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" and "Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State."
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Views Monday, September 30, 2019 MoveOn's Phony New Campaign for 'Protecting Whistleblowers' All of a sudden, MoveOn wants to help "national security" whistleblowers. Well, some of them, anyway. After many years of carefully refusing to launch a single campaign in support of brave whistleblowers who faced vicious prosecution during the Obama administration—including Army whistleblower... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 26, 2019 To Joe Biden, Trump's Potential Successor Mike Pence "Is a Decent Guy" When Joe Biden told an audience that Mike Pence "is a decent guy," Pence had already been vice president for more than two years. After the comment drew fierce criticism, Biden responded that he'd said it "in a foreign policy context"—an odd effort at damage control, given that Pence has publicly... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, September 17, 2019 The 'Official Secrets' Movie vs. Joe Biden's Lies About the Iraq War Joe Biden’s recent efforts to deny his record of support for invading Iraq are marvels of evasion, with falsehoods that have been refuted by one well-documented appraisal after another after another . This month, Biden claimed that his vote for war on the Senate floor was somehow not a vote for war... Read more |
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Views Monday, September 09, 2019 Why a DNC Vice Chair Bawled Me Out for Sharing Critical, Accurate Information About Joe Biden The man quickly identified himself as a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee. He didn’t need to tell me that he was hopping mad. Ken Martin was angry that my colleagues and I were handing out a flier—providing some inconvenient facts about Joe Biden—to delegates and activists as they... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 05, 2019 To Win Power, Progressives Must Embrace 'Primary' as a Verb Progressive activists often see a frustrating pattern. Many Democrats in office are good at liberal platitudes but don’t really fight for what we need. Even when constituents organize to lobby or protest, they have little leverage compared to big campaign donors, party leaders and corporate media... Read more |
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Views Thursday, August 29, 2019 With Sanders and Warren Surging, Is Wall Street's 2020 Nightmare Coming True? For plutocrats, this summer has gotten a bit scary. Two feared candidates are rising. Trusted candidates are underperforming. The 2020 presidential election could turn out to be a real-life horror movie: A Nightmare on Wall Street. “Wall Street executives who want Trump out,” Politico reported in... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, August 14, 2019 Why Bernie Sanders Is Absolutely Correct About the Washington Post—and Corporate Media Overall Many decades ago, the great media critic George Seldes observed: "The most sacred cow of the press is the press itself." That remains true today. Bernie Sanders set off the latest round of outraged denial from elite media this week when he talked to a crowd in New Hampshire about the tax avoidance... Read more |
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Views Thursday, August 08, 2019 The Danger of Nancy Pelosi’s Bad Attitude Toward Progressives Here’s a thought experiment: Imagine that a letter from the billionaire real-estate broker George M. Marcus was hand-delivered to the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, asking to meet with her. What are the chances that Pelosi would find time on her calendar? Hint: Marcus gave $4.5 million to... Read more |
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Views Thursday, August 01, 2019 There’s Nothing Moderate About "Moderates." A Primary Example Is Joe Biden The comedian George Carlin liked to marvel at oxymorons like "jumbo shrimp" and "military intelligence." Now, as the race for the Democratic presidential nomination intensifies, reporters and pundits at corporate media outlets are escalating their use of a one-word political oxymoron—"moderate." As... Read more |
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Views Monday, July 08, 2019 Corporate Team of Rivals: Harris Now in Top Tier with Biden to Prevent a Progressive Nominee The odds are now very strong that Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders will be the Democratic presidential nominee. New polling averages say they account for almost 70 percent of support nationwide, while no other candidate is anywhere near. For progressives who want to... Read more |