War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine - Couverture souple

Solomon, Norman

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1620979160 ISBN 13 : 9781620979167

Editeur : The New Press, 2024

Synopsis

With a new preface by the author on the Gaza war

An unflinching exposé of the hidden costs of American war-making written with "an immense and rare humanity" (Naomi Klein) by one of our premier political analysts

Every election cycle, candidates across the political spectrum repudiate what has become one of the most consequential and enduring components of American foreign policy: the forever war. Yet, once the ballots have been cast and the camera crews go home, the American war machine chugs along in almost complete obscurity.

The journalist and political analyst Norman Solomon's War Made Invisible is a "gripping and painful study" (Noam Chomsky) of the mechanisms behind our invisible, but perpetual, national state of war. From ever-compliant journalists serving as little more than stenographers for the Pentagon to futuristic military technology, horrifying in its destructive power, that makes dropping a bomb or pulling the trigger on a drone strike more of an abstraction than a moral calculation, Solomon's "staggeringly important intervention" (Naomi Klein) exposes the profoundly human consequences at home and abroad of the bipartisan commitment to war making.

In an era of increasing global instability in which it is all too easy to succumb to despair, Solomon pierces the "manufactured 'fog of war' . . . [and] casts sunlight, the best disinfectant, on the propaganda that fuels perpetual war" (Amy Goodman). Now in paperback with a new preface by the author on the Gaza war, Solomon's incisive, ever-timely analysis "provide[s] the fresh and profound clarity that our country desperately needs" (Daniel Ellsberg) now more than ever.

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À propos de l?auteur

Norman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His books include War Made Easy, Made Love, and Got War. He lives in the San Francisco area.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The New Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1620979160
• ISBN 13: 9781620979167
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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• Personne responsable: non disponible