Norman Solomon

Undebatable: What Harris and Trump Could Not Say About Israel and Gaza

“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth,” Aldous Huxley wrote, describing…

1 year ago

Knowledge Is Power. Gaza War Supporters Don’t Want Students to Have Both.

Silence is complicity, and that’s the way Israel’s allies like it.

1 year ago

Josh Shapiro Would Be a Dangerous Choice for Harris Running Mate

In a July 23 tweet on X, progressive leader and former Ohio State Senator Nina Turner wrote: “Choosing Governor Josh…

1 year ago

The Democratic Party’s Culture of Loyalty

Reasons to reaffirm warm relations with the likes of Haim Saban were obvious. Presumably, the president remembered that a single…

1 year ago

The Absence — and Presence — of Daniel Ellsberg: A Year After His Death, He’s Still with Us

Above all, Daniel Ellsberg was preoccupied with opposing policies that could lead to nuclear war. “No policies in human history…

1 year ago

The Dead End of Liberal American Zionism

Jews are going to have to make a painful reappraisal of the project that imposes a “Jewish” state in Palestine.…

1 year ago

Roundtable on Current U.S. Foreign Policy: Militarism Unhinged

And yet U.S. policymakers are still mired in imperial delusions, fueling fights to maintain and extend their hegemony in Ukraine,…

1 year ago

Close-up of Death Culture: 1,000 in Entertainment Biz Proclaim Support for Gaza Slaughter

Last weekend, on Egypt’s border at the crossing to Rafah, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said: "Here from this crossing, we…

1 year ago

Smearing Ceasefire Protesters, Pelosi Combines Devotion to Israel with Cold-War Mania

Like President Biden and so many others in the political establishment, Nancy Pelosi cannot imagine breaking with the murderous Israeli…

2 years ago

With Attack on Yemen, the U.S. Is Shameless: “We Make the Rules, We Break the Rules”

In fact, as Common Dreams reported, Houthi forces “began launching missiles and drones toward Israel and attacking shipping traffic in…

2 years ago