Norman Solomon

Balls by Nancy OhanianPolling by Survey USA shows any Democrat-- other than Steyer who ties him and Tulsi or Klobuchar who would lose-- would beat Trump. Head-to-head matchups among registered voters, although Bernie does the best against him:

I don’t want to imagine what kind of horrible cabinet a conservative like Biden-- or even Mayo Pete-- might select. Both represent the transpartisan status quo establishment and, as Biden, famously assured a roomful of Wall Street banksters as he kicked off his campaign, if he’s elected nothing would fundamentally change.

According to the corporate media, Bernie is moving up and is now ready to win. That is a warning in their establishment universe and, as Norman Solomon noted in his own warning, Here It Comes: Get Ready for a Stop-Bernie Onslaught Like You've Never Seen.

Make America Great Again-- But For Real This TimeBasically, Bernie began his career fighting for working families. Biden began his fighting for segregation.

Two ass-sucking Blue Dogs, Collin Peterson (MN) and Jeff Van Drew (NJ)-- who is expected to quit the Democratic Party and join the GOP-- have already announced they're voting against impeaching Trump. Next week we'll find how many fellow Blue Dogs they're dragging along with them.

Pretty decent debate last night. Elizabeth started off strong but in the end Bernie won. Biden was as pathetic as usual and I get more certain by the day that I would never vote for him-- and I was completely certain of that in 1980. Kamala was desperate, dishonest and hideous and ought to drop out this afternoon.

"The fight happening now for the Democratic presidential nomination," wrote Norman Solomon, "largely amounts to class warfare. And the forces that have triumphed in the past are outraged that they currently have to deal with progressive opposition from not one but two candidates...

"Let's face it," wrote Nick Lento on Facebook yesterday, "Mayor Pete is a Democratic version of Mitt Romney... corporate to the core." That's right. His corporateness defines him and oozes out of every pore. Pete is the ultimate product of McKinsey & Company, a real life, genuine nexus of evil on Planet Earth.

Politicians can label themselves any way they'd like and feel sure few people will challenge them. One of the most conservative Democrats to have served in the U.S. Senate in any of our lifetimes, Joe Biden, announced that he has "the most progressive record of anybody running" for the Democratic nomination. If the word "progressive" meant "conservative" that would be true.

by Sam HusseiniTwo-time Oscar nominee Keira Knightley is known for being in "period pieces" such as Pride and Prejudice, so her playing the lead in the new film Official Secrets, scheduled to be release in the U.S. this Friday, may seem odd at first. That is until one considers that the time span being depicted-- the early 2003 run-up to the invasion of Iraq-- is one of the most dramatic and consequential periods of modern human history.It is also one of the most poorly understood, in part because the story of Katharine Gun, played by Knightley, is so little known.