Have you heard the one about the U.S. government wanting a “rules-based international order”? It’s grimly laughable, but the nation’s media outlets…
Norman Solomon
The vast majority of Congress members have refused to call for a ceasefire in Gaza during three months of slaughter by Israel’s…
To: President Joe Biden You’ve often spoken of how much you care about children and how terrible it is when they’re murdered.…
Top American officials in the “national security” establishment are notably good at smooth rhetoric and convenient silences. Their scant regard for truth…
One of the rare times that Noam Chomsky’s name has been mentioned on a big national NPR program came two months ago.…
Forty years ago, across a dozen pages of The Nation, I was in a debate with the English historian E.P. Thompson about the…
Forty years ago, across a dozen pages of The Nation magazine, I was in a debate with the English historian E. P. Thompson about…
In this year’s Ellsberg Lecture, Norman Solomon reflects on what Martin Luther King Jr. called ‘the madness of militarism’ and offers an…
For U.S. mass media, Henry Kissinger’s quip that “power is the ultimate aphrodisiac” rang true. Influential reporters and pundits often expressed their…
Over the weekend, Politico published the latest in a tidal wave of stories about President Biden’s dwindling prospects for re-election. Under the…