Voices for Change

“Every day, there’s yet another abuse.” The wanton attack on public schools is one of America’s biggest tragedies.

Israel's latest land-grab in Syria, and the UN and the rest of the world's inability to stop Israel from ignoring and violating the UN Charter, the Geneva Conventions and the Genocide Convention.

The thousands of Michigan children who were knowingly poisoned were victims of an American moral malaise: Our nation has bred generations of bureaucrats who are blind to values other than self-advancement and profit.

Regulation is not the enemy of incentive, invention, or innovation. Nor is it incompatible with progress, profits, or personal gain.

We are in the midst of an existential political crisis, one that too many Americans blithely shrug off because they do not—or cannot—believe the kind of power seizures, purges, and police-state repression that has happened in many other countries can ever happen here.

Silicon Valley’s wealthy elites have been secretly buying up land in one of California’s poorest counties to build a new city from the ground up. Who will stop them?

This article is adapted from the new edition of Norman Solomon’s book “Made Love, Got War,” just published as a free e-book.

“It’s all about building power. That has to be our goal: to build power, to take office, and to create a movement that can’t be ignored.”

I can’t remember who recently said it, but the point has been made that we often call people heroes because it’s easier to sacrifice them when they’re given this honorific and simply move on.

As the latest heat records indicate, we are, for the first time, on a planet in decline. And if that isn’t uncharted territory, what is?