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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 Bernie Delegates Network. Solomon is the author of a dozen books include War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death.
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Friday, April 10, 2020
Bernie's Decision: Retreat Should Not Be Confused with Surrender We don't have a choice of whether or not we're in a class war. It's going on perpetually -- waged with enormous financial, political and media firepower. The firepower of class warfare against Bernie Sanders has been ferocious and unrelenting.
Friday, April 10, 2020Bernie's Decision: Retreat Should Not Be Confused with Surrender We don't have a choice of whether or not we're in a class war. It's going on perpetually -- waged with enormous financial, political and media firepower. The firepower of class warfare against Bernie Sanders has been ferocious and unrelenting.
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Friday, June 5, 2020
Solidarity Includes Wearing a Mask at Protests Wearing a mask is about solidarity. Unfortunately, some protesters have not worn masks, perhaps unaware that they were putting others at risk. Meanwhile, some police officers have disregarded orders to wear masks.
Friday, June 5, 2020Solidarity Includes Wearing a Mask at Protests Wearing a mask is about solidarity. Unfortunately, some protesters have not worn masks, perhaps unaware that they were putting others at risk. Meanwhile, some police officers have disregarded orders to wear masks.
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Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Statement on Ro Khanna Leading the CA Democratic Delegation The groundswell of support for Rep. Khanna to lead the largest state delegation to the convention has yielded a bonus -- the additional selection of his House colleague Barbara Lee. Their records in Congress show that they fully recognize the need for a fundamental change in national budget priorities.
Wednesday, July 1, 2020Statement on Ro Khanna Leading the CA Democratic Delegation The groundswell of support for Rep. Khanna to lead the largest state delegation to the convention has yielded a bonus -- the additional selection of his House colleague Barbara Lee. Their records in Congress show that they fully recognize the need for a fundamental change in national budget priorities.
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Thursday, March 21, 2019
Reinventing Beto: How a GOP Accessory Became a Top Democratic Contender for President O'Rourke is hardly eager for those upcoming voters to realize that the growth of his political career is rooted in an alliance with powerful Republicans that began 15 years ago. Or that he supported raising the minimum age for Social Security in 2012. Or that during six years in Congress, through the end of 2018, he often aligned himself with Republican positions.
Thursday, March 21, 2019Reinventing Beto: How a GOP Accessory Became a Top Democratic Contender for President O'Rourke is hardly eager for those upcoming voters to realize that the growth of his political career is rooted in an alliance with powerful Republicans that began 15 years ago. Or that he supported raising the minimum age for Social Security in 2012. Or that during six years in Congress, through the end of 2018, he often aligned himself with Republican positions.
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Friday, June 5, 2015
A Misleading Moment of Celebration for a New Surveillance Program Many people in Europe and elsewhere who care about civil liberties and want true press freedom are looking at the United States: to understand what an aroused citizenry might be able to accomplish, seeking to roll back a dangerous accumulation of power by an ostensibly democratic government. Let's not unwittingly deceive them -- or ourselves -- about how much ground the U.S. surveillance state has lost so far.
Friday, June 5, 2015A Misleading Moment of Celebration for a New Surveillance Program Many people in Europe and elsewhere who care about civil liberties and want true press freedom are looking at the United States: to understand what an aroused citizenry might be able to accomplish, seeking to roll back a dangerous accumulation of power by an ostensibly democratic government. Let's not unwittingly deceive them -- or ourselves -- about how much ground the U.S. surveillance state has lost so far.
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Thursday, May 4, 2017
Killer Drones in the Empire State Since last summer the Defense Department has been using the runway and airspace at the Syracuse Hancock International Airport to train drone operators, who work at the adjoining Air National Guard base. Officials say it's the first time that the federal government has allowed military drones to utilize a commercial airport. It won't be the last time.
Thursday, May 4, 2017Killer Drones in the Empire State Since last summer the Defense Department has been using the runway and airspace at the Syracuse Hancock International Airport to train drone operators, who work at the adjoining Air National Guard base. Officials say it's the first time that the federal government has allowed military drones to utilize a commercial airport. It won't be the last time.
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Friday, August 26, 2016
The Debut of Our Revolution: Great Potential. But. The live-streaming debut of Our Revolution continued a terrific legacy from the Bernie campaign of educating and agitating with vital progressive positions on such crucial matters as economic justice, institutional racism, climate change, Wall Street, corporate trade deals and health care. But throughout Our Revolution's live-stream, war went unmentioned.
Friday, August 26, 2016The Debut of Our Revolution: Great Potential. But. The live-streaming debut of Our Revolution continued a terrific legacy from the Bernie campaign of educating and agitating with vital progressive positions on such crucial matters as economic justice, institutional racism, climate change, Wall Street, corporate trade deals and health care. But throughout Our Revolution's live-stream, war went unmentioned.
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Monday, May 14, 2018
As Midterms Near, New Polls Show Democrats Stalling The Democratic Party is still dominated by elected officials and power brokers who appear to be deeply worried that a future progressive upsurge of political engagement could loosen -- or even end -- their corporate-funded grip on the party. Methodical grassroots organizing will be necessary -- to bring down the GOP's deranged leadership.
Monday, May 14, 2018As Midterms Near, New Polls Show Democrats Stalling The Democratic Party is still dominated by elected officials and power brokers who appear to be deeply worried that a future progressive upsurge of political engagement could loosen -- or even end -- their corporate-funded grip on the party. Methodical grassroots organizing will be necessary -- to bring down the GOP's deranged leadership.
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Sunday, January 16, 2022
Ominous History in Real Time: Where We Are Now in the USA An all-out war on democracy is now underway in the United States. More than ever, the Republican Party is the electoral arm of unabashed white supremacy as well as such toxicities as xenophobia, nativism, anti-gay bigotry, patriarchy, and misogyny.
Sunday, January 16, 2022Ominous History in Real Time: Where We Are Now in the USA An all-out war on democracy is now underway in the United States. More than ever, the Republican Party is the electoral arm of unabashed white supremacy as well as such toxicities as xenophobia, nativism, anti-gay bigotry, patriarchy, and misogyny.
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Friday, March 7, 2014
Hillary Clinton on Putin: Playing a Dog-Eared "Hitler" Card With the largest nuclear arsenals on the planet, the United States and Russia have the entire world on a horrific knife's edge. Nuclear saber-rattling is implicit in what the prospective President Hillary Clinton has done in recent days, going out of her way to tar Russia's president with a Hitler brush.
Friday, March 7, 2014Hillary Clinton on Putin: Playing a Dog-Eared "Hitler" Card With the largest nuclear arsenals on the planet, the United States and Russia have the entire world on a horrific knife's edge. Nuclear saber-rattling is implicit in what the prospective President Hillary Clinton has done in recent days, going out of her way to tar Russia's president with a Hitler brush.
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Monday, January 26, 2015
Hiding the Political Subtext of Sterling Trial Whenever lawyers for ex-CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling sought to illuminate the political context for his prosecution as a leaker, prosecutors objected with the support of the federal judge, but politics has always lurked in the case's background, writes Norman Solomon.
Monday, January 26, 2015Hiding the Political Subtext of Sterling Trial Whenever lawyers for ex-CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling sought to illuminate the political context for his prosecution as a leaker, prosecutors objected with the support of the federal judge, but politics has always lurked in the case's background, writes Norman Solomon.
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Thursday, December 5, 2013
Real Journalism v. Big Brother In theory, pretty much everyone claims to like investigative journalism, even government officials. But the reaction is different when reporters expose troubling facts, especially if they make a favored country or politician look bad. Yet, that is what's needed.
Thursday, December 5, 2013Real Journalism v. Big Brother In theory, pretty much everyone claims to like investigative journalism, even government officials. But the reaction is different when reporters expose troubling facts, especially if they make a favored country or politician look bad. Yet, that is what's needed.
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Tuesday, July 4, 2017
Playing Chicken with Nuclear Annihilation Much of Official Washington wants to escalate the confrontation with nuclear-armed Russia, ignoring the terrifying reality that this game of chicken could end life on the planet, as Norman Solomon observes.
Tuesday, July 4, 2017Playing Chicken with Nuclear Annihilation Much of Official Washington wants to escalate the confrontation with nuclear-armed Russia, ignoring the terrifying reality that this game of chicken could end life on the planet, as Norman Solomon observes.
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Monday, December 14, 2020
Bernie Sanders and Progressives in Our Winter of Discontent At this point, Sanders and avid supporters of the Bernie 2020 campaign have ample reasons to feel frustrated, even "enormously" insulted. It's small comfort that Biden's picks so far are purportedly "not as bad as Obama's" were 12 years ago. That's a low bar, especially to those who understand that Barack Obama heavily corporatized his presidency from the outset.
Monday, December 14, 2020Bernie Sanders and Progressives in Our Winter of Discontent At this point, Sanders and avid supporters of the Bernie 2020 campaign have ample reasons to feel frustrated, even "enormously" insulted. It's small comfort that Biden's picks so far are purportedly "not as bad as Obama's" were 12 years ago. That's a low bar, especially to those who understand that Barack Obama heavily corporatized his presidency from the outset.
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Friday, June 7, 2013
An Open Letter to Dianne Feinstein, Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee Senator Feinstein, your energetic contempt for the Bill of Rights is serving a bipartisan power structure that threatens to crush our democratic possibilities. A huge number of people in California and around the country will oppose your efforts for the surveillance state at every turn.
Friday, June 7, 2013An Open Letter to Dianne Feinstein, Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee Senator Feinstein, your energetic contempt for the Bill of Rights is serving a bipartisan power structure that threatens to crush our democratic possibilities. A huge number of people in California and around the country will oppose your efforts for the surveillance state at every turn.
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Thursday, May 10, 2018
New Polls Show Anti-Trump Isn't Enough to Beat GOP With six months to go before the midterm election, new national polls are showing that the Democratic Party's much-touted momentum to gain control of the House has stalled out. The latest numbers tell us a lot about the limits of denouncing Donald Trump without offering much more than a return to the old status quo.
Thursday, May 10, 2018New Polls Show Anti-Trump Isn't Enough to Beat GOP With six months to go before the midterm election, new national polls are showing that the Democratic Party's much-touted momentum to gain control of the House has stalled out. The latest numbers tell us a lot about the limits of denouncing Donald Trump without offering much more than a return to the old status quo.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Bob Dylan and the Ukraine Crisis Fifty-nine years ago, Bob Dylan recorded "With God on Our Side." You probably haven't heard it on the radio for a very long time, if ever, but right now you could listen to it as his most evergreen of topical songs:
Wednesday, February 23, 2022Bob Dylan and the Ukraine Crisis Fifty-nine years ago, Bob Dylan recorded "With God on Our Side." You probably haven't heard it on the radio for a very long time, if ever, but right now you could listen to it as his most evergreen of topical songs:
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Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Bernie Sanders Can Silence His Critics in New Hampshire Whether they agree with Bernie or not, people widely understand that he absolutely means what he says. And that helps to explain why, during the next seven days, in national media and across New Hampshire, corporate forces will be in overdrive to prevent a Bernie Sanders victory in the New Hampshire primary.
Tuesday, February 4, 2020Bernie Sanders Can Silence His Critics in New Hampshire Whether they agree with Bernie or not, people widely understand that he absolutely means what he says. And that helps to explain why, during the next seven days, in national media and across New Hampshire, corporate forces will be in overdrive to prevent a Bernie Sanders victory in the New Hampshire primary.
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Thursday, August 27, 2020
To Beat Trump, Stand Tall for Progressive Values With another Trump presidency, the left would have few options and could face new levels of government repression. . Our democracy, our planet, and our human rights would continue to sustain enormous and potentially irreparable damage.
Thursday, August 27, 2020To Beat Trump, Stand Tall for Progressive Values With another Trump presidency, the left would have few options and could face new levels of government repression. . Our democracy, our planet, and our human rights would continue to sustain enormous and potentially irreparable damage.
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Monday, January 13, 2020
Biden, Buttigieg and Corporate Media Are Eager for Sanders and Warren to Clash For progressives, the need for a Sanders-Warren united front is crucial. Yes, there are some significant differences between the two candidates, especially on foreign policy (which is one of the reasons that I actively support Sanders). Those differences should be aired in the open, while maintaining a tactical alliance.
Monday, January 13, 2020Biden, Buttigieg and Corporate Media Are Eager for Sanders and Warren to Clash For progressives, the need for a Sanders-Warren united front is crucial. Yes, there are some significant differences between the two candidates, especially on foreign policy (which is one of the reasons that I actively support Sanders). Those differences should be aired in the open, while maintaining a tactical alliance.
