Calvin 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...
View ArticleSolomon: It's time to renounce the "war on terror"
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 ArticleDon'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...
View ArticleDick 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleSolomon: 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 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 was the...
View ArticleSolomon: 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...
View ArticleSolomon: 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...
View ArticleSolomon: An open letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Chair of the Senate...
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: Historic challenge to support the moral actions of Edward Snowden
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.”In...
View ArticleTonight: Watch Amy Goodman discuss NSA leaks on MSNBC's Chris Hayes show at...
Monday, June 10, 2013democracynow.orgTONIGHT: Watch Amy Goodman Discuss NSA Leaks on MSNBC's All In With Chris Hayes at 5:40 pm Watch Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman tonight at 5:40pm on MSNBC's All...
View ArticleBully for the ACLU! It went after the real lawbreakers
Scroll down to read the ACLU complaint in the New York Times storyFor me, the crucial question was not whether Edward J. Snowden broke the law but whether the U.S. government had broken the law in...
View ArticleThunder from West Portal: Quentin Kopp savages the Warriors' Embarcadero Wall...
(Scroll down to read Kopp's column from the Westside Observer) When then State Sen. Quentin Kopp was appointed to the bench in San Mateo County, some of his fellow judges took him out to lunch. “We...
View ArticleSolomon: Uncle Sam and Corporate Tech: Domestic Partners Raising Digital Big...
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: The pursuit of Edward Snowden: Washington in a rage, striving to run...
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: David Brooks, Tom Friedman, Bill Keller wish Snowden had just...
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...
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