Articles by Norman Solomon
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When Students Are a Shock to the System
Norman Solomon | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
9 May 2024 – War Culture Hates the Ethical Passion of the Young in the Thrall of a Dominant Death Culture – The movement to stop Israel’s genocidal oppression of Palestinians is up against the entire murderous military-industrial-media-congressional complex.
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Full Speed Ahead on the Global Titanic
Norman Solomon | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
8 Feb 2024 – Going Along with the Utter Madness of Nuclear Weapons
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The Convenient Myth of “Humane” Wars
Norman Solomon | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
5 Jun 2023 – How the U.S. hides the human toll of its military machine.
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Norman Solomon | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
15 Jun 2023 – Nationalism masquerading as journalism covers war in darkness telling us for whom the bell tolls. When Russia invaded Ukraine, the U.S. media were all-hands-on-deck with empathetic, poignant reporting via TV, radio, print, and online outlets. But when U.S. missiles and bombs hit population centers over the previous two decades, the human tragedies rarely got anything more than short shrift in the U.S. media.
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The Wars We Don’t (Care to) See
David Barsamian and Norman Solomon | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Aggression Made Easy
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Daniel Ellsberg Has Foiled Those Who Want Him Confined to the Past
Norman Solomon | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
11 Apr 2023 – In just a few words — “those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future” — George Orwell summed up why narratives about history can be crucial.
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As War Keeps Poisoning Humanity, Organizing Continues to Be the Antidote
Norman Solomon | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
13 Sep 2021 – In the long run, peace activism is essential for overcoming militarism. And organizing is what makes that possible.
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Remembering Investigative Journalist Robert Parry
Norman Solomon – The Nation,
5 Feb 2018
What made Bob Parry a trailblazer for independent journalism also made him a bridge burner with the media establishment.
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Norman Solomon, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
From the Vietnam War era to today – from aerial bombing and torture to ecological disasters and financial scams moving billions of dollars into private pockets – the high-up secrecy hiding key realities from the public has done vast damage. No wonder economic and political elites despise WikiLeaks for its disclosures.
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Norman Solomon – Consortium News,
16 Jun 2014
As more and more secrecy envelopes the U.S. government – with millions of hidden records concealing both past and present – there is no practical alternative for democracy but to fight back with “unauthorized” disclosures, as Norman Solomon explains in an appeal for more whistleblowers.
→ read full articleWhy the Washington Post’s New Ties to the CIA Are So Ominous
Norman Solomon - Global Research,
27 Jan 2014
Washington Post refuses to face up to a conflict of interest involving Jeff Bezos — who’s now the sole owner of the newspaper at the same time he remains Amazon’s CEO and main stakeholder. The Post is supposed to expose CIA secrets. But Amazon is under contract to keep them. Amazon has a new $600 million “cloud” computing deal with the CIA.
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Norman Solomon - Global Research,
23 Dec 2013
News media should illuminate conflicts of interest, not embody them. But the owner of the Washington Post is now doing big business with the Central Intelligence Agency, while readers of the newspaper’s CIA coverage are left in the dark.
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Norman Solomon – Common Dreams,
7 Oct 2013
Despite all its claims of independence, the Oslo-based Nobel Committee is enmeshed in Norwegian politics. The global prestige of the Nobel Peace Prize has obscured the reality that its selection committee is chosen by leaders of Norway’s main political parties—and, as a member of NATO, Norway is deeply entangled in the military alliance.
→ read full articleThe Orwellian Warfare State of Carnage and Doublethink
Norman Solomon – Global Research,
22 Apr 2013
After the bombings that killed and maimed so horribly at the Boston Marathon, our country’s politics and mass media are awash in heartfelt compassion — and reflexive “doublethink,” which George Orwell described as willingness “to forget any fact that has become inconvenient.”
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Norman Solomon – Truthout,
6 Sep 2010
While now trumpeting the nobility of an Iraq war effort that he’d initially disparaged as “dumb,” Barack Obama is polishing a halo over the Afghanistan war, which he touts as very smart. In the process, the Oval Office speech declared that every US war – no matter how mendacious or horrific – is worthy of veneration.
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Norman Solomon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2010
Since the early 1940s, UC has managed the nation’s top laboratories for designing nuclear bombs. Today, California’s public university system is still immersed in the nuclear weapons business. Sixty-five years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945, the University of California imprimatur is an air freshener for the stench of preparations for global annihilation. Nuclear war planners have been pleased to exploit UC’s vast technical expertise and its image of high-minded academic purpose.
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