America is addicted to war. But its citizens rarely see the brutal realities of the U.S. military industrial complex up close. That is because our pliant media hides the carnage from the public, refusing to report on the victims of the war machine, and uses euphemisms like “surgical strikes” and “enhanced interrogation techniques” to mask the barbarity meted out by Washington around the world.
Our guest today has literally written the book on how the harsh realities of America’s global empire are blocked from our views. Norman Solomon is a journalist, activist and media critic who co-founded activism website RootsAction.Org. He is the author of the new book, “War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine.”
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Austrians call for neutrality in Ukraine in a march in Vienna, the country’s capital, on Sunday.
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Palestinian-Australian Journalist & Organizer Jennine Khalik asks the question: why would Australia’s renowned Sydney Festival seek out funding from the Israeli embassy?
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In an April 30 interview with “Behind The Headline,” MintPress News’ weekly TV show, Immortal Technique criticized Americans who justify the suffering and death caused by U.S. empire building.
“What needs to die is not people, but the mentality … of seeing yourself as moral while being able to do these things,” he told reporter Ali Salaam backstage before a show at The Observatory OC in Santa Ana, California.
“How can Obama even utter the … phrase ‘Black Lives Matter’ when obviously they don’t matter when you’re launching drone strikes in East Africa, when you’re launching drone strikes somewhere in Asia?”
Immortal Technique reserved his strongest criticism for “so-called liberals” and “so-called progressives” who support President Barack Obama’s drone killing program and U.S. involvement in the destabilization of Syria and other countries in the Middle East “not for the betterment of those people but for the benefit of our economic status.”
Civilians are are dying in rising numbers as a result of drone strikes, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. At least 17 civilians died last month in a single strike in Afghanistan.
“It says a lot about where we are as a nation and as a people -- we need to stand up more often and be able to confront these things,” he added.
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