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 Tuesday, February 04, 2020 Iowa Fiasco Raises Stakes for New Hampshire, Where Sanders Could Win Big While journalists pick through the ashes of the Iowa caucuses meltdown, thousands of progressive activists are moving forward to make election history in New Hampshire. In sharp contrast to the prattle of mainstream punditry, the movements behind Bernie Sanders are propelled by people who engage... Read more |
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Views Monday, February 03, 2020 The Creation Myth of the Buttigieg Campaign This weekend, Pete Buttigieg told supporters that he became a viable candidate for president “on the strength of our vision” and “the urgency of our convictions.” Such rhetoric fits snugly into a creation myth about his campaign that Buttigieg has been promoting since early 2019. Summing up the... Read more |
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Views Monday, January 27, 2020 Young People Are Set to Make History With Bernie Sanders—If They Show Fifty-two years after young people changed history with the New Hampshire primary election, a new generation is ready to do it again—this time by mobilizing behind Bernie Sanders. During early 1968, thousands of young people volunteered in New Hampshire to help the insurgent presidential campaign... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, January 21, 2020 Bernie Sanders' People-Powered Campaign Is on Fire To corporate media, Bernie Sanders is incorrigible. He won’t stop defying the standard assumptions about what’s possible in national politics. His 2020 campaign—with feet on the ground and eyes on visionary horizons -- is a danger to corporate capitalism’s “natural” order that enables wealth to... Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 16, 2020 Not Bernie, Us. Not Warren, Us. The dismal conflict that erupted this week between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren should never have happened. But now that it has, supporters must provide grassroots leadership to mitigate the dangerous mess. The argument that broke out between Warren and Sanders last weekend and escalated in... Read more |
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Views Monday, January 13, 2020 Biden, Buttigieg, and Corporate Media Are Eager for Sanders and Warren 'Trash Talk' Narrative to Take Hold Corporate Democrats got a jolt at the end of last week when the highly regarded Iowa Poll showed Bernie Sanders surging into first place among Iowans likely to vote in the state’s Feb. 3 caucuses. The other big change was a steep drop for the previous Iowa frontrunner, Pete Buttigieg, who—along... Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 09, 2020 Trump Is a Reckless and Dangerous Warmonger, But Too Many Democrats Continue to Work Against Peace The huge crisis with Iran is more dangerous because so many Democrats have been talking out of both sides of their congressional mouths. An example is the recent rhetoric from Sen. Chris Murphy. “The attack on our embassy in Baghdad is horrifying but predictable,” he tweeted on the last day of 2019... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, January 07, 2020 Biden and Buttigieg Exemplify How Corporatism and ‘the Madness of Militarism’ Go Together There's nothing like an illegal and utterly reckless U.S. act of war to illuminate the political character of presidential candidates. In the days since the assassination of Iran’s top military official, two of the highest-polling Democratic contenders have displayed the kind of moral cowardice... Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 02, 2020 Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg Are Not to Be Trusted In a recent New Yorker profile of Pete Buttigieg, one sentence stands out: “Watch Buttigieg long enough and you notice that he uses abstraction as an escape hatch.” Evasive platitudes are also routine for Joe Biden, the other major Democratic presidential candidate running in what mainstream... Read more |
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Views Friday, December 27, 2019 Here It Comes: Get Ready for a Stop-Bernie Onslaught Like You've Never Seen A central premise of conventional media wisdom has collapsed. On Thursday, both the New York Times and Politico published major articles reporting that Bernie Sanders really could win the Democratic presidential nomination. Such acknowledgments will add to the momentum of the Bernie 2020 campaign... Read more |