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When the Washington Post revealed Friday afternoon that “the Biden administration in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of...
By refusing to cover a new U.S. shipment of vast quantities of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, TheNew York Times gave a boost to a process of normalizing...
Last week, Variety reported that “more than 1,000 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter" denouncing...
What filmmaker Jonathan Glazer said in scarcely one minute at the Oscars retains profound moral power that no distortions can hide.
When we condemn Hamas for its October 7 attacks in Israel, we’re not accused of anti-Arab bigotry. Nor should we be. Nothing could possibly justify...
The gist of the trick is to equate Israel with the Jewish religion—and then to equate opposition to Israel with antisemitism.
Days ago, when the United States cast the only vote in the U.N. Security Council against a resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza, it was yet another...
The electoral base that Biden is going to need for re-election is heavily against his support for Israel’s war on Gaza. There is no way to hide from...
What passes for debate on Capitol Hill is routinely an exercise in green-eyeshade discourse, assessing the most cost-effective outlays to facilitate...
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi is now straddling the thin line between vile demagoguery and pure idiocy. During a Sunday appearance on CNN, she smeared...
Like Congress as a whole, Pelosi refuses to acknowledge that so many Americans are protesting because the Israeli armed forces have been engaged in...
The New Hampshire primary has confirmed that the United States is on the way to a disastrous fall election. Unless a health crisis forces withdrawal...
Biden and Trump both won their party's respective primary in New Hampshire and now the stage is set for an election year unlike anything we've...
Zen wisdom tells us that the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. Yet it’s easy to fall into the illusion that when we see news about the...
What is most profoundly important about the war in Gaza—what actually happens to people being terrorized, massacred, maimed, and traumatized—has...
Have you heard the one about the U.S. government wanting a “rules-based international order”? It’s a grimly laughable premise, but the...
Have you heard the one about the U.S. government wanting a “rules-based international order”? It’s a grimly laughable premise, but the...
What US foreign policy shamelessly amounts to is this: 'We make the rules so we get to break the rules."
The vast majority of members of Congress have refused to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, even after three months of slaughter and destruction by...
The vast majority of members of Congress have refused to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, even after three months of slaughter and destruction by...
Members of Congress, now providing such easy rhetoric in public statements to justify huge and ongoing military support to Israel, would not be so...
The massacre in Uvalde took the lives of 19 children. For nearly three months, the ongoing massacre in Gaza has taken the lives of that many children...
Throughout his adult life, the whistleblower known mostly for leaking The Pentagon Papers was transfixed above all by the imperative of preventing...
One of the rare times that Noam Chomsky’s name has been mentioned on a big national NPR program came two months ago. On “Weekend Edition” in...
Over the decades and with few exceptions, in major U.S. media—notably unlike major media in most of the rest of the world—Chomsky has been persona...
Forty years ago, across a dozen pages of The Nation, I was in a debate with the English historian E.P. Thompson about the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms...
For U.S. mass media, Henry Kissinger’s quip that “power is the ultimate aphrodisiac” rang as an obvious truism. Influential reporters and...
For U.S. mass media, Henry Kissinger’s quip that “power is the ultimate aphrodisiac” rang true. Influential reporters and pundits often...
The professional love affairs between Kissinger and many U.S. journalists endured from the time he got a grip on power in 1969—and continue even in...
Over the weekend, Politico published the latest in a tidal wave of stories about President Biden’s dwindling prospects for re-election. Under the...
The outlook is now grimmer than ever, but the big divide between Biden’s low popularity and public support for the Democratic Party overall was...
Two centuries ago, Percy Shelley wrote that “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” Yet elite power has routinely vetoed their...
In times of such horror and despair, poetry can go far beyond where journalism fails.
The governments of Israel and the United States now appear to be in disagreement over how many Palestinian civilians it’s acceptable to kill. Last...
The horrific atrocities committed by Hamas on Oct. 7 have opened the door to protracted horrific atrocities by Israel with key assistance from the...
For the past three weeks, President Biden has played a key role in backing Israel’s worsening war crimes while touting himself as a compassionate...
His unconditional support for Israel's assault on Gaza makes Biden and the vast majority of Congress directly complicit with mass murder and...
Labels are central to the politics of media. And no label has been more powerful than “terrorist.” A single standard of language should...
U.S. media outlets dodge being evenhanded with the “terrorist” label—applying it to organized Palestinian killers of Israelis and not to...
When Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations spoke outside the Security Council on Sunday, he said: “This is Israel’s 9/11. This is Israel’s...
As in the aftermath of 9/11, official claims to be only fighting terrorism will continue to serve as PR smokescreens for a government terrorizing and...
Recent news reports have been filled with results of one poll after another after another showing that President Biden continues to weaken as a...
Recent news reports have been filled with results of one poll after another after another showing that President Biden continues to weaken as a...
With the start of presidential primaries just a few months away, the crux of the matter is that Democrats in Congress are opting for self-focused,...
When Joe Biden flew out of Hanoi on Sept. 11, he was leaving a country where U.S. warfare caused roughly 3.8 million Vietnamese deaths. But like every...
No matter how many lies it tells or how many people it kills, being the United States government means never having to say you’re sorry.
This article is adapted from the introduction to Norman Solomon's book "War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine."...