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                              Autopsy: The Democratic Party in Crisis                                                                              by Norman Solomon  is the executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, the author of  War Made Invisible :  How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine , and a cofounder of  RootsAction.org . Jeff Cohen   is the founder of the media watch group FAIR and co-founder of RootsAction.org. Before the Democrats get carried away with the prosecution of Trump, they best go back in time and take a look at why they blew it in 2016 with Hillary Clinton.  My sense is that they haven’t learned a thing. While they might get rid of Trump ...

Appeal court overturns Manchester rape conviction of man who spent 17 years in jail Andrew Malkinson convicted in 2004 of raping woman left for dead on Salford motorway embankment Emily Dugan @emilydugan Wed 26 Jul 2023 11.51 EDT A man who spent 17 years in prison for rape has had his conviction overturned by the court of appeal. Andrew Malkinson was convicted in 2004 of raping a 33-year-old woman who was left for dead on a motorway embankment in Salford, Greater Manchester. After enduring two decades of being labelled a sex offender, Malkinson, 57, had his conviction quashed on Wednesday after a DNA breakthrough. Justice Holroyde, vice-president of the appeal court, said the appeal was allowed on the basis of the DNA evidence and reserved judgment on whether it would be allowed on other issues, including police disclosure. There was never any DNA linking Malkinson to the crime and he always insisted he was innocent , spending more than double the time in prison as a result. Hi...

  On August   1, 2023, a grand jury indicted  Trump in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia  on four charges: (1) conspiracy to defraud the United States ; (2) obstructing an official proceeding  related to the certification of the election results on January 6, 2021; (3) conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding; and (4) conspiracy against rights . The indictment mentioned six unnamed co-conspirators . It is Trump's third indictment and the first indictment against a U.S. president regarding actions while in office. Of course, Trump thinks he is innocent and, to no surprise, so do his followers. Nevertheless, the criminal charges against Trump, if found guilty, should put him in prison for the rest of his life. But more importantly, getting at the underlying pathology of this disaster is critical. And one of the persons who could best assist in trying to understand the attempt...