Norman Solomon
- "Ewww. Don't do it, Patrick. Don't do it. Dogs pee here." A woman was giv...
- The Pentagon wants Congress to shift $9.6 billion of this year’s Defense ...
- What the civil war in Syria has exposed is that the massive political and s...
- The Pentagon will ask Congress to approve about $79.5 billion for combat op...
- One of California’s great mysteries is the state’s governor, Jerry Brow...
- After years of mismanagement, the Tribune Company newspapers -- including t...
- Pentagon officials today claimed President Obama and future presidents have...
- They fanned out across the country from Los Angeles to Phoenix, Chicago, so...
- Under George W. Bush, it went after the NAACP, Greenpeace and even a libera...
- Here's who is buying America's democracy The spark that ignited tea party...
- The money swamp created by Citizens United: Dark Money, corporate shell gam...
- Since 2000 more than 50,000 manufacturing facilities in the U.S. have close...
- The Associated Press says the U.S. Department of Justice has secretly obtai...
- More Than 175 Members of Congress to be urged to Support Legislation ...
- The student loan burden is reaching crisis proportions. Young Americans are...
- A deeply flawed conventional wisdom is developing that despite warnings fro...
- A three-day boycott of the network protested a lack of coverage of the atta...
- The weak economy has caused people to postpone consumption of health care s...
- My mother went into paid work soon after my father’s clothing store was f...
- Calls for a war with Syria mounted yesterday, despite mass popular oppo...
- Hide & seek can be a fun game for kids, but when huge corporations play...
- The American Civil Liberties Union has obtained documents revealing that th...
- You see them in stores across our country and around the world: colorful an...
- Russia and the US have agreed to work towards convening an international co...
- You never know how popular you are, how smart you are, and how funny your j...
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Ten Years Ago and Today: A Warfare State of Mind
Written by Norman Solomon
On a plane circling Baghdad in gray dawn light, a little Iraqi girl quietly sang to herself in the next row. “When I start to wonder why I’m making this trip,” Sean Penn murmured to me, “I see that child and I remember what it’s about.”
Norman Solomon Issues Statement on Outcome of California’s Second Congressional District Election
Written by Norman Solomon for Congress
Democrat Norman Solomon has narrowed the vote margin with Republican Dan Roberts to only 172 votes throughout the six counties comprising California's 2nd Congressional District.
Fewer than 1,000 ballots remain to be counted in Sonoma County, the only county still tallying ballots in the district. While the 172-vote gap is expected to narrow still further as Sonoma County processes its final outstanding ballots, it has become numerically very unlikely Solomon will overtake Roberts as these few remaining ballots are tallied.
Solomon Closes Gap With Roberts By Nearly 60%, With More Than 17,000 Ballots Remaining To Be Counted In Ongoing Congressional District 2 Race
Written by Norman Solomon for Congress
Democrat Norman Solomon has reduced the raw vote count separating him and Republican Dan Roberts by nearly 60 percent in the two weeks since the June 5 primary election in California's 2nd Congressional District.
David and Goliath - How Progressives Can Beat Big Money In 2012
Written by Ben Zolno | Huffington Post
Leading up to this Tuesday, Norman Solomon, a popular author, activist, and California District 2 candidate hoping to win a seat occupied by retiring progressive Rep. Lynn Woolsey, has been betting that delivering a strong progressive message with down-to-earth humility is the right formula to earn people dollars -- money from the people who actually enter the booth, punch the chads, and proudly live with the consequences.
Would It Make a Difference to Progressives if Norman Solomon Goes to Congress?
Written by Robert Naiman | Common Dreams
A key paradox for progressives of our national political life goes something like this: everybody complains about Congress, but nobody does anything about it.
Norman Solomon’s Quest for Congress
Written by Theo Anderson | In These Times
The veteran activist and writer may become one of the most progressive people on Capitol Hill. Norman Solomon isn’t the typical candidate for Congress. And that’s a compliment – he might actually be one of the most promising candidates ever, from a progressive standpoint.
Solomon on Track to Be Top-Two Finisher in June Primary
Written by Solomon for Congress
Norman Solomon's campaign for California's new North Coast Congressional district (CA-02) released the results of the most recently conducted poll in the race, showing Solomon in second place in the 12-way contest, in which the top two finishers in June's primary election will advance to the November general election.
Congressional Candidate Norman Solomon on What Makes a Healthy Progressive Ecosystem
Written by Keane Bhatt, Truthout | Interview
Norman Solomon, a longtime activist and media scholar, first came under FBI scrutiny at the age of 14 for picketing a segregated apartment complex near his home in Maryland. In the following years, Solomon campaigned against nuclear weapons and warfare, spending a total of 40 days in jail for nonviolent civil disobedience. He is author of a dozen books and numerous op-eds that have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times, among other outlets. Currently, he has been engaged in a competitive campaign to represent Northern California's District 2 in the US House of Representatives.
Today's The Last Day Of The FEC Fundraising Quarter-- Have You Thought About Norman Solomon's Campaign?
Written by Howie Klein | Down With Tyranny
This week Glenn Greenwald made the case for 3 of the most spectacular candidates running for Congress, anywhere, Franke Wilmer (MT), Cecil Bothwell (NC) and Norman Solomon (CA).
Norman Solomon, Anti-War Progressive Running For Congress, Pledges To Serve As Obama's Foil
Written by Matt Sledge | Huff Post
California's North Coast is nearly synonymous with a New Age-y strand of progressivism. For two decades, Rep. Lynn Woolsey has represented it in Congress by denouncing the wars waged by both major parties' presidents:
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Jim McGovern's Constitutional Amendments To Repeal Citizens United Gain Steam On Reddit (VIDEO)
Written on Friday, 01 February 2013 20:05 Read more...
Democratic Massachusetts Rep. Jim McGovern last Tuesday proposed two Constitutional amendments on the House floor that would overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which lifted limits on political spending and unleashed a flood of funding into political organizations starting in 2010.
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U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern Introduces Two Constitutional Amendments To Overturn Citizens United
Written on Tuesday, 22 January 2013 20:31 Read more...
U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) today introduced two Constitutional amendments to overturn the Supreme Court’s decision in the Citizens United case, which unleashed a flood of corporate and special interest money into the American political system.
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'We the People’ Can Overturn Citizens United
Written on Saturday, 21 January 2012 18:29 Read more...
THE FIRST three words of the preamble of our Constitution are “We the People.’’ Two years ago today the US Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission upended that promising vision. Corporations — which do not have mouths, minds, or consciences — won a “free speech’’ right to spend unlimited money to influence elections.
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U.S. Rep. James McGovern Looks Ahead to New Term that Includes Western Mass
Written on Wednesday, 04 January 2012 14:39 Read more...
U.S. Rep. James P. McGovern said he will never forget a tip he received from an old boss about the way things work on Capitol Hill.