentary, September, 07 2005 Norman Solomon
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President Bush has evaded Cindy SheehanÕs question, ÒWhat was the noble cause that my son died for?Ó But he provided a partial answer on the day that the New Orleans levees gave way.

Commentary Solomon: Bush’s Implicit Answer to Cindy Sheehan’s Question

Commentary, September, 07 2005 Norman Solomon
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President Bush has evaded Cindy Sheehan’s question, “What was the noble cause that my son died for?” But he provided a partial answer on the day that the New Orleans levees gave way.

Znet Article Solomon: Firing Michael Brown Is Not Enough

Znet Article, September, 06 2005 Norman Solomon
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Calls for firing Michael Brown are understandable. Aptly described as "the blithering idiot in charge of FEMA" by columnist Maureen Dowd a few days ago, he's an easy and appropriate target. President Bush met with Brown last Friday and publicly t...

Znet Article Solomon: Ending the Impunity of the Bush White House

Znet Article, September, 02 2005 Norman Solomon
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The man in the Oval Office is fond of condemning “killers.” But his administration continues to kill with impunity. “They can go into Iraq and do this and do that,” Martha Madden, former secretary of the Louisiana ...

Znet Article Solomon: The National Guard Belongs in New Orleans and Biloxi. Not Baghdad

Znet Article, August, 31 2005 Norman Solomon
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 The men and women of the National Guard shouldn’t be killing in Iraq.They should be helping in New Orleans and Biloxi.  The catastrophic hurricane was an act of God. But the U.S. war effort in Iraq is a continuing act of the president. A...

Znet Article Solomon: Triangulation for War

Znet Article, August, 29 2005 Norman Solomon
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Over the weekend, a spectrum of liberal responses to Cindy Sheehan came into sharper focus. The message is often anti-Bush... but not necessarily anti-war. Frank Rich spun out his particular style of triangulation in the New York Times. While de...

Znet Article Solomon: ReExploit 9/11?

Znet Article, August, 26 2005 Norman Solomon
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For a long time, the last refuge of scoundrels was “patriotism.” Now it’s “the war on terror.” President Bush and many of his vocal supporters aren’t content to wrap themselves in the flag. Itâ̈́...

Commentary Solomon: The Iraq War and MoveOn

Commentary, August, 19 2005 Norman Solomon
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The day after Wednesday night's nationwide vigils, the big headline at the top of the MoveOn.org home page said: "Support Cindy Sheehan." But MoveOn does not support Cindy Sheehan's call for swift withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.

Znet Article Solomon: Blaming Antiwar Messengers

Znet Article, August, 17 2005 Norman Solomon
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The surge of antiwar voices in U.S. media this month has coincided with new lows in public approval for what pollsters call President Bush’s “handling” of the Iraq war. After more than two years of a military occupation tha...

Znet Article Solomon: Someone Tell Frank Rich the War Is Not Over

Znet Article, August, 16 2005 Norman Solomon
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On Sunday, the New York Times published a piece by Frank Rich under the headline “Someone Tell the President the War Is Over.” The article was a flurry of well-placed jabs about the Bush administration’s lies and miscalcula...

Znet Article Solomon: Sheehan Bush and Dean

Znet Article, August, 13 2005 Norman Solomon
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In 1972, after many years of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg wrote: “In that time, I have seen it first as a problem; then as a stalemate; then as a crime.” That aptly describes three...

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