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Biden’s Slow Exit Reveals the Flaws in the Democratic Party’s Culture

Obsequious loyalty, top-down decision-making, and an obsession with fundraising have made the party less responsible to its rank and file, progressive...

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Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

The Illusion of Party Unity in the Democratic Party

23.07.2024 2

The Nation

Norman Solomon

An Ethos of Compliance in the Democratic Party Made the Biden Debacle Possible

The Biden campaign drove the Democratic Party into a ditch and speculation is rampant about grim prospects for the election. But little scrutiny has...

23.07.2024 3

Truthout

Norman Solomon

After Assassination Attempt on Trump, Pressure on Biden to Step Aside Must Continue

Trump is now stronger than ever and everything in our power must be done to prevent his reelection.

15.07.2024 5

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

An attempt on Donald Trump’s life should be a wake-up call for the Democratic Party

After surviving an assassination attempt at his Pennsylvania rally, Donald Trump is in a stronger position than ever to win a second term in November....

15.07.2024 10

Salon

Norman Solomon

Bernie Gets It Wrong on Biden

What we really need to hear from Bernie Sanders is a pledge to do everything he can to see that Donald Trump is defeated. Whether we like it or not,...

08.07.2024 10

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

After Biden's ABC Interview, It's Time to Pull the Emergency Cord

It has become clear that only direct intervention by Democrats in Congress, propelled by grassroots pressure, can avert a Biden 2024 train wreck.

06.07.2024 30

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Who you gonna believe, Biden loyalists or your own eyes and ears?

During the week since President Joe Biden’s awful debate performance, spinners for his re-election campaign slowly began to admit what actually...

05.07.2024 20

Salon

Norman Solomon

We Cannot Gaslight Our Way Out of This

When deference to a leader substitutes fealty for humanity.

01.07.2024 20

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Jamal Bowman was beat by a toxic blend of militarism and Zionism

New York Congressman Jamaal Bowman lost a primary election Tuesday after  unprecedented spending against him by powerful forces that insist...

27.06.2024 9

Salon

Norman Solomon

Toxic Blend of Zionism, Militarism, and Right-Wing Spending Take Down Jamaal Bowman

The merger of American and Israeli militarism is now more comprehensive than ever. Which is why it's imperative to support those who show the...

26.06.2024 10

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Gruesome hypocrisy of US foreign policy being exposed in Gaza, Ukraine

When someone shows you who they are,” Maya Angelou said, “believe them the first time." That should apply to foreign-policy elites who show you...

22.06.2024 20

Salon

Norman Solomon

When US Government Officials Show You Who They Are, Believe Them

With carnage persisting in Gaza, it's easy enough to say that Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has shown us who he is. But so has...

20.06.2024 3

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Daniel Ellsberg’s Moral Acuity Is More Necessary Than Ever

11.06.2024 7

The Nation

Norman Solomon

Honoring Daniel Ellsberg’s Legacy 1 Year After His Death

While he can no longer speak to the world about the latest developments, Ellsberg will continue to speak directly to hearts and minds about the...

10.06.2024 40

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

The Dead End of Liberal American Zionism

The dream of humanistic Zionism is collapsing, but—like other entrenched Jewish groups and a declining number of American Jews—J Street is...

20.05.2024 30

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Students Are Rejecting the Country’s Culture of Death

14.05.2024 60

The Nation

Norman Solomon

Courageous Students Disrupt America's Culture of Death and War

10.05.2024 30

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

When an escalation in war isn't newsworthy to the New York Times

When the Washington Post revealed Friday afternoon that “the Biden administration in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of...

03.04.2024 30

Salon

Norman Solomon

Just Another Day at the Genocide Office

By refusing to cover a new U.S. shipment of vast quantities of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, TheNew York Times gave a boost to a process of normalizing...

02.04.2024 9

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Hollywood's backlash to Jonathan Glazer's Oscar speech only proves his point

Last week, Variety reported that “more than 1,000 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter" denouncing...

28.03.2024 60

Salon

Norman Solomon

Death Culture: When 1,000 in Hollywood Proclaim Support for Gaza Slaughter

What filmmaker Jonathan Glazer said in scarcely one minute at the Oscars retains profound moral power that no distortions can hide.

25.03.2024 20

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

How Israel hides its atrocities in Gaza

When we condemn Hamas for its October 7 attacks in Israel, we’re not accused of anti-Arab bigotry. Nor should we be. Nothing could possibly justify...

24.03.2024 30

Salon

Norman Solomon

The False Charges of 'Antisemitism' by Apologists for Israel's Atrocities in Gaza

The gist of the trick is to equate Israel with the Jewish religion—and then to equate opposition to Israel with antisemitism.

21.03.2024 30

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Joe Biden's moral collapse on Gaza could help Donald Trump win

Days ago, when the United States cast the only vote in the U.N. Security Council against a resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza, it was yet another...

25.02.2024 10

Salon

Norman Solomon

Biden's Complicity in Gaza Is Making It More Likely Fascist Trump Will Win

The electoral base that Biden is going to need for re-election is heavily against his support for Israel’s war on Gaza. There is no way to hide from...

15.02.2024 9

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

The Nuclear Arms Race Never Ended

13.02.2024 6

The Nation

Norman Solomon

We Still Have Far to Go to Put the Breaks on the Nuclear Arms Race

What passes for debate on Capitol Hill is routinely an exercise in green-eyeshade discourse, assessing the most cost-effective outlays to facilitate...

09.02.2024 20

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Nancy Pelosi is desperately grasping at straws with new Russia smear

Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi is now straddling the thin line between vile demagoguery and pure idiocy. During a Sunday appearance on CNN, she smeared...

30.01.2024 7

Salon

Norman Solomon

Nancy Pelosi Smears Humanitarians Calling for a Gaza Cease-Fire

Like Congress as a whole, Pelosi refuses to acknowledge that so many Americans are protesting because the Israeli armed forces have been engaged in...

29.01.2024 5

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Horror movie for progressives: Biden vs. Trump 2.0 is really happening

The New Hampshire primary has confirmed that the United States is on the way to a disastrous fall election. Unless a health crisis forces withdrawal...

25.01.2024 10

Salon

Norman Solomon

The Dystopian Electoral Outlook Before Us Will Demand This: Candor

Biden and Trump both won their party's respective primary in New Hampshire and now the stage is set for an election year unlike anything we've...

24.01.2024 10

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Why we're not seeing the real Gaza war in the media

Zen wisdom tells us that the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. Yet it’s easy to fall into the illusion that when we see news about the...

19.01.2024 9

Salon

Norman Solomon

How the Gaza War Can Be Big News and Invisible at the Same Time

What is most profoundly important about the war in Gaza—what actually happens to people being terrorized, massacred, maimed, and traumatized—has...

18.01.2024 3

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

US Attack on Yemen Exposes the Lie of Supposed “Rules-Based International Order”

Have you heard the one about the U.S. government wanting a “rules-based international order”? It’s a grimly laughable premise, but the...

13.01.2024 20

Truthout

Norman Solomon

Attack on Yemen exposes hypocrisy of Biden and Blinken's "rules-based order"

Have you heard the one about the U.S. government wanting a “rules-based international order”? It’s a grimly laughable premise, but the...

13.01.2024 50

Salon

Norman Solomon

What Does 'Rules-Based International Order' Mean When US Can Bomb Yemen at Will?

What US foreign policy shamelessly amounts to is this: 'We make the rules so we get to break the rules."

12.01.2024 4

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Most Members of Congress Have Been Moral Failures on Gaza

The vast majority of members of Congress have refused to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, even after three months of slaughter and destruction by...

09.01.2024 5

Truthout

Norman Solomon

Most members of Congress have been moral failures on Gaza: Hold them to account

The vast majority of members of Congress have refused to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, even after three months of slaughter and destruction by...

09.01.2024 20

Salon

Norman Solomon

The Abject Failure of Nearly Every Member of Congress on Gaza

Members of Congress, now providing such easy rhetoric in public statements to justify huge and ongoing military support to Israel, would not be so...

08.01.2024 20

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

President Biden: Learn the Names of Children Murdered in Gaza by Israel

The massacre in Uvalde took the lives of 19 children. For nearly three months, the ongoing massacre in Gaza has taken the lives of that many children...

26.12.2023 6

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

What Daniel Ellsberg Knew—and Rightly Feared—About Nuclear Armageddon

Throughout his adult life, the whistleblower known mostly for leaking The Pentagon Papers was transfixed above all by the imperative of preventing...

15.12.2023 20

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Noam Chomsky at 95: Still speaking hard truths, still ignored by mainstream media

One of the rare times that Noam Chomsky’s name has been mentioned on a big national NPR program came two months ago. On “Weekend Edition” in...

15.12.2023 30

Salon

Norman Solomon

Want to Understand Israel-Palestine? Consume Noam Chomsky, Not Corporate Media

Over the decades and with few exceptions, in major U.S. media—notably unlike major media in most of the rest of the world—Chomsky has been persona...

12.12.2023 3

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

We Need a Transnational Uprising Against Reckless Escalation of the Arms Race

Forty years ago, across a dozen pages of The Nation, I was in a debate with the English historian E.P. Thompson about the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms...

10.12.2023 30

Truthout

Norman Solomon

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