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.

From Guernica to Gaza

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

2 weeks 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…

2 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…

3 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…

3 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…

4 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…

8 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.…

11 months ago

Time for a United Front Against Trump and Realism About Harris

 “The harms of the other options” mean that the best course of action is to vote for Harris, 25 Islamic…

11 months ago

“Escalation Dominance” . . . and the Prospect of More Than 1,000 Holocausts

We should face the realities of the U.S. government’s role in fueling such ominous trends, in part by dismantling key…

12 months ago

60 Years After Lyndon Johnson’s “Daisy Ad,” the Silence on Nuclear War Is Dangerous

Now in high gear, the 2024 presidential campaign is completely lacking in the kind of wisdom about nuclear weapons and…

1 year ago