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Norman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction and founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. He is the author of many books, including "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death." His latest book, "War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine," was published in June 2023 with a new afterword about the Gaza war in autumn 2024.

Jonathan Glazer accepts the Best International Feature Film award for "The Zone of Interest" at the 96th Annual Oscars held at Dolby Theatre on March 10, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Rich Polk/Variety via Getty Images)

Hollywood’s backlash to Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar speech only proves his point

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A man wails after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City, Gaza on October 09, 2023. Search and rescue works continue. (Belal Khaled/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

How Israel hides its atrocities in Gaza

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Joe Biden | Palestinians inspecting the destruction of Al-Farouq Mosque and other nearby houses caused by the Israeli bombardment, in the Shaboura camp of Rafah, Gaza, 22 February 2024. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Joe Biden’s moral collapse on Gaza could help Donald Trump win

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House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) arrive at an event recognizing the second anniversary of the January 6th riot in Washington, DC on January 6th, 2022. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Nancy Pelosi is desperately grasping at straws with new Russia smear

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Donald Trump and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Horror movie for progressives: Biden vs. Trump 2.0 is really happening

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Israeli soldiers stop an inspect identification for photojournalists Raneen Sawafta and Shatha Hanaysha covering the news as Israeli forces conduct raid operations throughout the city in Jenin, Occupied West Bank , Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times / Getty Images)

Why we’re not seeing the real Gaza war in the media

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Joe Biden and Antony Blinken (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Attack on Yemen exposes hypocrisy of Biden and Blinken’s “rules-based order”

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Palestinian female artist is seen drawing a picture titled 'GAZA 2024' on the concrete of the rubble of a destroyed building to draw attention to the losses and destruction caused due to Israeli attacks in Rafah, Gaza on January 01, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Most members of Congress have been moral failures on Gaza: Hold them to account

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The US american social critic Noam Chomsky (Uli Deck/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Noam Chomsky at 95: Still speaking hard truths, still ignored by mainstream media

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Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is seen at an award ceremony hold by U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter honoring him for his years of distinguished public service at the Pentagon in Washington D.C.,the United States, May 9, 2016. (Xinhua/Yin Bogu via Getty Images)

Henry Kissinger was the definition of elite impunity

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U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting about countering the flow of fentanyl into the United States, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House November 21, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

From denial to panic: Democratic despair grows over 2024 polls

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This picture taken on October 31, 2023 from a position near Sderot along the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel shows Israeli army soldiers standing on a hilltop facing the Palestinian territory amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. (Yuri CORTEZ / AFP) (Photo by YURI CORTEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Wordless in Gaza: When poetry can go where journalism can’t

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Pro-Palestinian protesters chant after they blocked the entrance at Bert 20 to delay the departure of Cape Orlando ship from the Port of Oakland in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. (Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)

A massacre by any other name: Israel’s military is part of the U.S. war machine

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US President Joe Biden is welcomed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) at the Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel on October 18, 2023. (GPO/ Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Joe Biden’s lethal trap: His embrace of Israel has become support for war crimes

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Palestinian emergency services and local citizens search for victims in buildings destroyed during Israeli air raids in Khan Yunis, Gaza, Oct. 24, 2023. (Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images)

Hamas, Israel and “terrorism”: If we have to use the label, at least let’s use it honestly

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Israeli tanks move near Gaza border as Israeli army deploys military vehicles around the Gaza Strip, Israel on October 12, 2023. (Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images)

“Israel’s 9/11” is a dangerous, bloody trap — just like America’s 9/11

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Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at a Hispanic Heritage Month event at Wilshire Ebell Theatre on September 15, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Hey, progressives: Don’t follow RFK Jr. down the rabbit hole — he’s just not that into you

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Joe Biden (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Elected Democrats are enabling Joe Biden — it’s time for the party to face reality

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Vietnam's President Vo Van Thuong and President Joe Biden during a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Sept. 11, 2023. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Joe Biden and Vietnam: American presidents can’t tell the truth about a tragic mistake

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The annual Tribute in Light is illuminated above the skyline of lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center and the Statue of Liberty, Sept. 10, 2023. (Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

A short history of America’s disaster: How 9/11 bred the endless war on terror

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Pro-Trump protesters gather in front of the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (Brent Stirton/Getty Images)

Trump fans are ready for political violence. Why are the backers of endless war so shocked?

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Artificial Intelligence Chatbot concept (Getty Images/Carol Yepes)

Artificial stupidity and me: If AI can do this to my book, what will it do in an actual war?

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An aerial photograph of Hiroshima, Japan, shortly after the "Little Boy" atomic bomb was dropped. Dated 1945 (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images)

Were the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings “nuclear tests”? The U.S. government said so

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First World War: soldiers of the English infantry in France, running out of their trenches at the signal to assault. Somme, France 1916. (Fototeca Gilardi/Getty Images)

“Soldiers Don’t Go Mad”: A stunning account of poetry, paradox and the horrors of war

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