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Norman Solomon: How Corporate Democrats Led to the Trump Era

Corporate-friendly approaches by the Democratic Party set the stage for Trump’s faux “populism” as an imagined solution to the discontent that the corporatism of the Democrats had helped usher in.

October 24, 2025 · 2 Comments

George Yancy: How Should We Rethink Our Relationship to US Violence Around the World?

Democracy-destroying forces thrive off militarism. We have to resist both. A conversation with Norman Solomon.

March 21, 2025 · 4 Comments

Norman Solomon: War Culture Hates the Ethical Passion of the Young

In the Thrall of a Dominant Death Culture

May 10, 2024 · 1 Comment

Norman Solomon: Want to Understand Israel-Palestine? Consume Noam Chomsky, Not Corporate Media

“If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.”

December 15, 2023 · 4 Comments

Abby Zimet: A Hundred Eyes For An Eye

Humanism that unites people across ethnic and religious lines…An international left rooted in values that side with the child over the gun every single time, no matter whose gun and no matter whose child.

October 17, 2023 · 14 Comments

Norman Solomon: Bob Dylan and the Ukraine Crisis

I’ve learned to hate the Russians
All through my whole life
If another war comes
It’s them we must fight

February 23, 2022 · 7 Comments

Norman Solomon: Corporate Media Supports Anyone But Sanders or Warren

What’s at stake includes democracy—the informed consent of the governed—and so much more.

December 6, 2019 · 3 Comments

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