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  • Jews and Israel Are Not the Same. Equating Them Is a Propaganda Technique

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    By Norman Solomon / The Guardian More than nine months after Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch issued reports that concluded Israel was committing genocide – and more than a month since key Israeli human rights groups asserted the same – the American political establishment remains in rigid denial while horrors continue nonstop in Gaza. Virtually all Republicans and most Democrats in…

  • From Guernica to Gaza, Mass Killers Have Been Above It All

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    By Norman Solomon / TomDispatch Killing from the sky has long offered the sort of detachment that warfare on the ground can’t match. Far from its victims, air power remains the height of modernity. And yet, as the monk Thomas Merton concluded in a poem, using the voice of a Nazi commandant, “Do not think yourself better because…

  • DNC Leaders Are Pretending That U.S. Weapons Don’t Enable the Slaughter in Gaza

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    By Norman Solomon This week will go down in history as a time when the governing body of the Democratic Party had a chance to oppose the U.S. government’s arming of Israel. But with the first Democratic National Committee meeting in seven months getting underway on Monday, the DNC’s leadership is determined to derail a…

  • Democrats Should Give Peace a Chance in Ukraine

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    By Norman Solomon / The Hill After three and a half years of carnage in Ukraine, the meeting expected soon between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin is an opportunity to finally find a peaceful solution to a terrible war. Genuine diplomacy to end the bloodshed is long overdue. Up to 100,000 Ukrainians are estimated to have been killed, many of…

  • Kamala Harris Should Not Run for President in 2028

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    By Norman Solomon / The Hill The news that former Vice President Kamala Harris has decided to forgo running for governor of California next year is a clear sign that she is serious about a campaign for president in 2028. Harris would certainly go into the primary season with advantages. But she has proven to be notably tone-deaf in…