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Znet Article Solomon: At the Gates of San Quentin

Znet Article, December, 13 2005 Norman Solomon
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No buzzards were gliding overhead, but several helicopters circled, under black sky tinged blue. On the shore of a stunning bay at a placid moment, the state prepared to kill. Outside the gates of San Quentin, people gathered to protest the impen...

Znet Article Solomon: The Bogus Blurring of Terrorism and Insurgency in Iraq

Znet Article, December, 12 2005 Norman Solomon
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With public support for the Iraq war at low ebb, the White House is more eager than ever to conflate Iraq’s insurgency with terrorism.But last week, just after President Bush gave yet another speech repeatedly depicting the U.S. war effo...

Znet Article Solomon: Hidden in Plane Sight: U.S. Media Dodging Air War in Iraq

Znet Article, December, 07 2005 Norman Solomon
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The U.S. government is waging an air war in Iraq. “In recent months, the tempo of American bombing seems to have increased,” Seymour Hersh reported in the Dec. 5 edition of The New Yorker. “Most of the targets appear to be ...

Znet Article Solomon: Colin Powell: Still Craven After All These Years

Znet Article, November, 30 2005 Norman Solomon
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Newspapers across the United States and beyond told readers Wednesday about sensational new statements by a former top assistant to Colin Powell when he was secretary of state. After interviewing Lawrence Wilkerson, the Associated Press reported h...

Znet Article Solomon: Woodward Scandal

Znet Article, November, 27 2005 Norman Solomon
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Bob Woodward probably hoped that the long holiday weekend would break the momentum of an uproar that suddenly confronted him midway through November. But three days after Thanksgiving, on NBC's "Meet the Press," a question about the famed Washingt...

Znet Article Solomon: Thanksgiving and more Taking

Znet Article, November, 24 2005 Norman Solomon
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When Thanksgiving arrives, the media coverage is mostly predictable. Feature stories tell of turkeys and food drives for the needy. We hear about why some people, famous and unknown, say they feel thankful. And, of course, holiday advertising camp...

Znet Article Solomon: Getting Out of Iraq

Znet Article, November, 22 2005 Norman Solomon
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Thanksgiving week began with the New York Times noting that “all of Washington is consumed with debate over the direction of the war in Iraq.” The debate -- long overdue -- is a serious blow to the war makers in Washington, but the...

Znet Article Solomon: Axis of Hardliners, From Tehran to Washington

Znet Article, November, 06 2005 Norman Solomon
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The huge gap between Tehran and Washington has widened in recent months. Top officials of Iran and the United States are not even within shouting distance. The styles of rhetoric differ, but the messages in both directions are filled with hostilit...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Znet Article Solomon: Rage

Znet Article, August, 11 2005 Norman Solomon
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Mid-August 2005 may be remembered as a moment in U.S. history when the president could no longer get away with the media trick of solemnly patting death on its head. Unreality is a hallmark of media coverage for war. Yet -- most of all -- war is...

Znet Article Solomon: Big Star-Spangled Lies for War

Znet Article, August, 08 2005 Norman Solomon
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A lot of people want to believe that the current war on Iraq is some kind of aberration -- a radical departure from the previous baseline of U.S. foreign policy. That’s a comforting illusion. Yes, the current administration in Washington ...

Znet Article Solomon: The Incredible Blight of TV Punditry

Znet Article, August, 06 2005 Norman Solomon
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When super-pundit Robert Novak stormed off the set of a live CNN show Thursday -- just after uttering what the New York Times delicately calls "a profanity" -- it was an unusual episode of TV punditry. With rare exceptions, the slick commentators ...

Znet Article Solomon: In Praise of Kevin Benderman

Znet Article, July, 30 2005 Norman Solomon
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Conscience is not in the chain of command. “Before being sentenced to 15 months for refusing to return to Iraq with his Army unit, Sgt. Kevin Benderman told a military judge that he acted with his conscience, not out of a disregard for du...

Znet Article Solomon: Thomas Friedman, Liberal Sadist?

Znet Article, July, 28 2005 Norman Solomon
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The acclaimed New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has often voiced enthusiasm for violent destruction by the U.S. government. Hidden in plain sight, his glee about such carnage is worth pondering. Many people view Friedman as notably articul...

Znet Article 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...

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