Spin Shift on Bernie: Escalating Media Assault
For a long time, as he campaigned for president, a wide spectrum of establishment media insisted that Bernie Sanders…
The Indypendent
Norman Solomon
WikiLeaks: Demystifying “Diplomacy”
Compared to the kind of secret cables that WikiLeaks has just shared with the world, everyday public statements from…
No Exception: Blackwater USA Scandal Underscores the Horrors of the U.S. Occupation of Iraq
By Norman Solomon The Blackwater scandal has gotten plenty of media coverage, and it deserves a lot more. Taxpayer…
Deja-Vietnam: McCain’s Bizarre Baghdad Visit Repeats Past Mistakes
The media spectacle that John McCain made of himself in Baghdad on April 1 was yet another reprise of…
Playacting Diplomacy Again on Road To War
One of the nation’s leading pollsters, Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center, wrote recently that among Americans “there…