In the first half of this episode, Marcy Winograd shares a CODEPINK Congress program featuring John Kiriakou, former CIA torture whistleblower, and Zahra Billoo, executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations-San Francisco/Bay Area Chapter. During the second half of the program, Marcy speaks with Norman Solomon, author of War Made Invisible; How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine, a book published before October 7th. Solomon has updated the paperback edition to include Afterward: The Gaza War, a beat-by-beat account of how a negligent corporate media enabled President Biden's complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza.

Learn more:

"The Slide into Authoritarianism" by John Kiriakou. Consortium News.8/27/24https://consortiumnews.com/2024/08/27/john-kiriakou-the-slide-into-authoritarianism/
CODEPINK Congress: "Authoritarianism at Home and Abroad." Host Marcy Winograd. Guests John Kiriakou and Zahra Billoo. 9/3/24https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwVYn2WJy3k
US universities spent the summer strategizing to suppress student activism. Here is their plan by Carrie Zaremba. Mondoweiss. 9/2/2https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/u-s-universities-spent-the-summer-strategizing-to-suppress-student-activism-here-is-their-plan/
War Made Invisible; How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine by Norman Solomon, with Afterward: The Gaza War (paperback edition)
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/war-made-invisible-norman-solomon/1141772212;jsessionid=6A49181CF105503620265F1CA4BA4B9D.prodny_store02-atgap12?ean=9781620979167
"Holding the Press and White House Accountable. Solomon's Afterward on the Gaza War." Marcy Winograd's review.CODEPINK's blog: Pink Tank. Sept. 4, 2024https://www.codepink.org/solomonbookreview