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Solomon: Time to Renounce the "War On Terror"

Zmag Article, May, 01 2013 Norman Solomon
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Thoughts on the Boston Marathon bombing and aftermath

Solomon: New Year, New Era for Progressives and Obama

Zmag Article, February, 01 2013 Norman Solomon
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the need for activists to step it up

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 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: When War Crimes Are Impossible

Zmag Article, May, 01 2006 Norman Solomon
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I s President Bush guilty of war crimes? To even ask the question is to go far beyond the boundaries of mainstream U.S. media. A few weeks ago when a class of seniors at Parsippany High School in N...

Solomon: Ted Koppel Joins NPR News

Zmag Article, March, 01 2006 Norman Solomon
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T ed Koppel will become a regular voice on National Public Radio. He recently ended 25 years with ABC’s show, “Nightline,” amid profuse media accolades. NPR has announced that Kop...

Solomon: Donald & Saddam

Zmag Article, January, 01 2006 Norman Solomon
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S addam Hussein has gone on trial, but questions remain unasked by mainstream U.S. journalists about Donald Rumsfeld’s 1983 meeting with Hussein in Baghdad on behalf of the Reagan administrat...

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: Making Peace With the War in Iraq?

Zmag Article, April, 01 2005 Norman Solomon
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S adly, two years after the invasion of Iraq, the online powerhouse MoveOn.org—which built most of its member base with a strong antiwar message—is not pushing for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. With a netw...

Solomon: The PU-litzer Prizes for 2004

Zmag Article, January, 01 2005 Norman Solomon
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T he PU-litzer Prizes were established a dozen years ago to provide special recognition for truly smelly media performances. Jeff Cohen, founder of the media watch group FAIR, and I sifted through a large volume of ent...

Solomon: Missing: A Media Focus on the Supreme Court

Zmag Article, November, 01 2004 Norman Solomon
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The big media themes about the 2004 presidential campaign have reveled in vague rhetoric and flimsy controversies. But little attention has focused on a matter of profound importance. Whoever wins the race for the White Ho...

Solomon: Country Joe

Zmag Article, June, 01 2004 Norman Solomon
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S ince the release of their first two albums in 1967— Electric Music for the Mind and Body along with I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die —many Country Joe and t...

Solomon: This War and Racism

Zmag Article, June, 01 2004 Norman Solomon
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A mong the millions of words that have appeared since late April about abuse and torture at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, one has been notably missing: racism. Overall, ...

Solomon: George Will’s Ethics: None of Our Business? and PU-Litzer Prizes for 2003

Zmag Article, February, 01 2004 Norman Solomon
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L ate December 2003 brought to light a pair of self-inflicted wounds to well known columnist George Will’s ethical pretensions. He broke an elementary rule of journalism—and then, w...

Solomon: Brand Loyalty and the Absence of Remorse

Zmag Article, December, 01 2003 Norman Solomon
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Midway through this month, a Wall Street Journal headline captured the flimflam spirit that infuses so much of what passes for mass communications these days: “Despite Slump, Studen...

Solomon: Media Tips for the Next Recall

Zmag Article, November, 01 2003 Norman Solomon
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Now that California’s electorate has rewarded a dramatic recall effort, it’s a good bet that political operatives in many states will try to learn from this fall’s Golden State extravaga...

Solomon: The Media, Gulf War II, & The FCC

Zmag Article, June, 01 2003 Norman Solomon
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A new poll tells us that—by a two-to-one margin—Americans “use clearly positive words in their descriptions of the president.” The Pew Research Center, releasing a nationwide survey on May...

Solomon: Not All White House Reporters Are Pushovers

Zmag Article, February, 01 2003 Norman Solomon
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A t 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., reporters usually shuffle along to a snoozy beat. The latest in a long line of presidential spinners, Ari Fleischer, began a news conference on January 6 with a nice gre...

Solomon: Long Day's Journey After Election Night

Zmag Article, December, 01 2002 Norman Solomon
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With Republicans gaining control of the Senate, few analysts doubt that 9-11 set the stage for George W. Bush to lead his party to victory. Midway through September 2001, in the national media vortex, a president ...

Solomon: Fending Off The Threat Of Peace

Zmag Article, September, 01 2002 Norman Solomon
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To fend off the threat of peace, determination is necessary. Elected officials and high-level appointees must work effectively with reporters and pundits. This is no time for the U.S. government to r...

Solomon: Nuclear Weapons, Media Fog

Zmag Article, July, 01 2002 Norman Solomon
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American media outlets roused themselves from outright denial in early June, spurred by belated warnings from top U.S. officials that a nuclear war between India and Pakistan would kill millions of p...

Solomon: MediaBeat

Zmag Article, June, 01 2002 Norman Solomon
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the faithful a September 11 photo taken as President Bush spoke on a phone aboard Air Force One. At the Democratic National Committee, rainmaker- in-chief Terry McAuliffe called the move “grotesque” ...