A breakdown of Biden's new defense cabinet and what it means for war & peace. Who is Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Avril Haines, Lloyd Austin, and Linda Thomas-Greenfield? Abby Martin presents an Empire Files update.

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The Australien Government was not allowed to speak at the latest Climate Summit, so it made an ad about its climate policy instead – and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. More great satire from Juice Media.

The Australien Government was not allowed to speak at the latest Climate Summit, so it made an ad about its climate policy instead – and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. More great satire from Juice Media.

The Australien Government was not allowed to speak at the latest Climate Summit, so it made an ad about its climate policy instead – and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. More great satire from Juice Media.

Corporate Democrats see market economies as the future and love to see rich people get richer. The left wants a society where government is committed to health care, education, and housing as a human right. The question is, how can a progressive movement grow strong enough to force the Biden administration to deliver on a more democratic-socialist and non-militarist agenda? Norman Solomon on theAnalysis.news podcast with Paul Jay.

Corporate Democrats see market economies as the future and love to see rich people get richer. The left wants a society where government is committed to health care, education, and housing as a human right. The question is, how can a progressive movement grow strong enough to force the Biden administration to deliver on a more democratic-socialist and non-militarist agenda? Norman Solomon on theAnalysis.news podcast with Paul Jay.

Corporate Democrats see market economies as the future and love to see rich people get richer. The left wants a society where government is committed to health care, education, and housing as a human right. The question is, how can a progressive movement grow strong enough to force the Biden administration to deliver on a more democratic-socialist and non-militarist agenda? Norman Solomon on theAnalysis.news podcast with Paul Jay.  

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Paul Jay

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Norman Solomon is a tireless fighter for progressive values inside and outside the Democratic Party. He's written several columns recently about the fight to get Biden to, at the very least, not nominate warmongers to senior positions. You'd think that's not too much to ask. Or Wall Street hacks. Perhaps even nominate people that represent the almost ten million people who voted for Bernie Sanders and the three million who voted for Elizabeth Warren in the Democratic Party primaries.

Now joining us to analyze that class struggle in the Democratic Party is Norman Solomon. He's the author of a dozen books including War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death. Norman is the founder of the Institute for Public Accuracy. He's the co-founder and national director of the online organization Roots Action.org. And I would encourage you to check that out. It now has around 1.2 million active supporters in the U.S. He was elected as a Bernie Sanders delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 2016 and again in 2020, both times organizing as a coordinator of the independent Bernie Delegates Network.

Thanks for joining us, Norman.

Norman Solomon

Oh, a pleasure. Thanks, Paul.

Paul Jay

So, before we dig into some of the things you've been writing about -- the appointments Biden has still to do and has recently done, as well as this whole issue of taking up the struggle against corporate Democrats, as you call them -- let's just dig into this first question a little bit. I go back to Hillary Clinton on this one because I remember when she was on stage debating Bernie Sanders, she said, "Bernie and I really have the same objectives. We just have a different way of getting there."

They like to portray this whole fight with the left of the Democratic Party as if it's a difference of ideology. It's a difference of opinion on how you get to the same kinds of progressive values. The corporate Democrats like to describe themselves as progressives and so on. But I don't think this is so much a difference of ideology. I mean, it is. But it's also and more importantly a difference of economic interest about who these corporate Democrats represent. And I'm not sure that gets talked about enough in terms of what's going on in the Democratic Party. What's your take on that?

Norman Solomon

Corporate Democrats see market economies as the future and love to see rich people get richer. The left wants a society where government is committed to health care, education, and housing as a human right. The question is, how can a progressive movement grow strong enough to force the Biden administration to deliver on a more democratic-socialist and non-militarist agenda? Norman Solomon on theAnalysis.news podcast with Paul Jay.

Larry Kopald of The Carbon Underground says making soil healthy again, known as Regenerative Agriculture, the natural process of pulling carbon out of the atmosphere can help alleviate the climate crisis. On theAnalysis.news podcast with Paul Jay.