John,

In August 2023, World BEYOND War will be holding a weekly discussion each of four weeks of the brand new book War Made Invisible with the author Norman Solomon as part of a small group WBW book club limited to 18 participants. Norman will send each participant a signed hardcopy of the book. We'll let you know which parts of the book will be discussed each week along with the Zoom details to access the discussions.

When: For one hour on four Fridays, August 4, 11, 18, 25, 2023. The time is 23:00 UTC (similar to GMT). That is to say:

Friday at 1 p.m. in Honolulu, 4 p.m. in Los Angeles, 6 p.m. in Mexico City, 7 p.m. in New York.

Saturday at 7 a.m. in Beijing, 8 a.m. in Tokyo, 9 a.m. in Sydney, 11 a.m. in Auckland.

Where: Zoom (details to be shared upon registration)

This is a small group series with limited space of up to 18 people. Sign up to reserve your spot and allow for enough time to receive the book. We look forward to reading and discussing this important book with you!

About the Author:

Norman Solomon is Co-Founder and National Director of RootsAction.org. He also founded the Institute for Public Accuracy in 1997 and is its executive director. Immersed in anti-war, social justice and environmental movements since the late 1960s, he is the author of a dozen books including "War Made Easy" and "Made Love, Got War."

About the Book:

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

FROM THE ACCLAIMED VETERAN POLITICAL ANALYST, A SEARING NEW EXPOSÉ OF HOW THE AMERICAN MILITARY, WITH THE HELP OF THE MEDIA, CONCEALS ITS PERPETUAL WAR

More than twenty years ago, 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan set into motion a hugely consequential shift in America’s foreign policy: a perpetual state of war that is almost entirely invisible to the American public. War Made Invisible, by the journalist and political analyst Norman Solomon, exposes how this happened, and what its conse- quences are, from military and civilian casualties to drained resources at home.

From Iraq through Afghanistan and Syria and on to little-known deployments in a range of countries around the globe, the United States has been at perpetual war for at least the past two decades. Yet many of these forays remain off the radar of average Americans. Compliant journalists add to the smokescreen by providing nar- row coverage of military engagements and by repeating the military’s talking points. Meanwhile, the increased use of high technology, air power, and remote drones has put distance between soldiers and the civilians who die. Back at home, Solomon ar- gues, the cloak of invisibility masks massive Pentagon budgets that receive bipartisan approval even as policy makers struggle to fund the domestic agenda.

The book at The New Press.

Praise for Norman Solomon:

No one is better at exposing the dynamics of media and politics that keep starting and continuing wars. War Made Invisible will provide the fresh and profound clarity that our country desperately needs. —DANIEL ELLSBERG

Solomon is one of the sharpest media-watchers in the business. —BARBARA EHRENREICH

He fights the good fight without fear of consequence. He courts no favors. He writes responsibly and is meticulous on details, but he does not choke on false civility.—JONATHAN KOZOL

Solomon is a formidable thinker and activist.—LOS ANGELES TIMES

Praise for Solomon’s War Made Easy:

An engaging book that helps explain how the myth-making machine works.—THE TEXAS OBSERVER

Brutally persuasive . . . a must-read.—LOS ANGELES TIMES

Early Reviews of the Book:

"The role of government and media in concealing the consequences of war. With formidable clarity, Solomon, the executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy and author of War Made Easy, documents how the so-called war on terror has spawned an endless and secretive program of foreign interventions. The author is particularly eloquent in explaining how the media’s exclusive focus on past and potential “American suffering” in framing such activities has meant that “there [isn’t] much room to see or care about the suffering of others, even if—or especially if—it was caused by the United States.” Solomon points out that this pattern of selective moral attention accompanies a widespread ignorance of the actual policies being carried out by the American military and its numerous contractors. Particularly persuasive are the author’s illustrations of how media outlets have been coopted into producing what is essentially war propaganda and how journalists who seek to question the honesty of government officials are routinely silenced. Solomon makes a striking comparison between the American media’s strong interest in the losses endured by Ukrainian civilians after the recent Russian invasion and its indifference to the fate of Iraqi civilians after America’s invasion in 2003. As such, it should be no wonder how fantasies of an incorruptible national innocence—or what the author memorably dubs “the standard Manichean autopilot of American thought”—have been perpetuated. Solomon may have offered a somewhat deeper analysis of why American journalism fails to live up to its ideals in reporting on war and the reasons why political leaders might feel compelled to traffic in deception when addressing the public. Nonetheless, the author presents an incisive and provocative overview of the consequences of the media’s appalling failures in making important truths known. A powerful, necessary indictment of efforts to disguise the human toll of American foreign policy."

--Kirkus

Buying one ticket covers all four sessions plus the book.

If you really want time to receive and read the book, sign up for a book club in a future month now at https://worldbeyondwar.org/bookclubs

Thanks!

—World BEYOND War

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