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 complacent if they had to dig…
President Biden: Learn the Names of Children You’ve Helped Israel to Murder
By Norman Solomon To: President Joe Biden You’ve often spoken of how much you care about children and how terrible it is when they’re murdered. “Too many schools, too many…
Unilateral Sanity Could Save the World
“Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced”
Time for a Transnational Uprising Against a Reckless Escalation of the Arms Race?
The specter of omnicide looms.
Norman Solomon: ‘The Madness of Militarism’
By Norman Solomon / Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy In this year’s Ellsberg Lecture, Norman Solomon reflects on what Martin Luther King Jr. called ‘the madness of militarism’ and…
‘Israel’s 9/11’ Is a Slogan to Rationalize Open-Ended Killing of Palestinian Civilians
By Norman Solomon / CounterPunch When Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations spoke outside the Security Council on Sunday, he said: “This is Israel’s 9/11. This is Israel’s 9/11.” Meanwhile,…
Norman Solomon: Biden Is the Latest President To Tout the Vietnam War as Proud History
By Norman Solomon / Original to ScheerPost When Joe Biden flew out of Hanoi last week, he was leaving a country where U.S. warfare caused roughly 3.8 million Vietnamese deaths.…
How to Ignore 4.5 Million Deaths
A review of Norman Solomon’s War Made Invisible.
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 and now.
The Wars We Don’t (Care to) See
Aggression Made Easy.
Daniel Ellsberg Has Foiled Those Who Want Him Confined to the Past
By Norman Solomon / CounterPunch In just a few words — “those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future” — George…
[Repost] The Liberal Contempt for Martin Luther King’s Final Year
The MLK tributes are sure to pour on the anniversary of the civil rights hero's death, but don't expect them to acknowledge his anti-militarist ideals.
How to Elect Progressives and Defeat Republicans in the Midterms
By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon Almost all the primaries are behind us now, and the current outlook is still grim for the midterm elections this fall. The semi-fascist Republican…
Nancy Pelosi’s Reckless Trip to Taiwan: A Decision That Could Get Us All Killed
Even the foreign policy mainstream thinks Pelosi's Taiwan trip is a dangerous gamble. Why won't Biden stop her?
Progressives Can’t Depend on the Congressional Progressive Caucus
By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon Sometimes one decision speaks volumes. And so it was when the Congressional Progressive Caucus — with 98 members in the House — recently chose…