Norman Solomon
Norman Solomon is co-founder and national coordinator of RootsAction.org. His books include "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death" (2006) and "Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State" (2007).
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Views Monday, November 09, 2020 Progressive Message to Joe Biden: Don't You Dare 'Cooperate' With Mitch McConnell Near the end of his well-crafted victory speech Saturday night, Joe Biden decried “the refusal of Democrats and Republicans to cooperate with one another.” He went on to say that “we can decide to cooperate. And I believe that this is part of the mandate from the American people. They want us to... Read more |
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Views Friday, November 06, 2020 Progressives Made Trump's Defeat Possible. Now It's Time to Challenge Biden and Other Corporate Democrats. The evident defeat of Donald Trump would not have been possible without the grassroots activism and hard work of countless progressives. Now, on vital issues—climate, healthcare, income inequality, militarism, the prison-industrial complex, corporate power and so much more—it’s time to engage with... Read more |
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Views Thursday, October 29, 2020 Why Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg Are So Adamant About the Imperative of Defeating Trump "There is a kind of an official view about democracy—it says that you, the public, are spectators not participants,” activist and scholar Noam Chomsky points out in a new video. “You have a function. The function is to show up every couple of years, push a lever, go home, don't bother the important... Read more |
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Views Monday, October 19, 2020 Why a Former Green Party Candidate Is on a Very Long Fast—Urging Progressives to Vote for Biden to Defeat Trump In ordinary times, Ted Glick would hardly be someone you’d expect to hear urging fellow progressives to vote for the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee. During the first 18 years of this century, Glick was an active member of the Green Party. He ran for the U.S. Senate as the Green Party’s... Read more |
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Views Monday, October 12, 2020 All Left Hands on Deck. Step 1: Defeat Trump. Step 2: Challenge Biden The extreme dangers of this political moment have forced leftists to face contradictory truths about Joe Biden. At once, he can be seen as dreadful and essential. A longtime servant of corporate America and a politician of last resort. The current top functionary for neoliberalism and the... Read more |
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Views Monday, October 05, 2020 The Man Who Would Be President: Mike Pence, Corporate Theocrat If President Trump dies from the coronavirus that has killed more than 200,000 Americans largely due to his deliberate negligence, the man replacing him will be no less dangerous. While Mike Pence has eluded tough media scrutiny -- in part because he exhibits such a low-key style in contrast to... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, September 29, 2020 Tax Revelations and Corporate Media Won't Defeat Trump The big banner headline across the top of the New York Times homepage as Tuesday got underway—“TRUMP’S TAXES SHOW CHRONIC LOSSES AND YEARS OF TAX AVOIDANCE”—might give the impression that Donald Trump is finally on the verge of political downfall. Don’t believe it for a moment. The same kind of... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 24, 2020 We’ve Got Our Own Reasons to Elect Biden—and He Isn’t One of Them Many people are now painfully aware that the United States is on the verge of falling under an iron fist of repressive rule, crushing basic democratic possibilities, if Donald Trump gets a second term as president. Yet the Democratic Party nominee is weak, uninspiring, often inarticulate and apt to... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 17, 2020 Trump’s Climate Denial Gains Strength If We’re in Denial About His Neo-Fascism Spiking temperatures, melting glaciers, rising seas, catastrophic hurricanes and unprecedented wildfires are clear signs of a climate emergency caused by humans. Denying the awful reality makes the situation worse. The same can be said of denial about the current momentum toward fascism under... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 10, 2020 The Presidential Election: 'A 200-Pound Sack of Concrete' vs. 'The Orange Menace' At a time when long-winded polemics and punditry about the upcoming presidential election are all over the place, a longtime progressive populist author and agitator has just summarized it all in less than a minute. "Hi, Jim Hightower here," a just-released video begins, "with a message for... Read more |