HIROYUKI HAMADA—Our hearts, minds, brains, beliefs, values and norms have been colonized by the force that has built the enormous neo-feudal world of money and violence. That is what they have done to enforce the disparity among us, which really is an invisible global caste order. s to live as humans.
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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
One of the least mentioned soul crushing abuses of Capitalism is under unemployment, wasting the capacity for production to meet human need because the reason for investment under capitalism is maximizing profit, accumulating as much of the surplus value from workers possible. Imperialist control over poorer countries enables pillaging of the economies, enforces conditions of under development, under employment and exploitation. The same policies are now being implemented in what were developed capitalist economies. Shock Doctrine economic and social policy is creating under developed nation conditions in America. Including comprador working class of developed nations to support imperial extraction to… Read more »
This is a powerful article, both informative and poetic. “If we get together and use the creative energy that’s been used in hiding this fact, the economic resources necessary to hide this fact, the human resource of spy networks to hide this fact, the mental energy concocting propaganda journalism to hide this fact, the series of technological advancements to hide this fact, we can certainly manage to create a new world beyond the neo-feudalism.” But getting together is no longer the inauguration of shared vision. The vision is being blinded by a raw, unscrupulous exercise of power. Which means to… Read more »