Parallax Views w/ J.G. Michael War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine w/ Norman Solomon
On this edition of Parallax Views, longtime antiwar movement voice and peace activist Norman Solomon joins Parallax Views to discuss his book War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of It's Military Machine. We also debate/conversate about Ukraine and where things should go from here in regards to the Russian invasion, Ukraine's continued resistance, the question of diplomacy, and how the U.S. should be responding to it as well as how weapons manufacturers on both sides are the biggest victors of the invasion in terms of the weapons sales bonanza it has been for them.
Most of the conversation thought is devoted to the nature of the U.S. warfare state and how media has often been complicit in manufacturing consent for U.S. war and military adventurism abroad. Norman also talks about his background, the problem with embedded journalism and how it ends up turning journalists into mouthpieces for the U.S. war machine, the myths of broadcast media ending the war in Vietnam, the nature of propaganda and the use of language in selling and normalizing war and militarism, the War on Terror, Iraq, Afghanistan, drone warfare and the technologies of war, the connection between racism and military adventurism, and much, much more!