Norman Solomon

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

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,…

2 years 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…

2 years 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