Voices for Change

An interview with Norman Solomon, author, activist and cofounder/national coordinator of RootsAction.org.

Any Medicare for All is better than our present system.

All of this is like manna from heaven for the Islamic State, the more “pitiless” the better. Their dream is to live in a black-and-white world of utter religious and political clarity (and calamity), while engaging in what American pundits like to term a “clash of civilizations.”

The security breach at the military complex Y-12 sent shock waves through the national-security establishment. While the three Transform Now Plowshares activists faced federal sabotage charges and up to 30 years in prison, they were still out on bail and free to attend the congressional hearings prompted by their act of civil disobedience.

Robots are not our enemy – the corporate bosses, bankers and BSers who own robots are the ones doing this to us.

Division in any form, including nationalism, and competition go against human nature.

The assassination of a popular leader like Soleimani and the lack of evidence presented about imminent plots he was supposedly engaged in, may empower other countries to take similar actions in the future, a slippery slope indeed.

Have Democrats gone from “Yes we can,” to “We shouldn’t even try?"

We have seen these unimaginative scenarios so many times.

Donald Trump recently made a statement that if Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi were still around, or if Bashar al-Assad could be restored in Syria that the Middle East would be more stable. But he must be mistaken.