Norman Solomon

For Media Elites, War Criminal Henry Kissinger Was a Great Man

For U.S. mass media, Henry Kissinger’s quip that “power is the ultimate aphrodisiac” rang true. Influential reporters and pundits often…

2 years ago

The Carnage in Gaza Cries Out for Repudiation and Opposition. Maybe Poetry Can Help.

But numbers don’t get us very far in human terms. And news accounts have limited capacities to connect with real…

2 years ago

Israel’s Military Is Part of the U.S. War Machine

Days ago, In These Times reported that the Biden administration is seeking congressional permission “to unilaterally blanket-approve the future sale…

2 years ago

Elected Democrats Are Conformist Enablers of Biden for 2024

Democrats in Congress have ample reasons to be apprehensive about next year. But their silences and spin increasingly make them…

2 years ago

How 9/11 Bred a “War on Terror” from Hell

As the United States continued to drop bombs in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s daily briefings catapulted him into a…

2 years ago

How to Ignore 4.5 Million Deaths

How does our media environment so easily dismiss carnage of this scale? Norman Solomon’s new book, War Made Invisible: How…

2 years ago

Biden and Cluster Munitions: “In a Dark Time, the Eye Begins to See”

Today, with political fashion treating “diplomacy” as a dirty word, the resolute militarism of the U.S. government is bipartisan. While…

2 years ago

The Patriotism of Killing and Being Killed

But an important question remains unasked: Why are patriotism and war so intertwined in U.S. media and politics? 

2 years ago

The USA’s Systemic Racism Includes Its Wars

Twenty-first century lineups of global power and geopolitical agendas have propelled the United States into seemingly endless warfare in countries…

2 years ago

Israel’s Liberal Supporters Are Taking Their Denial to a New Level

Israel has evolved into a Jewish supremacist state.

3 years ago