JIM MILES, Distinguished Collaborator
Jim Miles is a Canadian educator living in British Columbia. He writes regularly about the Middle East and its militarization and economic subjugation. His concerns include the commodification of the world by corporate governance and the American government. He writes book reviews and opinion pieces which are published here, as well as in The Palestine Chronicle and Foreign Policy Journal. His work is widely distributed across the Internet.”
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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
In fact, one should recognize that Trump is the truth-sayer, that his so-called incompetence is but the sign of his entire lack of veneer. The reason why he is artificially hated, and it is amazing how well this has penetrated many (numb)skulls, is the fact that he lays bare all the hypocrisy, cruelty and greed of the US state. He and his cabal of neocon generals, corporate directors and hangers-on are exposing what has been so carefully hidden by the liars from Washington on through Obama, namely that the country never has escaped its pattern of conquest and pillage. No… Read more »
If only the official propaganda machine and the resulting consensus could for once own up to the utter venality of this country’s internal and external policies, it would be such a relief to its deluded citizens and the world that they would be able to deal rationally with the US and present problems. But surely this would be asking too much because self-delusion is one of humankind’s favorite pastimes.