Author: Norman Solomon

By Norman Solomon With Election Day just three weeks off and voting already underway in some states, the race for president is down to the wire. Progressives could make the difference. While no one in their left mind plans to vote for the fascistic and unhinged Donald Trump, some say they won’t vote for Kamala…

By Norman Solomon Everything is at stake. Everything is at stake with nuclear weapons. While working as a nuclear war planner for the Kennedy administration, Daniel Ellsberg was shown a document calculating that a U.S. nuclear attack on communist countries would result in 600 million dead. As he put it later: “A hundred Holocausts.” That…

By Norman Solomon 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 Puts Trump on Defensive in Fierce Debate” — was accurate enough. But despite the good news for people understandably eager for Trump to be defeated,…

By Norman Solomon One evening in early September 1964, a frightening commercial jolted 50 million Americans who were partway through watching “Monday Night at the Movies” on NBC. The ad began with an adorable three-year-old girl counting petals as she pulled them from a daisy. Then came a man’s somber voiceover, counting down from ten…