Norman Solomon: Washington's war-makers are in a bunker
Norman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His books include “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death.” He...
View ArticleSolomon: What Obama said--and what he meant--about climate change, war and...
By Norman SolomonNorman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His books include “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning...
View ArticleDick Meister: Honor a legendary organizer
Dick Meister, former labor editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, is co-author of A Long Time Coming: The Struggle to Unionize America's Farm Workers (Macmillan)There's still time, if you hurry, to...
View ArticleSolomon: Congress: End endless war and stop 'becoming the evil we deplore'
By Norman SolomonNorman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His books include “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning...
View ArticleSolomon: Three quarters of Progressive Caucus refuse to stand against cuts in...
Norman Solomon is the author of “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death.” He is the founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy and co-founder of...
View ArticleCalvin Trillin: The sip heard round the world
He sought to trash the Democrats.He'd rough then up for sure, but first heJust had to have a drink.Poor Rubio was dry and thirsty. Though pundits say his future's bright,Whatever life to him may...
View ArticleCalvin Trillin: Hacker unearths paintings by George W. Bush
To new artist George Bush (junior),We welcome you Greetings. Salaam.We're eager to see your depictionOf nukes stashed away by Saddam.Calvin Trillin: Deadline Poet: The Nation 3/4/2013)
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Norman Solomon: Ten years ago today: A warfare state of mind
Norman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His books include “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death.” He...
View ArticleCalvin Trillin: On Dennis Rodman and his pal Kim Jong-un in North Korea
Kim Jong-un, dictator of NorthKorea and BFF of Dennis Rodman,threatens to use nuclear weaponsagainst the United StatesNow Kim, who's the strangest of big bomb possessors,Says he'd use his nukes against...
View ArticleCalvin Trillin: One issue that seems to be getting bipartisan support in the...
When Cruz begins a crude bombard,He speaks with reckless disregard.So even those who share his viewsTend not to want to schmooze with Cruz.Calvin Trillin: Deadline Poet: The Nation4/8/2013
View ArticleNorman Solomon: Nominate Bradley Manning for the Nobel Peace prize!
Norman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His books include “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death.” He...
View ArticleSolomon: The Orwellian warfare state of carnage and doublethink
By Norman SolomonNorman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His books include “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning...
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Solomon: It's time to renounce the "war on terror"
By Norman Solomon Norman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His books include “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning...
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Don't vent, organize and "primary" a Democrat near you
By Norman SolomonNorman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His books include “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning...
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Dick Meister: We've suffered a great loss
Gerry Meister: 1935-2013She's gone, Gerry, the love of my life, my dearly beloved wife for 57 years. It's difficult at this time of deep mourning for me to think of Gerry except in the context of our...
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The Pulitzer Prize Board surrender – and how the New York Times blew the Ed...
Edward Kennedy at Anzio, 1944. He is the AP correspondent who broke the century's biggest story but was not Pulitzer quality.In the May 19, 1945 edition of the New Yorker magazine, the legendary press...
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Solomon: Obama in Plunderland: Down the corporate rabbit hole
By Norman SolomonNorman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His books include “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning...
View ArticleMemorial Day: Remembering the good old days in Rock Rapids, Iowa, circa 1940s...
Bruce B. Brugmann (Reprinted and updated by popular demand)When I was growing up in my hometown of Rock Rapids, Iowa, a farming community of 2,800 in the northwest corner of the state, Memorial Day...
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Solomon: Our twisted politics of grief
By Norman SolomonNorman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His books include “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning...
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Solomon: Bradley Manning is guilty of "aiding the enemy"--if the enemy is...
By Norman SolomonNorman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. Of all the charges against Bradley Manning, the most pernicious -- and...
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