Author: Norman Solomon
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It’s Time for Progressives to Unite Against the Fascistic Republican Party
By Norman Solomon Six months ago, people on the left in France faced a crucial choice. None of their candidates had gotten enough votes to make it into the presidential runoff election. On the upcoming ballot were the neoliberal president Emmanuel Macron and the neofascist challenger Marine Le Pen, who had trailed the incumbent in…
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Interview on “Democracy Now!” — October 18, 2022
Activists Demand World Leaders “Defuse Nuclear War” As nuclear powers ratchet up tensions around the Ukraine war, the U.S., NATO and Russia are carrying out nuclear war games. “The Kremlin is making nuclear threats that are completely reckless. At the same time, there are things that the U.S. government can and should do that would reduce the…
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Don’t Just Worry About Nuclear War — Do Something to Help Prevent It
By Norman Solomon This is an emergency. Right now, we’re closer to a cataclysmic nuclear war than at any other time since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. One assessment after another has said the current situation is even more dangerous. Yet few members of Congress are advocating for any steps that the U.S. government could take to decrease…
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Steps Left for Electing Progressives and Defeating Republicans in the Midterms
By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon Almost all the primaries are behind us now, and the current outlook is still grim for the midterm elections this fall. The semi-fascist Republican Party is very well-positioned to win control of the House and has a decent chance of also gaining a majority in the Senate. But demagoguery…
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Nancy Pelosi Could Get Us All Killed
By Norman Solomon The arrogance of power is especially ominous and despicable when a government leader risks huge numbers of lives in order to make a provocative move on the world’s geopolitical chessboard. Nancy Pelosi’s plan to visit Taiwan is in that category. Thanks to her, the chances of a military confrontation between China and…