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     Primaries offer opportunities. General elections bring imperatives — to defeat right-wing forces — and that's certainly true this time around.      The last two years of undue efforts to accommodate Republican leaders have ended up boosting — not countering — their momentum. My recent article Progressive Canaries in a Political Mine makes a case…

     War continues to escalate far away — in our names and with our tax dollars.      Early this month, on the ninth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, the Marin Independent Journal published my article War's Grim Echoes at Home.      About the inspiring new documentary on Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, The Most…

     At last — after more than 18 months of public forums, hearings, research and countless discussions in many parts of Marin and Sonoma counties — the Commission on a Green New Deal for the North Bay has issued a report. I've learned a lot as co-chair of the commission.      Release of the Green…

     * In Petaluma, progressives have a big stake in the city council campaigns of Teresa Barrett, Jason Davies and Gabe Kearney, and the mayoral candidacy of David Glass. The future direction of Petaluma's city government hangs in the balance.      * In Santa Rosa, I recently spoke at a fundraiser for Larry Haenel, and in…

By Norman Solomon Take it from David Axelrod. "Almost the entire Republican margin is based on the enthusiasm gap," the president's senior adviser said last week. "And if Democrats come out in the same turnout as Republicans, it's going to be a much different election." But we don't get to have a different election. After…