Norman Solomon: 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.”
Ten Years Ago and Today: A Warfare State of Mind
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Norman Solomon: The resulting tragedies have been so horrific and large-scale that the overall reporting by U.S. mass media scarcely provides a clue. In real time and in retrospect, the dominant cliches about this war have stayed in circular motion, self-referential, within American bubbles.
Norman Solomon: What Makes a Healthy Progressive Ecosystem
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Norman Solomon: Paul Wellstone talked about representing and fighting for what he called the democratic wing of the Democratic Party and I would like to fight for the progressive wing of our social movements in Congress.
Why I May Run for Congress
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Norman Solomon: Across the country, alarm is rising as corporate power escalates at the intersection of Wall Street and Pennsylvania Avenue.
No, Higher Consciousness Won’t Save Us
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Norman Solomon: When social movements seem to be no match for a destructive status quo, people are apt to look around for alternative strategies. One of the big ones involves pursuing individual transformations as keys to social change.
Unanimous Conformity in the Senate
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Norman Solomon: Every living senator voted Wednesday to approve Gen. David Petraeus as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan. Call it the unanimity of lemmings – except the senators and their families aren’t the ones who’ll keep plunging into the sea.
To the Tea Party: War and Liberty Aren’t Fellow Travelers
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Ivan Eland: The tea sippers extended their pinkies in a salute to torture, harsh policies toward Iran, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. They didn’t seem to mind the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping and vacuuming up of ordinary Americans’ phone calls either, according to Bovard. Yet of all the causes of big government in human history, warfare is the most important. The nation-state originally came into being because wars had become too expensive for mere kingdoms to handle.
War Politics: Numb and Number
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Norman Solomon: While the escalating disaster of war in Afghanistan keeps setting deadly blazes, the few anti-war voices on Capitol Hill usually sound like people whispering “Fire!”
Ridding America of Warmongers
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Sherwood Ross: Disgusted Americans who vote for politicians that talk peace yet, once elected, support wars, need to get active in between elections. Just voting every four years won’t hack it.
What Can Individuals Do to Oppose Warfare State?
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Since voting doesn’t bring the desired change in national policies, people wonder what they can do individually. The answer is quite a lot.
Winners and Losers in the American Warfare State
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After the long-suffering civilian population of Iraq, whose “crime” was having oil — a country that has been rendered virtually unlivable—the big losers are the American taxpayers who are bleeding income, jobs, and quality of life, not just sacrificing family members, on behalf of a runaway war machine.
LA Progressive: May 17 to May 23, 2009
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A Modest Plan for Paying College Costs. –Robert Reich Budget Baloney. –Adam Eran Local Police Report Makes the Case for Federal Enforcement of Immigration Laws. –Michele Waslin “Of Course (The CIA) Misled Congress. We Were Trained How.” –Charley James The Arlen Spectacle. –Robert Illes Los Angeles NAACP Life Achievement Award. –Anthony Asadullah Samad Obama Expands [...]
Obama Expands America’s Warfare State
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Although the U.S. is not in imminent danger of attack from any country, President Obama’s first budget further expands the Pentagon’s already dominant global operations. Not even the prospect of a $3.1 trillion combined budget deficit for this year and next deters him. Let them chop the budget for black colleges and police officer death [...]
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