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By Norman Solomon In times of war, U.S. presidents have often talked about yearning for peace. But the last decade has brought a gradual shift in the rhetorical zeitgeist while a tacit assumption has taken hold — war must go on, one way or another. “I am continuing and I am increasing the search for…

Norman Solomon — the North Bay political activist who has been a leader of the region’s Green New Deal commission and the national Healthcare Not Warfare campaign — announced on Wednesday (April 13) that he has filed with the Federal Election Commission to run for Congress. He said that his name will be on the…

    With her usual precision, Molly Ivins commented: “If Will Rogers and Mother Jones had a baby, Jim Hightower would be that rambunctious child — mad as hell, with a sense of humor.”      Jim is the real deal – a progressive populist so compelling that he was chosen to be the finale guest on the…

By Norman Solomon On the edge of Capitol Hill, day after day, we heard wrenching testimony from people whose lives had been ravaged by the split atom. That was three decades ago. I was coordinating the National Citizens Hearings for Radiation Victims in 1980, one year after Three Mile Island. The voices came from uranium…