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by Norman Solomon       Now what?      We need to build a grassroots progressive movement — wide, deep and strong enough to fight the right and challenge the corporate center of the Democratic Party.      The stakes are too high and crises too extreme to accept “moderate” accommodation to unending war, regressive taxation, massive unemployment,…

By Norman Solomon On Sunday, when the New York Times put a "tossup" label on three dozen House races with Democrats running for re-election, there were very few genuine progressives involved. In fact, just three of the lawmakers on the list are members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. And only one of them is a…

     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…