Norman Solomon

Norman Solomon is the national director of RootsAction.org and the executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. He is the author of a dozen books including War Made Easy. His next book, War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine, will be published in June 2023 by The New Press.

Democrats in Congress Are Out of Touch With Constituents on Israeli Genocide

In sharp contrast, a national Quinnipiac Poll found that 77 percent of Democrats “think Israel is committing genocide.” That means…

1 week ago

The Trump-Mamdani Show Was Amazing. But Downsides for Progressives Could Turn Out to Be Steep

The danger of normalizing autocracy is heightened when the utterly serious appraisal of Trump as a fascist can be recast…

1 week ago

Victims Without Victimizers

It is time to stop trying to make the market do good. It is time to stop trying to fuse…

2 months ago

From Guernica to Gaza

Far from its victims, air power remains the height of modernity. And yet, as the monk Thomas Merton concluded in…

3 months ago

The Genocidal Partnership of Israel and the United States

Unimpeded, a daily process continues to exterminate more and more of the 2.1 million Palestinian people who remain in Gaza…

5 months ago

Bombing Iran Is Part of the USA’s Repetition Compulsion for War War War

Twenty years ago, one day in June 2005, I talked with an Iranian man who was selling underwear at the…

6 months ago

“No Kings Day” Was Historic. Now We Need a Powerful – and Independent – Movement Against Trump

But people can unite to lead so that leaders will follow, and justice can prevail. The imperative is to work…

6 months ago

How to Fight Trump Without Caving to Corporatists

That's where we are right now. So, in partnership with Progressive Democrats of America, RootsAction has launched a petition (which…

7 months ago

How U.S. Media Hide Truths About the Gaza War

As with the slaughter via bombardment, the Israeli-U.S. alliance treated the increasing onset of starvation, dehydration, and fatal disease as…

11 months ago

This Is Not a Drill. Fascism Is on the Ballot. But . . .

  The conclusion that Donald Trump is a fascist has gone mainstream, gaining wide publicity and affirmation in recent weeks.…

1 year ago