Author: Norman Solomon

[This article was originally published by Truthdig.] By Norman Solomon The evidence is damning. And the silence underscores the arrogance. More than seven weeks after a devastating report from the media watch group FAIR, top executives and prime-time anchors at MSNBC still refuse to discuss how the network’s obsession with Russia has thrown minimal journalistic…

[This article was originally published by The Nation.] By Norman Solomon After Robert Parry died on January 27, I asked another great investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh, for some words. “I ran into Bob more than three decades ago when he was the first to warn of the Iran/Contra affair, to little avail,” Investigative journalist Robert Parry…

By Norman Solomon Sometimes a party’s leader seems to symbolize an enduring malaise. For Democrats in 2018, that institutional leader is Tom Perez.  While serving as secretary of labor during President Obama’s second term, Perez gained a reputation as an advocate for workers and civil rights. That image may have helped him win a narrow…

By Norman Solomon The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Ben Cardin, has become a big star in national media by routinely denouncing Russia as a dire threat to American democracy. The senior senator from Maryland personifies the highly dangerous opportunism that has set in among leading Democrats on the subject of Russia.…

[This article was originally published by Truthdig.] By Norman Solomon Oligarchy prevents democracy. That explains the gist of why the United States became more undemocratic in 2017. With vast income inequality and corporate power, this country’s oligarchy keeps consolidating itself — largely hidden in plain sight — normalized and embossed on the wallpaper of mass-media echo…