Talk: U.S. Militarism, Media & the Democratic Party [] Center for Global Justice
Event Category: All Events, Learning/Education, and Presentations/Discussions
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Monday, April 4, 20221:00pm CDT – 2:00pm EDT
Norman Solomon
Norman Solomon has produced a provocative film War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning us to Death. He has also published a book by the same title as well as Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America’s Warfare State. Solomon has been a leading critics of U.S. militarism. As the global super-power, the U.S. is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world, as Martin Luther King pointed out some years ago. Its militarism has fundamentally transformed our society. The media, rather than being the watchdog for the public, has become the handmaiden of the military industrial complex. And political parties, rather than being vehicles for the expression of the popular will, have become instruments for manipulation.
What we do The Center engages in local community support and outreach to promote and advance initiatives and movements toward social justice, grassroots empowerment and democracy, and environmental sustainability. It is also devoted to critical analysis of the processes and impacts of globalization, both local and international. The Center works to develop alternative socio-economic systems that conserve and share the world’s cultural, economic, and environmental resources for the benefit of humankind.
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