U.S. Militarism, Media & the Democratic Party

Monday, April 4, 2022 - 1:00pm
CDT
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.

Long a critic of the media and a Bernie Sanders delegate in 2016 and 2020, Solomon speaks from experience of the corruption of our institutions. He is an associate of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) and founder of the Institute for Public Accuracy. He is co-founder and national coordinator of RootsAction.org which is dedicated to galvanizing people to defund our endless wars and promote economic fairness and justice.

UPCOMING TOURS

June 15, 2025 to June 25, 2025
Join us in an exciting visit to Cuba--a country committed to building socialism. We will learn about Cuba’s stunning accomplishments such as free health care and education, its collective production in agricultural and urban cooperatives, We will dialogue with leading thinkers about their visions... Read more
March 3, 2025 to March 7, 2025

We will depart from San Miguel early in the morning to Patzcuaro, where we will spend three days. We will visit the most important buildings and churches in Patzcuaro and also visit a number of nearby indigenous villages:

Upcoming Forums & Films

Monday, February 17, 2025 - 1:00pm
CST
Joe Belden
Location:
Join in person at the Hotel Quinta Loreto Community Room

Manifest destiny was the belief that westward expansion of the US from 13 Atlantic colonies to the Pacific was natural, predetermined, and even divinely ordained. But were Indians, Mexicans, and the buffalo just in the way? This lecture will briefly examine and discuss such events as our expulsion and removal of Indian tribes; the US... Read more

Monday, February 17, 2025 - 4:30pm
CST
Multi-Award-Winning Film Screening
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Location: Hotel Posada de la Aldea, Ancha de San Antonio #15, SMA

ABBA House, founded by Pastor Ignacio Ramirez and located in Celaya, Mexico, is a safe waystation for some of the tens of thousands of migrants who are fleeing violence, crime, climate change, sanctions and corruption in Central America. Now, due to Trump's freezing of USAID's indirect funding, the project is now in crisis and Padre Inacio's... Read more

Monday, March 3, 2025 - 1:00pm
CST
Omar S. Dahi
Location:
Join in person at the Hotel Quinta Loreto Community Room

Omar S. Dahi is Professor of Economics at Hampshire College and Founding Director of Security in Context, a research network on peace, conflict, and global affairs. He was born and raised in Syria and currently lives with his wife and two children in Amherst. Dahi has served as a lead expert on the United Nations Economic and Social... Read more

Monday, March 17, 2025 - 1:00pm
CST
Harry Targ
Location:
Join in person at the Hotel Quinta Loreto Community Room

Behind the turmoil of the Ukraine and Israeli wars, tensions between the United States and China, African contestation over neo-colonial political, economic, and military influence, and US meddling in the politics of Latin America, there are fundamental forces in play that seek to rearrange and change the architectures of global social... Read more