Author: Norman Solomon

By Norman Solomon 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. The morning after Gen. David Petraeus appeared in a Sunday interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” to promote the war effort, the New York Times…

It scarcely seems to matter whether the Gibbs statements this week were a calculated new version of triangulation or an uncalculated declaration of attitude. Either way, the Obama White House is proving itself to be tone deaf — and self-destructive — in its approach to major sectors of the Democratic Party base that are to…

Six scary words: Governor Whitman. Senator Fiorina. Speaker Boehner.  Defeating the GOP is essential. And insufficient. We also need to move public policy in progressive directions. From Sacramento to Washington, the political anatomy of elected officials is crucial: Republicans are heartless. Disaster follows when Democrats are spineless.  During the past decade, boosts of the federal…

Friday, Aug. 20 at 7 p.m. — Point Reyes Station — Dance Palace Community Center, 503 B St. Norman will be a speaker at the “Versus not Versus” evening of “poetry in support of West Marin community unity.” The event will include a screening of the new documentary “Every War Has Two Losers” (based on…

On my way to the Los Alamos National Laboratory a few years ago, I found it listed in a New Mexico phone book—under "University of California." Since the early 1940s, UC has managed the nation's top laboratories for designing nuclear bombs. Today, California's public university system is still immersed in the nuclear weapons business. Sixty-five…