Norman Solomon

When some leading thinkers at the London School of Economics saw fascism take hold in the 1930s, Oxford history professor Ben Jackson said in a recent BBC

Emanuel's response to the McDonald killing was emblematic of his arrogant leadership method, routinely clashing with the basic interests of racial minorities and the non-affluent. When Emanuel was nearing the end of his last term, The Nation magazine

If Emanuel ends up in the top DNC spot, the message will be that wealthy power brokers have fully recaptured the party.

A pair of quotes, separated by eight years, spotlight a chronic political mentality at the top of the Democratic Party:

After years of serving as enablers for a faltering President Joe Biden, Democrats in Congress must finally break away from his leadership — for the sake of their party and the survival of democracy in this country.

Before and after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022, Biden showed a distinct lack of interest in actual diplomacy to prevent the war or to end it. Three days before the invasion, writing in the Financial Times, Jeffrey Sachs pointed out: “Biden has said repeatedly that the U.S. is open to diplomacy with Russia, but on the issue that Moscow has most emphasized -- NATO enlargement -- there has been no American diplomacy at all. Putin has repeatedly demanded that the U.S. forswear NATO’s enlargement into Ukraine, while Biden has repeatedly asserted that membership of the alliance is Ukraine’s choice.”

The tragic conflicts between Israelis and Palestinians, more than 7,000 miles away, seem far removed from our lives here. Yet those conflicts have been disturbing to many in Marin County ever since the horrible attack by the Hamas terrorist group resulted in 1,200 Israeli deaths and the taking of nearly 250 hostages on Oct. 7, 2023.

The Democratic Party’s image as a war party has been shaped by President Biden’s support for Israel and Ukraine, as well as the revolving door between government officials and military …

To explore possibilities for how that might change will require a candid assessment of how that image came into focus in the 21st century.

Organizing together under the name Taxpayers Against Genocide , constituents served notice that no amount of rhetoric could make funding of genocide anything other than repugnant.