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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.

India Walton and Nina Turner (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Salwan Georges/The Washington Post/Alana Adetola Arts Photography)

The empire strikes back: Mainstream Dems try to crush the left in Buffalo and Cleveland

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Nina Turner speaks at a campaign rally for Sen. Bernie Sanders in South Carolina on Feb. 26, 2020. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Corporate Democrats are scrambling to keep Nina Turner out of Congress

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Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The Biden-Putin summit and the high cost of Democrats’ new cold war

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Roxie Washington, the mother of George Floyd's daughter Gianna Floyd, Joe Biden and Rahm Emanuel (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Biden’s eloquence with Floyd family will ring hollow if he gives Rahm Emanuel a key job

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Smoke rise after an Israeli air-strike hits at Al-Jalaa tower, which houses apartments and several media outlets, including The Associated Press and Al Jazeera, amid the escalating flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian violence. (Mohammed Talatene/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Why Israel attacks media offices and targets journalists: To keep us in the dark

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Pramila Jayapal and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Grade inflation: Does Biden deserve an “A” from progressives? Let’s get real

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A US soldier holds the national flag ahead of a handover ceremony at Leatherneck Camp in Lashkar Gah in the Afghan province of Helmand on April 29, 2017. US Marines returned to Afghanistan's volatile Helmand April 29, where American troops faced heated fighting until NATO's combat mission ended in 2014, as embattled Afghan security forces struggle to beat back the resurgent Taliban. The deployment of some 300 Marines to the poppy-growing southern province came one day after the militants announced the launch of their "spring offensive", and as the Trump administration seeks to craft a new strategy in Afghanistan. (WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Whatever Joe Biden says, the U.S. endless war in Afghanistan will keep going

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin urgently need to hold a summit meeting — and soon

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Former White House Chief of Staff and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel visits WSJ at Large with Gerry Baker at Fox Business Network studios (Steven Ferdman/Getty Images)

Uber-corporate Democrat Rahm Emanuel as a top U.S. diplomat? Oh, hell no

Jeff Cohen, Norman Solomon
Neera Tanden, nominee for Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), testifies at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Budget Committee on February 10, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. Tanden helped found the Center for American Progress, a policy research and advocacy organization and has held senior advisory positions in Democratic politics since the Clinton administration. (Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images)

Republican hypocrisy is not a good reason to support Neera Tanden

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Gavin Newsom and Andrew Cuomo (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Cuomo and Newsom symbolize corporate Democrat rot — and the need for progressive populism

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Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon (Getty Images/Salon)

What’s an “impeachable” crime — and what isn’t? History offers some dark lessons

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U.S. President Joe Biden walks to the White House residence upon exiting Marine One on January 29, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Biden traveled to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to visit with wounded service members. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Joe Biden’s first weeks offer encouraging signs — but don’t grade him on a curve

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President Joe Biden speaks during the the 59th inaugural ceremony on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. During today's inauguration ceremony Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States. (Patrick Semansky-Pool/Getty Images)

President Joe Biden offers us reasons for hope, at last — but hope can be hazardous

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Pete Buttigieg (Kevin Lamarque-Pool/Getty Images)

From the desk of Pete Buttigieg (corrected)

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Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden and the progressive movement: A winter of discontent

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Michèle Flournoy and Lloyd Austin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How Michèle Flournoy’s Pentagon dreams collapsed: Progressives fought back

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Michele Flournoy and Tony Blinken (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why some liberals and arms-control experts are backing war profiteers for Biden’s Cabinet

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Joe Biden and Rashida Tlaib (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Corporate Democrats are to blame for the party’s losses — so naturally they’re blaming the left

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Joe BIden, Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Progressives made Trump’s defeat possible — now it’s time to challenge Joe Biden

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Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Joe Biden gestures during a campaign stop outside Johnstown Train Station September 30, 2020 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Defeat Trump first — then push Biden to the left

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Vice President Mike Pence (Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images)

The man who would be president: Mike Pence, corporate theocrat

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a briefing at the White House August 13, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump spoke on a range of topics including his announcement earlier in the day of a new peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Four years ago, we warned progressives Trump could win. Now we’re warning you again

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A protestor holds a Black Lives Matter placard (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Corporate media is focusing on racism at last — but ducking economic injustice

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