CAITLIN JOHNSTONE —This is insane. This man’s brain is eating itself alive and he’s still using his platform and popularity to help manufacture public support for escalations that make human extinction more likely. Nobody this close to death’s door has any business inflicting such horrors upon our species; it’s like he’s done with the world now so he’s ready to flush it down the toilet. This world is for the living; the half-dead have no business involving themselves in its affairs. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: John McCain should just die already if he loves death so much and leave life to the living.
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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