Join our Tuesday CODEPINK CONGRESS to talk with special guests about the US military complex and anti-war activism.\n
Chat with peacemakers and experts Tuesday\, June 20th at 5 pm PT/8 pm ET:
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Making War Invisible: In a searing indictment of the US war machine\, author Norman Solomon lays muc h of the blame for decades of carnage–from Iraq to Afghanistan to Yemen to Somalia–at the door of the media: ABC\, NBC\, CBS\, the cable news networ ks\, the New York Times and Washington Post-all stenographers for the Pent agon\, which has yet to pass an audit. Norman will share excerpts from his just released book\, “War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Tol l of Its Military Machine\,” and trace the roots of the Congressional Mili tary Media Complex to better understand how best to challenge the war mach ine.
\nMaking War Visible: Our second guest\, Matth ew Hoh\, Associate Director of the Eisenhower Media Network\, will share t he genesis and projects undertaken by this organization of former military \, intelligence and State Department officials to make war visible. The Ei senhower Media Network recently ran a full-page letter in the New York Tim es\, “Let the US Be a Force for Peace in the World” to call for urgent dip lomacy to resolve the Russia-Ukraine war. A disabled Iraq War Veteran\, H oh will share his personal journey from a member of the military to anti-w ar activism.
\nNorman Solomon is the national director of RootsAction.org and the executive di rector of the Institute for Public Accuracy. He is the author of many book s including his latest indictment of the military industrial media complex \, “War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military M achine” (The New Press\, June 2023). For 17 years Norman wrote the syndic ated weekly newspaper column “Media Beat\,” assessing the quality of mains tream journalism in the United States.
\nMatthew Hoh is the Associate Director of the Eisenhower Media Network\, an organizat ion of expert former military\, intelligence\, and civilian national secur ity officials who seek to reach broad\, cross-partisan audiences in divers e media outlets and among the American people – who increasingly sense tha t U.S. foreign policy today is not making them\, or the world\, safer. Mat thew is a former Afghanistan State Department officer\, 100% disabled Iraq War veteran and Senior Fellow Emeritus with the Center for International Policy.
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