Keynote: Norman Solomon

Nationally syndicated columnist, media critic, and author Norman Solomon cuts through the dense web of spin to probe and scrutinize the key “perception management” techniques that have played huge roles in the promotion of American wars in resent decades. He reveals striking similarities in the efforts of various administrations to justify and retain public support for war, which includes everything from demonizing the enemy and proclaiming the selflessness of American motives to disseminating inaccurate “facts” and the dispatching armies of well-briefed pundits to repeat them ceaselessly in the media and brand any opposition as unpatriotic and anti-American.