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  • Victims Without Victimizers

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    By Norman Solomon / TomDispatch The human condition includes a vast array of unavoidable misfortunes. But what about the preventable ones? Shouldn’t the United States provide for the basic needs of its people? Such questions get distinctly short shrift in the dominant political narratives. When someone can’t make ends meet and suffers dire consequences, the…

  • When It Comes to Political Evasions, Kamala Harris Has Written the Book

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    By Norman Solomon / The Hill The new book by Kamala Harris, released today, is not only an instant bestseller. “107 Days” is also a launchpad for the former vice president to reach millions of voters likely to see her on presidential primary ballots in 2028. During the next few weeks, the book will combine with…

  • Jews and Israel Are Not the Same. Equating Them Is a Propaganda Technique

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    By Norman Solomon / The Guardian More than nine months after Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch issued reports that concluded Israel was committing genocide – and more than a month since key Israeli human rights groups asserted the same – the American political establishment remains in rigid denial while horrors continue nonstop in Gaza. Virtually all Republicans and most Democrats in…

  • From Guernica to Gaza, Mass Killers Have Been Above It All

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    By Norman Solomon / TomDispatch Killing from the sky has long offered the sort of detachment that warfare on the ground can’t match. Far from its victims, air power remains the height of modernity. And yet, as the monk Thomas Merton concluded in a poem, using the voice of a Nazi commandant, “Do not think yourself better because…

  • DNC Leaders Are Pretending That U.S. Weapons Don’t Enable the Slaughter in Gaza

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    By Norman Solomon This week will go down in history as a time when the governing body of the Democratic Party had a chance to oppose the U.S. government’s arming of Israel. But with the first Democratic National Committee meeting in seven months getting underway on Monday, the DNC’s leadership is determined to derail a…