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Norman Solomon

Norman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction and founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. He is the author of many books, including "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death." His latest book, "War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine," was published in June 2023 with a new afterword about the Gaza war in autumn 2024.

A protester holds a US flag and a placard during a nationwide "No Kings" rally in Louisville, Kentucky, on June 14, 2025 (LEANDRO LOZADA/AFP via Getty Images)

“No Kings” should be just the beginning

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) at the U.S. Capitol Building on December 08, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

How low will Democrats sink before the DNC acts?

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks with Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) during a news conference with House Democrats about the Build Back Better legislation, outside of the U.S. Capitol on November 17, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Democrats won’t change until the left does

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March on Washington | Black Live Matter Protest | Mass demonstration against the Vietnam war (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

From Vietnam to Gaza: War shatters illusions about US leadership

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) listens during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol Building following passage in the House of a 45-day continuing resolution on September 30, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

A primary motivation: Democrats due for a reality check on priorities

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC, on January 14, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

How the U.S. hid truths about the Gaza war

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Protestors demonstrate on Capitol Hill on July 24, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Michael A. McCoy/Getty Images)

Why I am suing my congressman — and you should, too

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Former President Donald Trump boards his airplane, known as "Trump Force One," as he heads to speak at campaign events in GA and NC, at Newark Liberty International Airport on Saturday, June 10, 2023, in Newark, NJ. (Photo edit by Salon/Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Hope in a time of American fascism

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Antifa members (Getty/Photo Montage by Salon)

No time for fatalism: The left must unite to fight fascism

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US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris shakes hands with former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as former Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg and US President Joe Bidenl ook on during a remembrance ceremony on the 23rd anniversary of the September 11 terror attack on the World Trade Center. (Photo by Adam GRAY / AFP) (Getty Images)

What’s certain about results of the presidential election

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Nuclear Weapons Pointed At Each Other Over Earth (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“Escalation dominance” and the new nuclear threat: We face more than 1,000 Holocausts

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Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris greet as they debate for the first time during the presidential election campaign at The National Constitution Center on September 10, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Undebatable: What Harris and Trump left unsaid indicts us all

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Students and pro-Palestinian activists face police as they gather outside of Columbia University to protest the university's stance on Israel on April 18, 2024 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Quashing dissent on campus is the norm

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US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a moderated conversation with former Trump administration national security official Olivia Troye and former Republican voter Amanda Stratton on July 17, 2024 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. (Chris duMond/Getty Images)

Kamala Harris’ dodging threatens to damage her campaign

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US President Joe Biden speaks on economics during the Vote To Live Properity Summit at the College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 16, 2024. (KENT NISHIMURA/AFP via Getty Images)

What got lost in the DNC’s love fest for a lame duck

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Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., leaves a meeting of the House Democratic Caucus about the candidacy of President Joe Biden at the Democratic National Committee on Tuesday, July 9, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Rep. Cori Bush faces media smears, torrent of AIPAC cash, for speaking truth about Gaza

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Josh Shapiro and Kamala Harris (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Picking Josh Shapiro could be dangerous for Harris — here’s why

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U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting about countering the flow of fentanyl into the United States, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House November 21, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

An attempt on Donald Trump’s life should be a wake-up call for the Democratic Party

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President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden walk out of the South Portico towards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on November 11, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Who you gonna believe, Biden loyalists or your own eyes and ears?

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Former middle school principal Jamaal Bowman speaks during an interview with a reporter outside a subway station on June 17, 2020 in the Bronx borough of New York City. (Jeenah Moon/Getty Images)

Jamaal Bowman was beat by a toxic blend of militarism and Zionism

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The Pentagon, missiles, Ukraine and Gaza destruction (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Gruesome hypocrisy of US foreign policy being exposed in Gaza, Ukraine

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Demonstrators hold US and Israeli flags during a rally in Central Park marking 150 days since hostages were taken in attack on Israel on March 10, 2024 in New York City. (Noam Galai/Getty Images)

Amid the Gaza crisis, liberal American Zionism hits a dead end

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The New York Times Building is seen in New York City on February 4, 2021. (DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images)

When an escalation in war isn’t newsworthy to the New York Times

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Jonathan Glazer accepts the Best International Feature Film award for "The Zone of Interest" at the 96th Annual Oscars held at Dolby Theatre on March 10, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Rich Polk/Variety via Getty Images)

Hollywood’s backlash to Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar speech only proves his point

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