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How the U.S. hid truths about the Gaza war

How the U.S. hid truths about the Gaza war

As Israel’s war on Gaza persisted, the explanations often echoed the post-9/11 rationales for the “war on terror”

18.01.2025 20

Salon

Norman Solomon

How US Media Hide Truths About the Gaza War

How US Media Hide Truths About the Gaza War
15.01.2025 5

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

How U.S. Media Hide Truths About the Gaza War

A few days before the end of 2024, the independent magazine  972 reported that “Israeli army forces stormed the Kamal Adwan Hospital compound in...

15.01.2025 40

CounterPunch

Norman Solomon

Genocidal President, Genocidal Politics

When news broke over the weekend that President Biden just approved an $8 billion deal for shipping weapons to Israel, a nameless...

08.01.2025 4

CounterPunch

Norman Solomon

The Genocidal Legacy of Joe Biden Will Not Be Forgotten

While Biden refused to acknowledge the ethnic cleansing and mass murder that he kept making possible with bombs and political support for...

06.01.2025 20

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Why I am suing my congressman — and you should, too

On the last day of 2024, the deputy general counsel for the House of Representatives formally accepted the delivery of a civil summons for two...

03.01.2025 3

Salon

Norman Solomon

Afghanistan: Now It Can Be Told, After All The Harm Has Been Done – OpEd

This week, the New York Times reported that the U.S. government made war in Afghanistan while helping to “recruit, train and pay for lawless bands...

28.12.2024 4

Eurasia Review

Norman Solomon

Now It Can Be Told... After All the Harm Has Been Done

Timing is crucial in media and politics—and never more so than when war is at stake. It’s completely unsatisfactory for journalists to toe the war...

26.12.2024 30

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

The Democratic Party Deserves Its Image as a Party of War

To explore possibilities for how that might change will require a candid assessment of how that image came into focus in the 21st century.

21.12.2024 4

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Omnicide Joe?

Before and after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022, Biden showed a distinct lack of interest in actual diplomacy to prevent the...

27.11.2024 10

CounterPunch

Norman Solomon

From Genocide Joe to Omnicide Joe

Whether heralded or reviled, Biden’s supposed restraint during the Ukraine war has steadily faded, with more and more dangerous escalation in its...

25.11.2024 30

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Choosing Rahm Emanuel as DNC Chair Would Drag the Party Backwards

If Emanuel ends up in the top DNC spot, the message will be that wealthy power brokers have fully recaptured the party.

21.11.2024 2

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Hope in a time of American fascism

When some leading thinkers at the London School of Economics saw fascism take hold in the 1930s, Oxford history professor Ben Jackson said in a...

17.11.2024 4

Salon

Norman Solomon

To Fight Billionaire-Backed Fascism, We Need Grit and Solidarity—Not Hope

This deeply perilous time requires realism—but not fatalism. In the worst of times, solidarity is most needed.

14.11.2024 1

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

This Is Not a Drill. Fascism Is on the Ballot

Rather than being for personal absolution, voting is a tool in the political toolbox—if the goal is to avert the worst and improve the chances for...

28.10.2024 20

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

What’s certain about results of the presidential election

While the name of the next president is unknown, some outcomes of the election can be foreseen. For instance:  Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris...

24.10.2024 1

Salon

Norman Solomon

What Progressives Already Know About the 2024 Election Results

A Trump presidency will push progressives back on our heels, in a dire defensive position as we fight to protect rights and programs won during...

22.10.2024 3

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Time for a United Front Against Trump and Realism About Harris

The policy that Harris has defended for the war on Gaza is despicable, yet she is the only candidate who can spare us from another Trump...

14.10.2024 4

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

"Escalation dominance" and the new nuclear threat: We face more than 1,000 Holocausts

Everything is at stake. Everything is at stake with nuclear weapons. While working as a nuclear war planner for the Kennedy administration, Daniel...

06.10.2024 20

Salon

Norman Solomon

“Escalation Dominance” . . . and the Prospect of More Than 1,000 Holocausts

As each day brings escalation toward a global nuclear inferno, standard-issue legislators on both sides of the aisle keep boosting the Pentagon...

01.10.2024 2

CounterPunch

Norman Solomon

The Threat of a 1,000 Holocausts Puts Everything at Stake

If a nuclear war happens, of course we won’t be around for any retrospective analysis. Or regrets. So, candid introspection is in a category of now...

01.10.2024 20

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Gaza Received Little Mention at Debate. Here’s What Trump and Harris Didn’t Say.

Kamala Harris won the debate. The banner headline across the top of the New York Times home page — “Harris Puts Trump on Defensive in Fierce Debate...

11.09.2024 3

Truthout

Norman Solomon

Undebatable: What Harris and Trump Could Not Say About Israel and Gaza

Kamala Harris won the debate. People being bombed in Gaza did not. The banner headline across the top of the New York Times home page -- “Harris...

11.09.2024 1

CounterPunch

Norman Solomon

How Corporate News Has Tried to Numb Americans to the Horrors in Gaza

As the Gaza war enters its 12th month with no end in sight, the ongoing horrors continue to be normalized in U.S. media and politics. The process...

11.09.2024 3

CounterPunch

Norman Solomon

How US Foreign Policy Affected Relations With Russia – OpEd

By Jonathan Power Two mistakes, committed on President Barack Obama’s watch, were the triggers for the end of the long post-Cold War period of good...

11.09.2024 2

Eurasia Review

Norman Solomon

60 Years After Lyndon Johnson’s ‘Daisy Ad,’ The Silence On Nuclear War Is Dangerous – OpEd

One evening in early September 1964, a frightening commercial jolted 50 million Americans who were partway through watching “Monday Night at the...

11.09.2024 2

Eurasia Review

Norman Solomon

60 Years After Lyndon Johnson’s “Daisy Ad,” the Silence on Nuclear War Is Dangerous

One evening in early September 1964, a frightening commercial jolted 50 million Americans who were partway through watching “Monday Night at the...

10.09.2024 10

CounterPunch

Norman Solomon

The Dangerous Silence on Nuclear War 60 Years After Famous 'Daisy Ad'​

When Harris delivered her acceptance speech in Chicago, it did not include the words “atomic” or “nuclear” at all.

09.09.2024 2

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Quashing dissent on campus is the norm

With nearly 18 million students on U.S. college campuses this fall, defenders of the war on Gaza don’t want to hear any backtalk. Silence is...

06.09.2024 2

Salon

Norman Solomon

Knowledge Is Power. Gaza War Supporters Don’t Want Students to Have Either

Silence is complicity, and that’s the way Israel’s allies like it.

05.09.2024 10

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Kamala Harris' dodging threatens to damage her campaign

 Time is running out for Kamala Harris to distance herself from U.S. policies that enable Israel to continue with mass murder and genocide in Gaza....

01.09.2024 10

Salon

Norman Solomon

Harris Refuses to Change Course on US Complicity With Israel's Genocide in Gaza

In CNN interview, the Democratic nominee stuck to echoing Biden’s rhetoric—calling for a ceasefire while dodging the reality that the U.S....

30.08.2024 3

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Biden's Cruel and Orwellian Remarks on Gaza at the DNC

A speech that denied the suffering of Palestinians was a journey into an alternative universe of political guile from a president who just six days...

20.08.2024 30

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

What got lost in the DNC's love fest for a lame duck

An observation from George Orwell — “those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future” — is...

20.08.2024 30

Salon

Norman Solomon

Is the Ghost of Hubert Humphrey Stalking Kamala Harris?

As a pivotal election neared, a candidate had to decide whether to keep supporting an unpopular war or speak out for a meaningful change. Humphrey...

15.08.2024 1

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

Rep. Cori Bush faces media smears, torrent of AIPAC cash, for speaking truth about Gaza

Soon after the Gaza war began 10 months ago, a prominent newspaper columnist denounced Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., under a headline declaring that...

02.08.2024 3

Salon

Norman Solomon

A Simple Question Those Who Smear Cori Bush Refuse to Answer

People like Kansas City Star editorial board member Melinda Henneberger are as cowardly as they are common.

01.08.2024 3

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon

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,...

24.07.2024 6

Common Dreams

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...

23.07.2024 5

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 3

Common Dreams

Norman Solomon