Norman Solomon

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.

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…

3 weeks 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…

3 weeks 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…

4 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

“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

What’s Certain About Results of the Presidential Election

The establishment is ever alert to the danger that progressive populism could majorly reduce income inequality and subdue corporate power.

1 year ago