Norman Solomon

Truth, Consequences, and the Hopes of My Father: Daniel Ellsberg | Common Dreams In light of what was at stake, the chance of making a difference justified the risk, and at the end of the day, my father believed, that was a good way to use your life.

Wonderful that today @commondreams.org published the entire foreword by Daniel Ellsberg's eldest son Robert Ellsberg in "Truth and Consequence," the new book that compiles excerpts from 50 years of Dan's never-before-published writings.

YouTube video by Country Joe and the Fish - Topic The Fish Cheer / I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To Die Rag

And it's 1, 2, 3, what are we fighting for?
Don't ask them, they don't give a damn
Next stop is Iran

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As US Attacks Iran, Daniel Ellsberg Speaks to Us Once More | Common Dreams “There is a time when silence is a lie, when silence is complicity, and when silence betrays our troops, our country, and ourselves. We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of t...

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As US Attacks Iran, Daniel Ellsberg Speaks to Us Once More | Common Dreams “There is a time when silence is a lie, when silence is complicity, and when silence betrays our troops, our country, and ourselves. We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of t...

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YouTube video by Media Education Foundation MLK’s “Beyond Vietnam” — A Warning as the U.S. Goes to War with Iran

From the war on Vietnam to the war on Iran, these couple of minutes from Martin Luther King Jr. tell truth still being evaded and desecrated in official Washington. @repilhan.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @reprashida.govpeeps.us @gregcasar.bsky.social

‘Are you willing to fight back?’: Democrats ready to take on party’s old guard ahead of midterms After Zohran Mamdani’s upset, a new wave of challengers targets incumbents, driven by fury at Donald Trump

This article in @theguardian.com includes some thoughts from me as some corporate Democrats are in a panic about primary challenges from progressives: "a lot of Democratic incumbents in the House are like rotted fruit and they’re starting to fall."

Tell Congress: No War on Iran Another conflict could be catastrophic — potentially costing millions of lives, destabilizing the entire region, and risking further escalation. Our Representatives and Senators need to hear from us n...

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Wrong voters, wrong message: progressives’ autopsy lays bare Kamala Harris failures RootsAction report finds Harris courted moderates instead of working-class Democrats – and Gaza stance did not help

The DNC has refused to release its autopsy of the 2024 disaster.
Our @rootsaction.org team has released our own. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @pdamerica.bsky.social @democrats.org @justicedemocrats.com @ninaturner.bsky.social

Suppressed DNC Autopsy Found Biden Admin’s Support for Gaza Genocide Cost Harris Votes | Common Dreams One progressive advocacy group said the Democratic National Committee's 2024 postmortem "should be made public so Democrats can learn from past errors and win future elections."

Suppressed DNC Autopsy Found Biden Admin’s Support for Gaza Genocide Cost Harris Votes - coverage by @commondreams.org

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While the DNC suppresses its autopsy and what it knows about how Kamala Harris’s support for genocide in Gaza pushed voters away, RootsAction has published an honest appraisal of the Democrats’ missteps:
democraticautopsy.org

Gavin Newsom is much worse than you think The California governor's policy priorities undermine his Trump trolling — and his progressive credentials

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The Actual Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think | Common Dreams If you want a more progressive Democratic Party, the California governor ain't it.

My article out today as published by @commondreams.org . . . @ninaturner.bsky.social @pdamerica.bsky.social @ourreveastbay.bsky.social @ourrevolution.media

At NYT, Pretending You Don’t Know Makes You a Real Reporter Even when you have examples of people being shot down on video by federal agents, the paper has to pretend there's a valid case for justifying murder.

Insight from @fairmediawatch.bsky.social:

As Trump Uses Military to Threaten Democracy, NYT Declares Military Needs More Resources Devoting seven editorials to boosting the US military when the country’s own democracy is under threat, the Times reaffirmed its commitment to militarism.

The core of the outlook from New York Times ownership, as this illuminating @fairmediawatch.bsky.social article shows:

Labeling Kidnapping a ‘Capture,’ Media Legitimate Violation of International Law It’s misleading to use language like “capture” and “arrest,” which evoke the US upholding the law, to describe heavily armed US forces taking Maduro prisoner.

@fairmediawatch.bsky.social explaining the difference between euphemism and journalism:

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"Why Progressives Must Work Inside and Outside the Democratic Party" -- podcast interview with @rootsaction.org political director Sam Rosenthal, one of four episodes. @pdamerica.bsky.social @democrats.org @usprogressives.bsky.social @dflprogressives.bsky.social

The Blue Road to Trump Hell Get the new book "The Blue Road to Trump Hell" — available now as a FREE download.

If you haven't already downloaded your free copy of "The Blue Road to Trump Hell," I hope you'll take a look. @pdamerica.bsky.social @democraticpartyhq.bsky.social @democraticparty.bsky.social @cademocrats.bsky.social @progressivecaucus.bsky.social

‘Sometimes You Need a Dictator,’ Trump Says Following Threats to Cancel Election | Common Dreams "Sometimes you need a dictator," said President Donald Trump during a speech at Davos in front of a room of world leaders, just days after he threatened to "cancel" the 2026 election.

Not just a madman theory. Madman with methodical unhinged purposes.

To win, Democrats should chuck their leadership The first step in defeating Trump and MAGA is giving Schumer and Jeffries the boot

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Ending GOP Authoritarianism Will Require Overcoming the Democratic Leadership | Common Dreams The Democratic establishment shuns the progressive populism that’s vital to effectively counter bogus right-wing populism. And so, the fight to defeat the fascistic GOP and the fight to overcome the p...

My article today on @commondreams.org:

The Martin Luther King You Don’t See on TV It's become a TV ritual: Every year in mid-January, around the time of Martin Luther King's birthday, we get perfunctory network news reports about "the slain civil rights leader." The remarkable thin...

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YouTube video by RootsAction What To Do With The Democratic Establishment?

Here's a podcast I did with India Walton as we discussed the dire problems of the Democratic Party amid fascistic Republican politics:

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Silicon Valley Plots Against Ro Khanna After His Support for a Wealth Tax

Hell hath no fury like billionaires scorned.

Take action on Venezuela Will the U.S. government promote a free-for-all of terrorist attacks by a war machine masquerading as representative government? Or will Congress stand up to Trump? Email your Senate and House members...

The imperial ethos: We make the rules, we break the rules.
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“The Blue Road to Trump Hell”: Norm Solomon on “How Corporate Democrats Paved the Way for Autocracy” A new report from the grassroots organization RootsAction aims to do what a promised “autopsy” from the Democratic National Committee ultimately did not: publicly reckon with the failures of the Democ...

On @democracynow.org today . . . @pdamerica.bsky.social @justicedemocrats.com @ourrevolution.media

Why is the Democratic party hiding its 2024 autopsy report? | Norman Soloman If the DNC isn’t open and transparent about why they lost, then how can we be sure they will learn their lesson this time?

Why is the Democratic party hiding its 2024 autopsy report?

“It’s about protecting people who fucked up,” a DNC member told @normansolomon.bsky.social in @theguardian.com:

Why is the Democratic party hiding its 2024 autopsy report? | Norman Soloman If the DNC isn’t open and transparent about why they lost, then how can we be sure they will learn their lesson this time?

Here's my article out today . . . @rickperlstein.bsky.social @pdamerica.bsky.social @codepink.bsky.social @ourrevolution.media @occupydemocrats.bsky.social @fladems.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social @dncstaffunion.bsky.social @dataforprogress.org