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- Sunday, May 06, 2012
ZNet Article I'm convinced that the only way to beat corporate AstroTurf is genuine grassroots -
- Tuesday, Apr 24, 2012
ZNet Article Right now there is a tremendous awakening in this country about income inequality -
- Thursday, Dec 29, 2011
ZNet Article Our national funding priorities are out of whack. We must change them to revive our communities -
- Wednesday, Nov 09, 2011
Video Interview on progressives mounting a challenge inside the Democratic Party -
- Saturday, May 28, 2011
Commentary A country that’s committed to being at war will treat the real potential for peace as an abstraction -
- Sunday, May 01, 2011
ZNet Article In the wake of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown, we need a basic rethinking of the USA’s nuclear energy use and oversight -
- Tuesday, Mar 15, 2011
Commentary Like every other president since the 1940s, Barack Obama has promoted nuclear power. -
- Thursday, Feb 17, 2011
Commentary A standard zigzag of political rhetoric went for a jaunt along Pennsylvania Avenue on Tuesday (Feb. 15) with a speech by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at George Washington University. -
- Tuesday, Jan 25, 2011
ZNet Article 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. -
- Monday, Dec 06, 2010
Commentary For the Obama presidency, moral collapse has taken on the appearance of craven clockwork, establishing a concentric pattern -- doing immense damage to economic security at home while ratcheting up warfare overseas. -
- Monday, Nov 29, 2010
Commentary Compared to the kind of secret cables that WikiLeaks has just shared with the world, everyday public statements from government officials are exercises in make-believe. -
- Thursday, Nov 04, 2010
Commentary We need to build a grassroots progressive movement, wide, deep and strong enough to fight the right and challenge the corporate center of the Democratic Party. -
- Sunday, Oct 17, 2010
Commentary Take it from David Axelrod. “Almost the entire Republican margin is based on the enthusiasm gap,” the president’s senior adviser said last week. “And if Democrats come out in the same turnout as Republicans, it’s going to be a much different elect... -
- Friday, Sep 24, 2010
Commentary Autumn 2010 is a time of disillusionment for many who deplore the USA’s current political trajectory. Some who’ve been active for progressive causes are now gravitating toward hope that individual actions -- in tandem with higher consciousness, mo... -
- Tuesday, Sep 21, 2010
Video In an interview with The Real News, Norman Solomon, a member the national advisory committee Progressive Democrats of America, said that rather than forsaking the Democratic party for grassroots progressive movements, the two should be used simult... -
- Monday, Sep 06, 2010
Commentary On the last night of August, the president used an Oval Office speech to boost a policy of perpetual war. -
- Tuesday, Aug 17, 2010
Commentary It’s already history. In mid-August 2010, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan launched a huge media campaign to prevent any substantial withdrawal of military forces the next summer. -
- Saturday, Jul 03, 2010
Commentary Every living senator voted Wednesday to approve Gen. David Petraeus as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan. -
- Thursday, Jun 24, 2010
Commentary When the wheels are coming off, it doesn’t do much good to change the driver. -
- Saturday, Jun 05, 2010
Commentary When Israel attacked the Gaza aid flotilla, Congresswoman Jane Harman was engaged in a parallel assault. Israel’s government relied on the efficacy of violence; Harman’s campaign was counting on the power of paid media. In both cases, the targets ... -
- Friday, Apr 02, 2010
Commentary President Obama has taken a further plunge into the kind of war abyss that consumed predecessors named Johnson, Nixon and Bush. -
- Friday, Mar 19, 2010
Commentary Not long ago, the most prominent supporters of the public option were touting it as essential for healthcare reform. Now, suddenly, it's incidental. -
- Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010
Commentary When the U.S. military began a major offensive in southern Afghanistan over Presidents Day weekend, the killing of children and other civilians was predictable. Lofty rhetoric aside, such deaths come with the territory of war and occupation. -
- Thursday, Jan 21, 2010
Commentary In his triumphant speech on election night, the next senator from Massachusetts should have thanked top Democrats in Washington for all they did to make his victory possible. -
- Saturday, Dec 26, 2009
ZNet Article 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.†-
- Saturday, Dec 12, 2009
Commentary Eloquence in Oslo cannot change the realities of war. -
- Sunday, Nov 22, 2009
Commentary Disputes are raging within the Obama administration over how to continue the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan. A new leak tells us that Washington’s ambassador in Kabul, former four-star general Karl Eikenberry, has cautioned against adding more t... -
- Tuesday, Nov 17, 2009
Commentary There's a significant new straw in the political wind for President Obama to consider. The California Democratic Party has just sent him a formal and clear message: Stop making war in Afghanistan -
- Friday, Nov 06, 2009
ZNet Article 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. -
- Friday, Oct 23, 2009
Commentary Almost eight years after choosing Hamid Karzai to head the Afghan government, Uncle Sam would like to give him a pink slip. But it’s not easy. And the grim fiasco of Afghanistan’s last election is shadowing the next. - All Most Recent Content
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- Wednesday, Nov 09, 2011
Video Interview on progressives mounting a challenge inside the Democratic Party -
- Tuesday, Sep 21, 2010
Video In an interview with The Real News, Norman Solomon, a member the national advisory committee Progressive Democrats of America, said that rather than forsaking the Democratic party for grassroots progressive movements, the two should be used simult... -
- Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Video When The New York Times published its explosive "Pentagon Pundits" story on April 20, the result was a wave of criticism directed at the Defense Department for manipulating TV news coverage of the Iraq war. Critics also faulted the networks for fa... -
- Friday, Feb 22, 2008
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- Tuesday, Oct 23, 2007
Video Norman Solomon discusses how our government has sold us on war, and, with the help of the corporate media, will continue to do so. Healdsburg, CA 9/6/07 Video "We're a society devoted to killing and being killed and the U.S. warfare state will continue to thrive well beyond 2008." Norman Solomon, Healdsburg, CA 9/6/07 - All Recent Video
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