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.

How Hakeem Jeffries and J Street Teamed Up for Arming Genocide

  By Norman Solomon  When House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries sent out a recent “dear colleague” letter, its second sentence…

2 months ago

While Distancing from AIPAC, Most 2028 Democratic Hopefuls Are Still Embracing Israel

Notably absent from media coverage of the recent public splits between AIPAC and Democratic politicians has been any mention of…

5 months ago

Daniel Ellsberg Speaks to Us as the War on Iran Continues

Thirty-five years ago, at the time of the Gulf War, Daniel Ellsberg wrote in his journal: “There is a time…

6 months ago

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…

9 months 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…

10 months ago

Victims Without Victimizers

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

11 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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year ago