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Are Elected Democrats Ignoring the Possibility of a Train Wreck in 2024?

Recent news reports have been filled with results of one poll after another after another showing that President Biden continues to weaken as a...

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Truthout

Norman Solomon

Elected Democrats are enabling Joe Biden — it's time for the party to face reality

Recent news reports have been filled with results of one poll after another after another showing that President Biden continues to weaken as a...

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Salon

Norman Solomon

Elected Democrats Do Themselves—and the Rest of Us—No Favors by Enabling Biden

With the start of presidential primaries just a few months away, the crux of the matter is that Democrats in Congress are opting for self-focused,...

25.09.2023 1

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Joe Biden and Vietnam: American presidents can't tell the truth about a tragic mistake

When Joe Biden flew out of Hanoi on Sept. 11, he was leaving a country where U.S. warfare caused roughly 3.8 million Vietnamese deaths. But like every...

24.09.2023 8

Salon

Norman Solomon

Why Won’t Biden Tell the Truth About the Vietnam War?

No matter how many lies it tells or how many people it kills, being the United States government means never having to say you’re sorry.

18.09.2023 0

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Regret for the War on Terror Is Not the Same as Remorse

13.09.2023 1

The Nation

Norman Solomon

A short history of America's disaster: How 9/11 bred the endless war on terror

This article is adapted from the introduction to Norman Solomon's book "War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine."...

11.09.2023 10

Salon

Norman Solomon

The 'War of Terror' From Hell We Chose After 9/11

Remembering the day that a war designed never to end started.

07.09.2023 0

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Trump’s True Believers Bring the War on Terror Home

War is all about inflicting sufficient violence to achieve goals; that was the basic method of the pro-Trump mob that attacked the Capitol in a...

29.08.2023 1

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Trump fans are ready for political violence. Why are the backers of endless war so shocked?

Ever since Donald Trump became a former president, news outlets and commentators have cited polls showing that many Republicans believe violence...

28.08.2023 20

Salon

Norman Solomon

Artificial stupidity and me: If AI can do this to my book, what will it do in an actual war?

At first, I admit, I was a bit flattered to learn that online entrepreneurs were selling study guides for my new book. I thought of CliffsNotes from...

26.08.2023 10

Salon

Norman Solomon

If This Is Artificial Intelligence, Let’s Go With Real Stupidity

Six decades after Martin Luther King Jr. warned of “guided missiles and misguided men,” the missiles are even more terrible, the people ordering...

22.08.2023 6

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

The US Government Once Called Hiroshima and Nagasaki ‘Nuclear Tests’

Since the bombings, presidents have routinely offered rhetorical camouflage for reckless nuclear policies, rolling the dice for global catastrophe.

06.08.2023 5

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Were the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings "nuclear tests"? The U.S. government said so

In 1980, when I asked the press office at the U.S. Department of Energy to send me a listing of nuclear bomb test explosions, the agency mailed me an...

06.08.2023 4

Salon

Norman Solomon

Cluster Bomb Decision Puts Blood of Future Civilian Victims on Biden's Hands

For entrenched elites in Washington, using taxpayer money to shred the bodies of children and other civilians isn’t a big deal when there’s...

13.07.2023 2

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

"Soldiers Don't Go Mad": A stunning account of poetry, paradox and the horrors of war

Midway through his stunning new book "Soldiers Don't Go Mad," author Charles Glass quotes a declaration from the Times of London on Aug. 18, 1917:...

09.07.2023 40

Salon

Norman Solomon

Making Madness Normal in Wartime

A new book on World War I by journalist Charles Glass, who has covered recent wars in the Middle East, offers an opportunity for us to compare then...

05.07.2023 1

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Is Killing and Being Killed Really the Highest Form of Patriotism?

Given the destructiveness of U.S. militarism, a strong argument can be made that true patriotism involves preventing and stopping wars instead of...

29.06.2023 20

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

America's "systemic racism" isn't just domestic: Consider who dies around the world in our wars

A recent Justice Department report concluded that "systemic" racial bias in the Minneapolis Police Department "made what happened to George Floyd...

27.06.2023 2

Salon

Norman Solomon

Systemic Racism and the US War Machine

We must realize that a nation so profoundly affected by individual and structural racism at home is apt to be affected by such racism in its approach...

26.06.2023 4

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Daniel Ellsberg Has Passed Away: He Left Us A Message – OpEd

When Daniel Ellsberg died on Friday (16 June), the world lost a transcendent whistleblower with a powerful ethos of compassion

17.06.2023 10

Eurasia Review

Norman Solomon

Daniel Ellsberg is gone — but he left us an important message

Daniel Ellsberg died on Friday at his home in California. He was 92. With his passing, the world loses a transcendent whistleblower with a powerful...

17.06.2023 30

Salon

Norman Solomon

Daniel Ellsberg Has Passed Away. He Left Us a Message.

We loved him not only for what he had done but also for what he kept doing, for who he was, luminously, ongoing. The power of his vibrant example...

16.06.2023 3

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Daniel Ellsberg Wanted Americans to See the Truth About War

In an interview before his death, the Pentagon Papers whistleblower urged the media and the government to be more honest about America’s bombing of...

16.06.2023 5

The Intercept

Norman Solomon

Why Is US Media Blind To American War Atrocities? – OpEd

On the first day of March 2022, visitors to the New York Times homepage saw a headline across the top

16.06.2023 4

Eurasia Review

Norman Solomon

The Convenient Myth of “Humane” Wars

June 5, 2023

05.06.2023 6

The Nation

Norman Solomon

What Would Martin Luther King Jr. Think of This Biden-McCarthy Debt Ceiling Deal?

An agreement in which Pentagon spending was off the table but sharp cuts to programs that provide a lifeline to the nation's most vulnerable...

01.06.2023 10

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

What word would MLK have used to describe Biden’s debt ceiling deal? ‘Demonic’

President Biden meets with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy at the White House to discuss the debt limit on May 22. The budget deal reached doesn’t...

31.05.2023 4

San Francisco Chronicle

Norman Solomon

The Speech That Biden Should Give: ‘I’ve Changed My Mind’

With poll numbers frighteningly low and the stakes astronomically high, here's what the president should say as he assesses his 2024 run.

16.05.2023 3

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

What if George W. Bush was right? "Mission Accomplished," 20 years later

Twenty years ago, President George W. Bush landed in a twin-engine Navy jet on an aircraft carrier, strode across the deck in a bulky flight suit and...

01.05.2023 5

Salon

Norman Solomon

Twenty Years After George W. Bush's Infamous 'Mission Accomplished' Claim

The disgraced former president's rhetorical victory lap that came before protracted bloodshed deserves all of its notoriety 20 years later.

01.05.2023 7

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

American prophet: Nearing the end of his life, Daniel Ellsberg can't be confined to the past

In just a few words — "Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future" — George Orwell summed...

15.04.2023 7

Salon

Norman Solomon

Putin's nuclear posturing is heinous — but reckless U.S. policy led the way

Vladimir Putin's announcement over the weekend that Russia will deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus marked a further escalation of potentially...

29.03.2023 10

Salon

Norman Solomon

No Country for Nuclear Madmen

Everything that can be done must done to avert global nuclear annihilation.

27.03.2023 20

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

The Racist, Right-Wing Return of “Dilbert”

March 22, 2023

22.03.2023 10

The Nation

Norman Solomon

The urbanity of evil: 20 years after the Iraq invasion, the lies continue

Vast quantities of lies from top U.S. government officials led up to the Iraq invasion. Now, marking its 20th anniversary, the same media outlets...

19.03.2023 20

Salon

Norman Solomon

The Urbanity of Evil: 20 Years After the US Invasion of Iraq

Vast quantities of lies from top U.S. government officials led up to the Iraq invasion. Now, marking its 20th anniversary, the same media outlets that...

14.03.2023 10

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Israel's liberal supporters speak out against Netanyahu — but they're still in denial

When the New York Times featured an opinion article by billionaire Michael Bloomberg this week, it harmonized with a crescendo of other recent pleas...

10.03.2023 20

Salon

Norman Solomon

Israel's Liberal Supporters Are Taking Their Denial to a New Level

Israel has been the fruition of a Zionist dream, but at the same time a real-life nightmare for Palestinian people.

09.03.2023 30

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Showdown in Nevada: Democratic establishment targets progressive party chair

To understand the current fierce attacks on the progressive leadership of the Nevada Democratic Party, it's helpful to recall the panicked reaction...

02.03.2023 10

Salon

Norman Solomon

Democratic Establishment Targets Progressive Party Chair in Nevada

What's happening to Judith Whitmer and her allies in Nevada is a classic battle between top-down corporate money and bottom-up progressive...

28.02.2023 20

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

With Feinstein on Her Way Out, Can a Progressive Win Her Senate Seat?

After three decades in the Senate, Dianne Feinstein has announced that she will not seek re-election in 2024, giving Californians a valuable...

15.02.2023 4

Truthout

Norman Solomon

Biden Intervention in Democratic Primaries Is a Show of Weakness

Having his way with the Democratic National Committee is a slam dunk because Biden supplies the ball, hires the referees, owns the nets, and controls...

31.01.2023 5

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Does the Democratic Base Think Biden Is the Best Choice for 2024? Let's Ask Them

The president doesn’t want to ask the question of loyal Democratic voters because he probably wouldn’t like the answer.

23.01.2023 10

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

If Democrats Need a Strong 2024 Ticket, Biden Should Not Be on It

Having Biden at the top of the ticket would be a serious liability up and down Democratic ballots nationwide.

17.01.2023 7

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

The Increasingly Dangerous Myth of the 'Moderate Republican'

Applying adjectives like "moderate" to congressional Republicans is much worse than merely bad word choices.

12.01.2023 10

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

If Biden Runs in 2024, Who—If Anyone—Will Represent Progressives?

For the electoral prospects of the Democratic Party in 2024, representing the status quo invites cascading disasters

05.01.2023 30

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

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