(1) In terms of its foreign policy the US has been criminal and fraudulent for at least 150 years, and counting. Its entire foreign policy, wrapped in Orwellian lies, is a long list of crimes. In the domestic arrea, the US had a highly defective (plutocrat-controlled democracy from the very start, with some degree of responsiveness to the public will due to its higher degree of class mobilization. Now that all of that has vanished, and that the media are 100% simply an instrument for the propaganda of the imperial plutocratic regime controlling Washington and its vast agencies of global destruction, domestic policy has also degenerated to a level that completely erases the notion of any democratic accountability or loyal representativeness in the halls of power.
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Parting shot—a word from the editors
The Best Definition of Donald Trump We Have Found
In his zeal to prove to his antagonists in the War Party that he is as bloodthirsty as their champion, Hillary Clinton, and more manly than Barack Obama, Trump seems to have gone “play-crazy” -- acting like an unpredictable maniac in order to terrorize the Russians into forcing some kind of dramatic concessions from their Syrian allies, or risk Armageddon.However, the “play-crazy” gambit can only work when the leader is, in real life, a disciplined and intelligent actor, who knows precisely what actual boundaries must not be crossed. That ain’t Donald Trump -- a pitifully shallow and ill-disciplined man, emotionally handicapped by obscene privilege and cognitively crippled by white American chauvinism. By pushing Trump into a corner and demanding that he display his most bellicose self, or be ceaselessly mocked as a “puppet” and minion of Russia, a lesser power, the War Party and its media and clandestine services have created a perfect storm of mayhem that may consume us all.— Glen Ford, Editor in Chief, Black Agenda Report