Norman Solomon
Nuclear Power Madness
15 Mart 2011
There is no more techno-advanced country in the world than Japan. Nuclear power is not safe there, and it is not safe anywhere.
When "Good" Dictators Go Bad
17 Şubat 2011
It wasn't long ago that Hosni Mubarak's regime -- with all its repression and torture -- enjoyed high esteem and lavish praise in...
WikiLeaks: Demystifying "Diplomacy"
30 Kasım 2010
Compared to the kind of secret cables that WikiLeaks has just shared with the world, everyday public statements from government officials...
We Need a Green New Deal
7 Mayıs 2009
"How can we create a sustainable green future that includes economic equity and social justice?"
Why Are We Still at War?
3 Şubat 2009
Common Dreams 2 Feb 2009 The United States began its war in Afghanistan 88 months ago. "The war on terror" has no sunset clause.
The Ideology of No Ideology
27 Kasım 2008
Truthout 26 November 2008 On Friday, columnist David Brooks informed readers that Barack Obama's picks "are not ideological." The incoming president
The United States of Violence
19 Ekim 2007
We keep hearing that Iraq is not Vietnam. And surely any competent geographer would agree. But the United States is the United States —...
Political 'Science' and Truth of Consequences
2 Ekim 2007
Contempt for the empirical that can't be readily jiggered or spun is evident at the top of the executive branch in Washington. The country...
Thomas Friedman: Hooked On War
7 Eylül 2007
Reading his "Letter From Baghdad" column in the New York Times on Wednesday, you'd never know that Thomas Friedman has a history of...
Media Spin on Iraq: We're Leaving (Sort of)
27 Temmuz 2007
Last week, a media advisory from "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" announced a new series of interviews on the PBS show that will address...
Deadly Illusions, Rest in Peace
25 Mayıs 2007
This week's cave-in on Capitol Hill — supplying a huge new jolt of funds for the horrific war effort in Iraq — is surprising only to those...
Making an Example of Ehren Watada
7 Şubat 2007
The people running the Iraq war are eager to make an example of Ehren Watada. They've convened a kangaroo court-martial. But the man on...
The Headless Horseman of the Apocalypse
10 Ocak 2007
President Bush may be a headless horseman. But the biggest problem is what he rode in on.
Media Sham for Iraq War -- It's Happening Again
6 Aralık 2006
The lead-up to the invasion of Iraq has become notorious in the annals of American journalism. Even many reporters, editors and...
The Pundit Path for Death in Iraq
13 Ekim 2006
No one knows exactly how many Iraqi civilians have died from the war's violence since the invasion of their country. The new study from...
Media Tall Tales for the Next War
26 Eylül 2006
When the USA's biggest newsweekly devotes five pages to scoping out a U.S. air war against Iran, as Time did in the same issue, it's yet...
The Hollow Media Promise of Digital Technology
22 Eylül 2006
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,...
Spinning the Troop Levels in Iraq
6 Eylül 2006
This month began with 140,000 American troops in Iraq -- 13,000 more than in late July.
News Media's Love-Hate for Nuclear Weapons
7 Ağustos 2006
Since the Soviet Union collapsed a decade and a half ago, nuclear weaponry has been mostly relegated to back pages and mental back burners...
Their Barbarism, and Ours
22 Haziran 2006
The Baghdad bureau chief of the New York Times could not have been any clearer.
A Big Problem for Hillary Clinton: "Premature Triangulation"
16 Haziran 2006
Two years from now, Hillary Clinton might be pleased to hear the kind of boos and antiwar chants that greeted her days ago when she spoke...
The Urbanity of Evil
7 Haziran 2006
I've been thinking about Tariq Aziz a lot since the New York Times printed a front-page story on the former Iraqi deputy prime minister in...
Media Memorial Day
30 Mayıs 2006
People who are concerned about the state of the U.S. news media in 2006 might pause on Memorial Day to consider those who have lost their...
Corporate Media and Advocacy Journalism
17 Mayıs 2006
We see this kind of news story now and again. Sometimes we try to imagine the people behind the numbers, the human realities underneath the...
