Articles by Norman Solomon
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“There is a time when silence is a lie, when silence is complicity, and when silence betrays our troops, our country, and ourselves. We owe it to our troops, as well as to other...
Norman Solomon · 2,729 views
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If you want a more progressive Democratic Party, the California governor ain't it.
Norman Solomon · 2,473 views
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The Democratic establishment shuns the progressive populism that’s vital to effectively counter bogus right-wing populism. And so, the fight to defeat the fascistic GOP and the fight to...
Norman Solomon · 592 views
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Saving the country from autocracy requires recognizing—and then overcoming—the chokehold that Democratic leaders have on the party.
Norman Solomon · 1,056 views
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The political issue of complicity with genocide will not go away. And that's a good thing.
Norman Solomon · 218 views
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"It was a journey into an alternative universe of political guile from a president who just six days earlier had approved sending $20 billion worth of more weapons to Israel. Yet the...
Norman Solomon · 911 views
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Last week, Variety reported that “more than 1,000 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s ‘The Zone of Interest’...
Norman Solomon · 1,557 views
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More than being a time of hope—or fatalism—the inauguration of President Joe Biden should be a time of skeptical realism and determination.
Norman Solomon · 2,253 views
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In these important battles we wage, we will often lose—but we must not give up.
Norman Solomon · 2,180 views
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The corporate establishment has not yet figured out how to defeat Bernie Sanders in the primary, but the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana appears dead set on damaging the progressive...
Norman Solomon · 3,035 views
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No matter how intense the top-down pressure gets from Speaker Pelosi and Steny Hoyer, we should insist from the bottom up that members of Congress stand their ground for progressive...
Norman Solomon · 1,559 views
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“Certainly there are some people in the Democratic Party who want to maintain the status quo. They would rather go down with the Titanic so long as they have first-class seats.”
Norman Solomon · 25,737 views
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"The latest U.S. air attack on Russia’s close ally Syria was as much politically aimed at Moscow as at Damascus."
Norman Solomon · 3,840 views
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It’s routine for right-wing outlets like Fox to smear progressive activists under the guise of “news” coverage. But why the New York Times? And why the special venom for Bernie Sanders?
Norman Solomon · 30,918 views
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National Democrats have used hyperbolic Russia-bashing to shield themselves from blame for Hillary Clinton’s defeat and to block progressives from pulling the party away from Wall...
Norman Solomon · 2,334 views
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This week began with a mass email from the head of the Democratic National Committee, who declared: “By now, Americans know beyond any reasonable doubt that the Russian government...
Norman Solomon · 10,947 views
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We still don’t have any sort of apology or retraction from the Washington Post for promoting “The List” -- the highly dangerous blacklist that got a huge boost from the newspaper’s...
Norman Solomon · 1,725 views
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There’s something profoundly despicable about a Justice Department that would brazenly violate the First and Fourth Amendments while spying on journalists, then claim to be reassessing...
Norman Solomon · 1,013 views
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Now that public pressure has foiled U.S. plans to bomb Syria, the next urgent step is to build public pressure for stopping the deluge of weapons into that country.
Norman Solomon · 1,774 views
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Grassroots pressure has forced President Obama to seek approval from Congress for an attack on Syria. But Obama is hell-bent on ordering a missile assault on that country, and he has two...
Norman Solomon · 1,865 views
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Dear President Obama:
Norman Solomon · 3,130 views
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In London, government authority has just fired a new shot at freedom of the press.
Norman Solomon · 2,511 views
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Rarely has any American provoked such fury in Washington’s high places. So far, Edward Snowden has outsmarted the smartest guys in the echo chamber—and he has proceeded with the kind of...
Norman Solomon · 3,135 views
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As a perpetual emotion machine -- producing and guzzling its own political fuel -- the “war on terror” continues to normalize itself as a thoroughly American way of life and death...
Norman Solomon · 4,993 views
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After the bombings that killed and maimed so horribly at the Boston Marathon, our country’s politics and mass media are awash in heartfelt compassion -- and reflexive “doublethink,”...
Norman Solomon · 3,899 views
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Dear Progressives,
Norman Solomon · 2,258 views
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