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
The whole premise on which such debates as Russiagate are based is wrong, namely it assumes a priori that Russia is an antagonist. That is silently assumed to be true which always remains unproven. On the contrary it is the US and Western Europe that are aggressive enemies. Any debate even of interference, hostile acts etc. by Russia is spurious to the extreme. One might as well debate if the fine milk that cows produce is voluntarily given or not while the poor animal cannot escape its cruel fate. Many arguments are but smoke screens for crude propaganda that would… Read more »
Great display of a person that is carried by belief, rather than fact and what creates a vacuum in the aftermath of the debate. A vacuum because, exposing the fallacies will not move anybody who believes. Those that can be moved are those that base their outlook actual facts, and those they can obtain on themselves via the relevant media outlets or the internet at large.
But the recreational value was tremendous 🙂
Happy New Year.