How the U.S. Makes Its Wars Invisible

Deconstructed

The Intercept

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🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The U.S. has been at constant war for the past two decades. Yet the public rarely sees the results of U.S. violence, or the bodies of Americans coming home. Norman Solomon, a journalist and antiwar activist, says that this is by design. This week on Deconstructed, Solomon joins Intercept writer and guest host Jon Schwarz. Solomon breaks down how American politicians, alongside mainstream media, spin lies and hide the true cost of American wars. Solomon is the author of “War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine.”

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0:00.0	I'm John Schwartz, a writer at the Intercept, filling in for Ryan Graham on this week's episode
0:08.1	of Deconstructed.
0:09.9	The FBI began surveilling Norman Solomon, who is our guest this week, when he was 14
0:14.8	years old.
0:15.8	He was growing up outside Washington, D.C. in Maryland, and joined the picketing of a
0:19.3	segregated apartment complex, which was apparently suspicious enough to bring him to the federal
0:24.2	government's attention.
0:25.7	He only found out about this, though, long afterwards, thanks to a freedom of information
0:29.3	act request.
0:30.3	Whether the FBI is still worried about Solomon is unknown, although if I were them, I certainly
0:35.0	would be.
0:36.0	He spent the last five and a half decades since he was 14, as a journalist and an anti-war
0:40.6	activist.
0:41.8	He's also the founder and president of the Institute for Public Accuracy, which is devoted
0:46.2	to getting alternative sources into the corporate media.
0:49.4	After the U.S. invasion of Iraq, he wrote the book War Made Easy, How Presidents and Pundits
0:54.4	Keep Spinning Us To Death, which showed the patterns in how U.S. governments have lied
0:58.6	us into war after war after war.
1:01.6	Most recently, he's written War Made Invisible, how America hides the human toll of its military
1:07.4	machine, which is about exactly that.
1:10.3	Norman Solomon, welcome to deconstructed.
1:12.3	Thanks a lot.
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