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Solomon: A Seat In Congress For The 99 Percent
Znet Article, May, 06 2012
Norman Solomon
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I'm convinced that the only way to beat corporate AstroTurf is genuine grassroots
Solomon: What Makes a Healthy Progressive Ecosystem
Znet Article, April, 24 2012
Norman Solomon
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Right now there is a tremendous awakening in this country about income inequality
Solomon: Uncle Sam Making Wrong Choices
Znet Article, December, 29 2011
Norman Solomon
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Our national funding priorities are out of whack. We must change them to revive our communities
Solomon: It’s Time to Close California’s Nuclear Power Plants
Znet Article, May, 01 2011
Norman Solomon
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In the wake of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown, we need a basic rethinking of the USA’s nuclear energy use and oversight
Cohen: A Time for Action -- Not Servility
Znet Article, January, 25 2011
Jeff Cohen
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While Washington pundits are talking up a new civility, many progressives are bracing for the old servility -- a bipartisanship that is servile to a corporate elite that is unquenchably greedy and more powerful than ever.
Solomon: Flares in the Political Dark
Znet Article, December, 26 2009
Norman Solomon
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The winter solstice of 2009 arrived as a grim metaphor for the current politics of healthcare, war and a lot more. “In a dark time,†wrote the poet Theodore Roethke, “the eye begins to see.â€
Solomon: The Next Phase of Healthcare Apartheid
Znet Article, November, 06 2009
Norman Solomon
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At this point, only spinners who've succumbed to their own vertigo could use the word "robust" to describe the public option in the healthcare bill that the House Democratic leadership has sent to the floor.
Solomon: When the Dead Have No Say
Znet Article, August, 13 2009
Norman Solomon
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Official Washington is buzzing about "metrics." Can the war in Afghanistan be successful?
Solomon: Beyond the Hype
Znet Article, July, 20 2009
Norman Solomon
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Media eulogies for Walter Cronkite -- including from progressive commentators -- rarely talk about his coverage of the Vietnam War before 1968. This obit omit is essential to the myth of Cronkite as a courageous truth-teller.
Solomon: Where the Money Goes
Znet Article, February, 27 2009
Norman Solomon
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Early this winter, the PBS "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" interviewed the medical director at a community clinic in Northern California. He recalled the sight of military equipment moving along railroad tracks next to his office. "I've joked with my c...
Solomon: Freeing Up Resources ... for More War
Znet Article, February, 25 2009
Norman Solomon
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Hours after President Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress, The New York Times printed the news that he plans to gradually withdraw "American combat forces" from Iraq during the next 18 months. The newspaper reported that the advantages o...
Solomon: A Mandate for Spreading the Wealth
Znet Article, November, 06 2008
Norman Solomon
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Two days before he lost the election, John McCain summarized what had become the central message of his campaign: “Redistribute the wealth, spread the wealth around -- we can’t do that.”
Solomon: Party Like It’s 1932: The Obama Option
Znet Article, April, 24 2008
Norman Solomon
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Seventy-six years ago, to many ears on the left, Franklin D. Roosevelt sounded way too much like a centrist. True, he was eloquent, and he’d generated enthusiasm in a Democratic base eager to evict Republicans from the White House. But his campaig...
Solomon: Warfare and Healthcare
Znet Article, March, 15 2008
Norman Solomon
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It’s kind of logical. In a pathological way...
Solomon: Edwards Reconsidered
Znet Article, January, 05 2008
Norman Solomon
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There have been good reasons not to support John Edwards for president. For years, his foreign-policy outlook has been a hodgepodge of insights and dangerous conventional wisdom; his health-care prescriptions have not taken the leap to single paye...
Solomon: Memoir Interview
Znet Article, December, 12 2007
Norman Solomon
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I was born in DC, and grew up in Maryland in what was at the time a New Deal community—Greenbelt, which is still there. We moved around a bit, and then when I was eight my family moved to Calcutta for a year and a half. After that I landed back in...
Solomon: How Sputnik contributed to the marriage of science and weaponry
Znet Article, October, 08 2007
Norman Solomon
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How Sputnik contributed to the marriage of science and weaponry
Solomon: Hooked on War: Thomas Friedman's Deadly Addiction
Znet Article, September, 08 2007
Norman Solomon
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Hooked on War: Thomas Friedman's Deadly Addiction
Solomon: From the Grave, a Senator Exposes Bloody Hands on Capitol Hill
Znet Article, July, 21 2007
Norman Solomon
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It was a chilling mome...
Solomon: A Bloody Media Mirror
Znet Article, July, 10 2007
Norman Solomon
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A Bloody Media Mirror
Solomon: Saddam's Unindicted Co-Conspirator: Donald Rumsfeld
Znet Article, November, 09 2006
Norman Solomon
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Saddam Hussein has received a death sentence for crimes he committed more than a year before Donald Rumsfeld shook his hand in Baghdad. Let's reach back into history and extract these facts:
Solomon: Iraq Is Not a Quagmire
Znet Article, October, 03 2006
Norman Solomon
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The uproar over Bob Woodward’s new book has intensified the media focus on a basic controversy that’s summed up this way: Is Iraq a quagmire? Like many other debates that flourish in American mass media, the standard answers on bo...
Solomon: Media Tall Tales for the Next War
Znet Article, September, 26 2006
Norman Solomon
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The Sept. 25 edition of Time magazine illustrates how the U.S. news media are gearing up for a military attack on Iran. The headline over the cover-story interview with Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is “A Date With a Dange...
Solomon: The Hollow Media Promise of Digital Technology
Znet Article, September, 21 2006
Norman Solomon
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This is the time of year when media campaigns for the latest digital products are apt to go into overdrive. Schools are back in session, and the holiday sales blitz is getting underway. For the latest computerized gizmos, that means an escalating ...
Solomon: Applauding While Lebanon Burns
Znet Article, July, 27 2006
Norman Solomon
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Syndicated columnist Richard Cohen declared in the Washington Post on July 25 that an-eye-for-an-eye would be a hopelessly wimpy policy for the Israeli government. "Anyone who knows anything about the Middle East knows that proportionality i...
Solomon: Their Barbarism, and Ours
Znet Article, June, 22 2006
Norman Solomon
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The Baghdad bureau chief of the New York Times could not have been any clearer. “The story really takes us back into the 8th century, a truly barbaric world,†John Burns said. He was speaking June 20 on the PBS “NewsH...
Solomon: Media Memorial Day
Znet Article, May, 29 2006
Norman Solomon
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People who are concerned about the state of the U.S. news media in2006 might pause to consider those who have lost their lives in the midst of journalistic neglect, avoidance and bias. We remember that while TV and radio news reports tell th...
Solomon: How Long Will MoveOn.org Fail to Oppose Bombing Iran?
Znet Article, April, 18 2006
Norman Solomon
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MoveOn.org sent out an email with the subject line “Don’t Nuke Iran†to three million people on April 12. ...
Solomon: The Lobby and the Bulldozer: Mearsheimer, Walt and Corrie
Znet Article, April, 15 2006
Norman Solomon
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Weeks after a British magazine published a long article by two American professors titled “The Israel Lobby,†the outrage continued to howl through mainstream U.S. media. A Los Angeles Times op-ed article by Council on Foreig...
Solomon: When War Crimes Are Impossible
Znet Article, April, 04 2006
Norman Solomon
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Is President Bush guilty of war crimes? To even ask the question is to go far beyond the boundaries of mainstream U.S. media. A few weeks ago, when a class of seniors at Parsippany High School in New Jersey prepared for a mock trial to assess...
