Season 3, Episode 5: Norman Solomon, War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine

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Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and political and media analyst Norman Solomon as they discuss Solomon’s important new book, War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine. 

Listen in as Solomon and Sachs explore the intricate interplay between the mainstream media and powerful political forces that promote America’s disastrous “wars of choice” – including the US-led wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and currently the US-Russia proxy war in Ukraine and the US backing of Israel’s war in Gaza.   

Solomon’s book explores how American foreign policy has become one of perpetual war, and how the media systematically hide the tragic human and political consequences of these wars, thereby enabling the US Government to perpetuate these conflicts.

Footnotes:

• Ukraine War
• 2023 Israel-Hamas War
• Vietnam War
• MLK - madness of militarism
• Pseudo-democracy
• Propaganda
• Orwellian
• Political Geology of 1984
• Rules-based Order 
• NATO
• Military-industrial Complex
• Ethnic Cleansing
• NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia
• Genocide
• Rashida Tlaib
• South Africa’s Genocide Case Against Israel at the ICJ
• Common Dreams
• War in Yemen
• Pentagon Papers
• War Profiteering
• Information Warfare - Censorship
• Pentagon Woos Silicon Valley to Join Ranks of Arms Makers

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