Norman Solomon

  • By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon
    Almost all the primaries are behind us now, and the current outlook is still grim for the midterm elections this fall. The semi-fascist Republican Party is very well-positioned […]

  • By Norman Solomon
    The arrogance of power is especially ominous and despicable when a government leader risks huge numbers of lives in order to make a provocative move on the world’s geopolitical chessboard. N […]

  • By Norman Solomon / Truthout
    Mainstream media and politics routinely assume that the United States is a well-meaning global giant, striving to keep dangerous adversaries at bay. So, it was just another day at […]

  • By Norman Solomon
    Pundits are focused on Joe Biden’s tanking poll numbers, while progressives continue to be alarmed by his dismal job performance. Under the apt headline “President Biden Is Not Cutting the […]

  • By Norman Solomon
    I’ve just finished going through the more than 60 presidential statements, documents and communiques about the war in Ukraine that the White House has released and posted on its website s […]

  • By Norman Solomon
    New outcries for gun control have followed the horrible tragedies of mass shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo. “Evil came to that elementary school classroom in Texas, to that grocery store in N […]

  • By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon
    Three years ago, we helped write a report for RootsAction.org targeting 15 corporate Democrats in Congress who deserved to be “primaried.” We called the report “Bad Blues […]

  • By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon
    Sometimes one decision speaks volumes. And so it was when the Congressional Progressive Caucus — with 98 members in the House — recently chose to have its PAC endorse a […]

  • Norman Solomon wrote a new post 2 years ago

    By Norman Solomon
    Ever since Joe Biden ended his speech in Poland on Saturday night by making one of the most dangerous statements ever uttered by a U.S. president in the nuclear age, efforts to clean up after […]

  • Norman Solomon wrote a new post 2 years ago

    By Norman Solomon
    Russia’s war in Ukraine — like the USA’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq — should be understood as barbaric mass slaughter. For all their mutual hostility, the Kremlin and the White Hou […]

  • By Norman Solomon
    Fifty-nine years ago, Bob Dylan recorded “With God on Our Side.” You probably haven’t heard it on the radio for a very long time, if ever, but right now you could listen to it as his most […]

  • By Norman Solomon Hidden in plain sight, the extreme hypocrisy of the U.S. position on NATO and Ukraine cries out for journalistic coverage and open debate in the USA’s major media outlets. But those outlets, w […]

  • By Norman Solomon
         This article is adapted from the new edition of Norman Solomon’s book “Made Love, Got War,” being published next week as a free e-book.
    The final big legislative achievement of 2021 was […]

  • By Norman Solomon
    Top U.S. officials want us to believe that the Pentagon carefully spares civilian lives while making war overseas. The notion is pleasant. And with high-tech killing far from home, the […]

  • By Norman Solomon
    Nuclear weapons are at the pinnacle of what Martin Luther King Jr. called “the madness of militarism.” If you’d rather not think about them, that’s understandable. But such a coping strateg […]

  • By Norman Solomon and Jeff Cohen
    A few days after the Nov. 2 election, the New York Times published a vehement editorial calling for the Democratic Party to adopt “moderate” positions and avoid seeking “pr […]

  • THE NATION, November 1/8, 2021, issue
    By Daniel Ellsberg and Norman Solomon
    The single best option for reducing the risk of nuclear war is hidden in plain sight. News outlets don’t mention it. Pundits ig […]

  • By Norman Solomon
    It’s bad enough that mainstream news outlets routinely call the Pentagon budget a “defense” budget. But the fact that progressives in Congress and even many antiwar activists also do the s […]

  • By Norman Solomon
    Last weekend, U.S. corporate media continued a 20-year repetition compulsion to evade the central role of the USA in causing vast carnage and misery due to the so-called War on Terror. But […]

  • By Norman Solomon
    One of the many preposterous claims coming from supporters of the vicious new Texas law against abortion is that bounty hunters — standing to gain a $10,000 reward from the state — will […]

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