News stories by Norman Solomon

SAN FRANCISCO, USA, July 9 (IPS) - Whatever the outcomes of Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House on Monday and the latest scenario for a ceasefire in Gaza, a bilateral policy of genocide has united the Israeli and U.S. governments in a pact of literally breath-taking cruelty.

SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Jun 23 (IPS) - Twenty years ago, one day in June 2005, I talked with an Iranian man who was selling underwear at the Tehran Grand Bazaar. People all over the world want peace, he said, but governments won’t let them have it.

SAN FRANCISCO, USA, May 02 (IPS) - Eight years before the U.S.-backed regime in South Vietnam collapsed, I stood with high school friends at Manhattan’s Penn Station on the night of April 15, 1967, waiting for a train back to Washington after attending the era’s largest antiwar protest so far.

SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Mar 20 (IPS) - Israel’s renewed assault on Gaza comes several months after both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch issued reports concluding without equivocation that Israel was engaged in genocide. But very few members of Congress dare to acknowledge that reality, while their silence and denials scream out complicity.

SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Jan 14 (IPS) - A few days before the end of 2024, the independent magazine +972 reported that “Israeli army forces stormed the Kamal Adwan Hospital compound in Beit Lahiya, culminating a nearly week-long siege of the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza.”

SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Jan 07 (IPS) - When news broke over the weekend that President Biden just approved an $8 billion deal for shipping weapons to Israel, a nameless official vowed that “we will continue to provide the capabilities necessary for Israel's defense.” Following the reports last month from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch concluding that Israeli actions in Gaza are genocide, Biden’s decision was a new low for his presidency.

SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Oct 29 (IPS) - The conclusion that Donald Trump is a fascist has gone mainstream, gaining wide publicity and affirmation in recent weeks. Such understanding is a problem for Trump and his boosters.

SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Oct 07 (IPS) - Everything is at stake. Everything is at stake with nuclear weapons. While working as a nuclear war planner for the Kennedy administration, Daniel Ellsberg was shown a document calculating that a U.S. nuclear attack on communist countries would result in 600 million dead. As he put it later: "A hundred Holocausts."

SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Sep 10 (IPS) - One evening in early September 1964, a frightening commercial jolted 50 million Americans who were partway through watching "Monday Night at the Movies" on NBC. The ad began with an adorable three-year-old girl counting petals as she pulled them from a daisy. Then came a man's somber voiceover, counting down from ten to zero. Then an ominous roar and a mushroom cloud from a nuclear bomb explosion.

SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Sep 06 (IPS) - With nearly 18 million students on U.S. college campuses this fall, defenders of the war on Gaza don't want to hear any backtalk. Silence is complicity, and that's the way Israel's allies like it.