September 11th, 2001 led to a new era of the American war machine, certainly in Afghanistan and Iraq, but also with military actions in at least 20 other countries since. As the years have passed, we seem to be less and less aware of ongoing and active US military actions. Why is that? And in the face of a propaganda machine that doesn’t bring this country’s war mongering into media consumption every day, what does it mean to build an anti-war movement? Our guest today is Norman Solomon, a journalist, media critic, activist and author of more than a dozen books. His latest book is called War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine.
FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $100 and receive a copy of War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine by Norman Solomon. From Iraq through Afghanistan and Syria and on to little-known deployments in a range of countries around the globe, the US has been at perpetual war for at least the past two decades. Yet many of these forays remain off the radar of average Americans. Necessary, timely, and unflinching, War Made Invisible is an eloquent call for counting the true costs of war, and challenging the cloak of invisibility that masks massive and constantly increasing Pentagon budgets, even as policy makers struggle to fund the domestic agenda.
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