Author: Norman Solomon

By Norman Solomon The New York Times is hardly a progressive newspaper — but when it comes to the surveillance state and ongoing militarism of the Obama White House, the establishment’s “paper of record” puts MoveOn.org to shame. And so, the same day that the Times editorialized to excoriate President Obama for his latest betrayal of civil liberties, MoveOn…

News media should illuminate conflicts of interest, not embody them. But the owner of the Washington Post is now doing big business with the Central Intelligence Agency, while readers of the newspaper’s CIA coverage are left in the dark. The Post’s new owner, Jeff Bezos, is the founder and CEO of Amazon — which recently landed a $600 million…

Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar recently spoke with Solomon about press freedoms under attack in the US and UK and the changing nature of journalism. Bipasha Shom recorded this interview.

By Norman Solomon Every new revelation about the global reach of the National Security Agency underscores that the extremism of the surveillance state has reached gargantuan proportions. The Washington Post just reported that the NSA “is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world.” Documents provided by whistleblower…

By Norman Solomon and Abba A. Solomon More than ever, Israel is isolated from world opinion and the squishy entity known as “the international community.” The Israeli government keeps condemning the Iran nuclear deal, by any rational standard a positive step away from the threat of catastrophic war. In the short run, the belligerent responses…