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- A Report Back from Afghanistan...
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Wednesday, September 9 at 7:00pm - Daniel Ellsberg and Norman Sol...
One-time online broadcast from www....
Wednesday, August 5 at 5:00pm - Daniel Ellsberg and Norman Sol...
www.KWMR.org -- streaming audio fro...
Wednesday, August 5 at 5:00pm - Daniel Ellsberg and Noman Solomon
City Hall, 1400 Fifth Ave., San Raf...
Wednesday, July 15 at 6:00pm - Daniel Ellsberg and Norman Sol...
San Rafael City Hall
Wednesday, July 15 at 6:00pm
Norman Solomon
Source: www.commondreams.org
This week begins with a significant new straw in the political wind for President Obama to consider. The California Democratic Party has just sent him a formal and clear message: Stop making war in Afghanistan.
Norman Solomon My article on today's splashing story about Ambassador Eikenberry's cables...
Source: www.commondreams.org
Disputes are raging within the Obama administration over how to continue the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan. A new leak tells us that Washington's ambassador in Kabul, former four-star general Karl Eikenberry, ...
Source: www.commondreams.org
At this point, only spinners who've succumbed to their own vertigo could use the word "robust" to describe the public option in the healthcare bill that the House Democratic leadership has sent to the floor.
Norman Solomon This article I wrote was published today in The Press Democrat, the daily paper based in Santa Rosa, California...
GUEST OPINION: One year later: Unrest within the Obama base | PressDemocrat.com | The Press Democrat
Source: www.pressdemocrat.com
On election night a year ago, celebrations across the North Bay included dancing in the streets. The voters had spoken loudly for Barack Obama, who won 74 percent of ballots in Sonoma County and 78 percent
Source: www.youtube.com
Norman Solomon, author and Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, visited Kabul a week after Afghanistan's disputed presidential election in August. Since then, a United Nations investigation found widespread fraud and a runoff election is scheduled for November 7th. ...
Norman Solomon Here's my take on the announcement of the "runoff election" now set for Afghanistan on November 7...
Source: pdamerica.org
Progressive Democrats of America supports a renewed nation, respectful of the rule of law at home and abroad, fully integrated into and respectful of the world of nations and peoples, and re-grounded on the universal values of human dignity, justice, and environmental sanity.
Norman Solomon What did we learn in Afghanistan? This half-hour radio documentary, airing nationwide in the next week, focuses on my traveling companion Rick Reyes. We traveled to Kabul together in late summer. Thanks to independent journalist Reese Erlich, an audio portrait of our journey can now be heard. (Just click below...)
Source: www.radioproject.org
Marine corporal Rick Reyes and other anti-war activists travel to Afghanistan to meet with government officials, women’s rights activists and ordinary Afghans. They talk to critics of both the U.S. government and the Karzai Administration.
Norman Solomon My column about Columbus Day...
Source: www.creators.com
Norman Solomon Opinion Columns - Rediscovering the Real Columbus
Norman Solomon A request for tax-deductible support: I founded the Institute for Public Accuracy a dozen years ago, and since then we've been working to get progressive voices into news media. (Details at www.accuracy.org.) Now IPA is facing a severe financial crisis. Please share the link below with anyone who might be able to help. Thanks a lot. http://www.accuracy.org/challenge.html
Source: www.accuracy.org
We are excited to announce that a donor has offered the Institute for Public Accuracy a $50,000 challenge grant. Now is the time for you to support IPA: every dollar you donate to help us meet our challenge grant will have twice as much impact at a time when we need it most. ...
Norman Solomon A few days ago I recorded a radio interview at the NPR affiliate in Sonoma County, California, talking about my recent visit to Kabul. Here's a link to the audio:
Norman Solomon I'll be talking with radio host Angie Coiro about the Afghanistan war on Tuesday, October 6, starting at 10:05 p.m. East Coast time.... If you're not in the San Francisco area (where it's on Green 960 AM Radio at 7:05 p.m. local time), just follow the link below and click on the "Listen Live" button near the top of the webpage...
Source: www.green960.com
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Source: www.commondreams.org
October 2009 has begun with the New York Times reporting that "the president, vice president and an array of cabinet secretaries, intelligence chiefs, generals, diplomats and advisers gathered in ...
Norman Solomon Here's a discussion I had with the intrepid and steadfastly progressive radio talk-show host Peter B. Collins...
Source: www.peterbcollins.com.podcast
Norman Solomon I appeared on Democracy Now this morning to talk about Afghanistan. Here's how the broadcast looked and sounded:
As Obama Escalates War in Afghanistan, US Peace Activists Call for Near-Term Withdrawal of Foreign T
Source: www.democracynow.org
The coming weeks hold critical significance for the US occupation of Afghanistan. The Senate is expected to vote on the Obama administration's $128 billion request to fund war operations in Afghanistan and Iraq for the coming fiscal year. ...
Norman Solomon Here's a link to video of my half-hour live appearance this morning on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" program, talking about my recent trip to Afghanistan and the current escalation of the war.
Source: www.c-span.org
