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Solomon: Wagging the Puppy
Znet Article, July, 26 2005
Norman Solomon
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Midway through this month, the Karl Rove scandal was dominating the national news -- until the sudden announcement of a Supreme Court nominee interrupted the accelerating momentum of the Rove story.Since then, some anti-Bush groups and progressive...
Solomon: George W. Strangelove and the Triumph of Nuclear Faith
Znet Article, July, 19 2005
Norman Solomon
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The silver-spooned cowboy in the Oval Office just presented a fine new saddle to the nuclear horseman of the apocalypse. It was a gift worthy of hell. “President Bush agreed yesterday to share civilian nuclear technology with India, rever...
Solomon: Rove/Blumenthal
Znet Article, July, 18 2005
Norman Solomon
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Sidney Blumenthal, a former assistant and senior advisor to President Clinton, takes on Norman Solomon of the Institute for Public Accuracy and author of "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death" on Iraq, the Democrats,...
Solomon: War and Venture Capitalism
Znet Article, July, 15 2005
Norman Solomon
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During the Vietnam War, one of the peace movement’s more sardonic slogans was: “War is good business. Invest your son.†In recent years, some eminent pundits and top government officials have become brazen about praising w...
Solomon: Terrorism, Òthe War on TerrorÓ and the Message of Carnage
Commentary, July, 09 2005
Norman Solomon
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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 Òratify terror.Ó The date was July 24, 1964, the president wa...
Solomon: Terrorism, “the War on Terror†and the Message of Carnage
Commentary, July, 09 2005
Norman Solomon
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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, ...
Solomon: War Made Easy: From Vietnam to Iraq
Commentary, July, 07 2005
Norman Solomon
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On February 27, 1968, I sat in a small room on Capitol Hill. Around a long table, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was in session, taking testimony from an administration official. Most of all, I remember a man with a push-broom moustache an...
Solomon: Withdrawal Would Cripple U.S. Credibility
Znet Article, July, 04 2005
Norman Solomon
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Obsession with seeming unequivocal and immovable has been frequent in the Oval Office. During the Vietnam War, such fixations were indifferent to the fact that the war was losing the U.S. government moral credibility around the world. But from the...
Solomon: Fourth of July
Znet Article, July, 02 2005
Norman Solomon
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Am I the only U.S. citizen who finds the annual Fourth rituals to be cloying and deceptive? Yeah -- just me and probably tens of millions of other people. Ever since the Vietnam War, the Fourth of July has seemed to be a celebration of the past i...
Solomon: Memo to Iraq War
Znet Article, July, 02 2005
Norman Solomon
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On the propaganda front, it’s been another tough week for Washington’s war makers. But for them, where there’s hope there’s death. Let’s address the Iraq war directly: It’s too soon to know whether...
Solomon: From Tehran to Washington, an Axis of Demagogues Just Got More Dangerous
Znet Article, June, 28 2005
Norman Solomon
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Ten days ago, in one of southern Tehran’s poor neighborhoods, I interviewed some voters in line to cast ballots for Iran’s next president. After a while, when an official at the polling station asked who I thought would win, I repe...
Solomon: Voluntary Amnesia in the Service of War
Znet Article, June, 23 2005
Norman Solomon
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Forget it! That seems to be an unstated motto for American media coverage of the Iranian presidential election. The axiom comes down to: “Don’t let history get in the way of spin.†Evasion smooths the way to the next war....
Solomon: Gains for Democracy Could Jolt Iran's Theocrats and America's Neocons
Znet Article, June, 23 2005
Norman Solomon
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Iran's most repressive clerics and the USA's most militaristic neocons share a common interest: They're very eager to see the failure of Iranian activism for democracy and human rights. On the surface, no outlook could be farther from Washington'...
Solomon: The Killing Street Memo
Znet Article, June, 18 2005
Norman Solomon
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While some Americans are exposing the deception for the latest war, others steadily lay the groundwork for the next one. Focus plenty of news reports on alienated youth in Iran, spotlighting despair that borders on nihilism. Meanwhile, give scant...
Solomon: Letter From Tehran: In Washington's Cross-Hairs
Commentary, June, 15 2005
Norman Solomon
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Letter From Tehran: In Washington's Cross-Hairs
Solomon: Impeachment Fever And Media Politics
Commentary, June, 10 2005
Norman Solomon
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If you think President Bush should be impeached, itÕs time to get serious.
Solomon: Lying for War
Znet Article, June, 06 2005
Norman Solomon
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You wouldn't know it from the recent media focus on Deep Throat, but the lies that Richard Nixon told about the Watergate break-in were part of his standard duplicity for the Vietnam War. It wasn't just that the Nixon administration engaged in sec...
Solomon: Nuclear Fundamentalism & Iran
Zmag Article, June, 01 2005
Norman Solomon
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Y ears from now, when historians look back at agenda-building for a missile attack on Iran, they should examine closely a story that took up the U.S.’s most coveted space for media spin—the upper right corn...
Solomon: The Silent Media Curse of Memorial Day
Znet Article, May, 26 2005
Norman Solomon
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Memorial Day weekend brings media rituals. Old Glory flutters on television and newsprint. Grave ceremonies and oratory pay homage to the fallen. Many officials and pundits speak of remembering the dead. But for all the talk of war and rememb...
Solomon: When Media Dogs DonÕt Bark
Commentary, May, 26 2005
Norman Solomon
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The recent decision by General Motors to pull its advertising from the Los Angeles Times has not gone over very well.
