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Solomon: Killing Them Softly
Commentary, April, 20 2007
Norman Solomon
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April is rapidly becoming the month of uncomfortable questions. The grotesque media feeding frenzy of angst that ensued over Don Imus says some mighty disquieting things about a society that for even one minute has to debate whether or not what h...
Solomon: The Martin Luther King You Don't See on TV
Commentary, April, 16 2007
Norman Solomon
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It's become a TV ritual: Every year on April 4, as Americans commemorate Martin Luther King's death, we get perfunctory network news reports about "the slain civil rights leader."
Solomon: Awful Truth About Hillary, Barack, John... and Whitewash
Commentary, April, 13 2007
Norman Solomon
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The Pentagon's most likely next target is Iran.
Solomon: The Pragmatism of Prolonged War
Commentary, March, 30 2007
Norman Solomon
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The days are getting longer, but the media shadows are no shorter as they cover the war in Iraq through American eyes, squinting in Washington's pallid sun.
Solomon: Making an Example of Ehren Watada
Zmag Article, March, 01 2007
Norman Solomon
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T he people running the Iraq war were eager to make an example of Ehren Watada at a court martial in February. But the man on trial set a profound example of conscience—helping to undermine t...
Solomon: The Headless Horseman of the Apocalypse
Commentary, February, 08 2007
Norman Solomon
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President Bush may be a headless horseman. But the biggest problem is what he rode in on.
Solomon: The P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2006
Zmag Article, February, 01 2007
Norman Solomon
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The P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2006
Solomon: Powell, Baker, Hamilton -- Thanks for Nothing
Commentary, January, 07 2007
Norman Solomon
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When Colin Powell endorsed the Iraq Study Group report during his Dec. 17 appearance on "Face the Nation," it was another curtain call for a tragic farce.
Solomon: Is the USA the Center of the World?
Commentary, December, 30 2006
Norman Solomon
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Some things don't seem to change. Five years after I wrote this column in the form of a news dispatch, it seems more relevant than ever:
Solomon: Media Sham for Iraq War -- It's Happening Again
Commentary, December, 19 2006
Norman Solomon
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The lead-up to the invasion of Iraq has become notorious in the annals of American journalism. Even many reporters, editors and commentators who fueled the drive to war in 2002 and early 2003 now acknowledge that major media routinely tossed real ...
Solomon: The New Media Offensive for the Iraq War
Commentary, December, 05 2006
Norman Solomon
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The American media establishment has launched a major offensive against the option of withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq.
Solomon: How I Was Wrong About Thomas Friedman
Commentary, November, 11 2006
Norman Solomon
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In late October my column was a parody of how Thomas Friedman writes about the global economy. Since then, IÕve learned that I was in error on a matter that shines some light on the worldview of the syndicated New York Times columnist and best-sel...
Solomon: Saddam's Unindicted Co-Conspirator: Donald Rumsfeld
Znet Article, November, 09 2006
Norman Solomon
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Saddam Hussein has received a death sentence for crimes he committed more than a year before Donald Rumsfeld shook his hand in Baghdad. Let's reach back into history and extract these facts:
Solomon: Channeling Thomas Friedman
Commentary, October, 30 2006
Norman Solomon
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Get ready for a special tour of a renowned outlook, conjured from the writings of syndicated New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. As the leading media advocate of Òfree tradeÓ and Òglobalization,Ó he is expertly proficient at explaining the w...
Solomon: Welcome to the Nuclear Club
Commentary, October, 16 2006
Norman Solomon
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Moments after hearing about North KoreaÕs nuclear test, I thought of Albert EinsteinÕs statement that Òthere is no secret and there is no defense; there is no possibility of control except through the aroused understanding and insistence of the pe...
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Welcome to the Nuclear Club
Commentary, October, 16 2006
Norman Solomon
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Moments after hearing about North Korea’s nuclear test, I thought of Albert Einstein’s statement that “there is no secret and there is no defense; there is no possibility of control except through the aroused understanding ...
Solomon: Iraq Is Not a Quagmire
Znet Article, October, 03 2006
Norman Solomon
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The uproar over Bob Woodward’s new book has intensified the media focus on a basic controversy that’s summed up this way: Is Iraq a quagmire? Like many other debates that flourish in American mass media, the standard answers on bo...
Solomon: Spinning the Troop Levels in Iraq
Commentary, October, 01 2006
Norman Solomon
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September began with 140,000 American troops in Iraq -- 13,000 more than in late July.
Solomon: Media Tall Tales for the Next War
Znet Article, September, 26 2006
Norman Solomon
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The Sept. 25 edition of Time magazine illustrates how the U.S. news media are gearing up for a military attack on Iran. The headline over the cover-story interview with Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is “A Date With a Dange...
Solomon: The Hollow Media Promise of Digital Technology
Znet Article, September, 21 2006
Norman Solomon
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This is the time of year when media campaigns for the latest digital products are apt to go into overdrive. Schools are back in session, and the holiday sales blitz is getting underway. For the latest computerized gizmos, that means an escalating ...
