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Norman Solomon Speaking at World Affairs Council -- Thursday, June 25
Submitted by Anna on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 20:09
Thursday, June 25 – 7:30 p.m., Spring Lake Village auditorium, 5555 Montgomery Dr., Santa Rosa.
From Sonoma County to Afghanistan: the Costs of War. Norman Soloman, syndicated columnist.
We often speak of “foreign policy” and “the economy,” but the separations between the two have narrowed — sometimes to the vanishing point. For instance, more than a year ago, the amount of money that taxpayers in Sonoma County have sent to the IRS for the Iraq war passed the $1 billion mark. Nationally, more than 40 percent of federal tax dollars go to military spending. What do such priorities mean for our communities, our country and the world?
Author Norman Solomon will address such questions with a focus on the relationships between U.S. military spending, overall foreign policy and the economic crisis at home. He’ll examine the impacts of military expenditures on social developments from Santa Rosa to Baghdad. And he’ll discuss the role of U.S. news media in framing issues and encouraging or limiting public discourse.
Norman Solomon is a nationally syndicated columnist. He has written a dozen books on media and public affairs, including “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death” (later made into a documentary film) and “Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America’s Warfare State”.
Executive director of the nonpartisan Institute for Public Accuracy, he is the recipient of the George Orwell Award, which honors distinguished contributions to honesty and clarity in public language. Solomon has written on war-related issues for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and many other newspapers. He was featured in Bill Moyers’ PBS documentary “Buying the War.”
Reservations not required. Members free, non-members $5.
