Author: Norman Solomon

By Norman Solomon “In a dark time,” poet Theodore Roethke wrote, “the eye begins to see.” No matter who wins the Democratic presidential nomination, many millions of people will refuse to unsee what has become all too clear. On the verge of spring 2020, we can see what we’re up against: **  A crowing media…

By Norman Solomon The night before Super Tuesday, Elizabeth Warren spoke to several thousand people in a quadrangle at East Los Angeles College. Much of her talk recounted the heroic actions of oppressed Latina workers who led the Justice for Janitors organization. Standing in the crowd, I was impressed with Warren’s eloquence as she praised…

By Norman Solomon For many years, corporate media outlets said it couldn’t be done. Now, they say it must not be. To the nation’s punditocracy — tacitly or overtly aligned with the nation’s oligarchy — nominating Bernie Sanders as the Democratic presidential candidate would be catastrophic. But the 17,000 people who jammed into the Los…

By Norman Solomon Soon after his distant third-place finish in the Nevada caucuses, Pete Buttigieg sent out a mass email saying that “Senator Sanders believes in an inflexible, ideological revolution that leaves out most Democrats, not to mention most Americans.” The blast depicted “the choice before us” in stark terms: “We can prioritize either ideological…

By Norman Solomon More than ever, Bernie Sanders is public enemy number one for power elites that thrive on economic injustice. The Bernie 2020 campaign is a direct threat to the undemocratic leverage that extremely wealthy individuals and huge corporations constantly exert on the political process. No wonder we’re now seeing so much anti-Bernie rage…