Norman Solomon is cofounder and national coordinator of RootsAction.org. He was a Bernie Sanders delegate from California to the 2016 Democratic National Convention and is currently a coordinator of the relaunched independent Bernie Delegates Network. Solomon is the author of a dozen books including War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death.
By Norman Solomon When House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries sent out a recent “dear colleague” letter, its second sentence…
The saying “that’s history” is usually meant to be dismissive, but in politics the past casts a long shadow…
Virtually everyone killed by the U.S. military during the “war on terror” has been a person of color. To point…
Notably absent from media coverage of the recent public splits between AIPAC and Democratic politicians has been any mention of…
Thirty-five years ago, at the time of the Gulf War, Daniel Ellsberg wrote in his journal: “There is a time…
In sharp contrast, a national Quinnipiac Poll found that 77 percent of Democrats “think Israel is committing genocide.” That means…
The danger of normalizing autocracy is heightened when the utterly serious appraisal of Trump as a fascist can be recast…
It is time to stop trying to make the market do good. It is time to stop trying to fuse…
Far from its victims, air power remains the height of modernity. And yet, as the monk Thomas Merton concluded in…
Unimpeded, a daily process continues to exterminate more and more of the 2.1 million Palestinian people who remain in Gaza…