Norman Solomon

Time for a United Front Against Trump and Realism About Harris

 “The harms of the other options” mean that the best course of action is to vote for Harris, 25 Islamic…

1 year ago

“Escalation Dominance” . . . and the Prospect of More Than 1,000 Holocausts

We should face the realities of the U.S. government’s role in fueling such ominous trends, in part by dismantling key…

1 year ago

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…

2 years 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.…

2 years 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