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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
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Oh, Mr. Koenig!
I recall rubbing my eyes in disbelief, when I discovered Mr. Stephen Lendman’s articles on OpEd News … “A businessman can write like this ?!”. More recently, on TGP, the same shock: “An economist from WB can write like that ?”
Today, Mr. Koenig reaches new heights (in my eyes): the first (I ever see) to point out one little detail, after enthusiastically talking about Korean reunification – what kind of Korea would that be ?
“Under what type of regime would a united North-South Korea function? A hard-core socialism, DPRK style, a Seoul type capitalism, with a soft Moon Jae-in touch, or a Chinese type socialism with a capitalist coating, yet controlled by a centralized socialist party? – Difficult to predict at this point, but given Korea’s historic link to Manchuria, to both today’s China and Russia, it would likely be a political model of social sensitivity.”
Can it really be anything other than a “democracy” ? Isn’t this tiny detail the one which has delayed reunification for decades ? Are the Korean masses so strong as to impose something else, other than “democracy” ?!
On the other hand …
“The US table tennis team was in Nagoya, Japan, in 1971 for the 31st World Table Tennis Championship, when in April 1971 the team received an invitation to visit Beijing. Hence started a diplomatic journey which later opened the (flood) gates for an immense, intense and at times controversial trade relationship between Washington and Beijing. For the PRC sports played an important diplomatic role, reflected in the slogan “Friendship First, Competition Second”.”
I do recall this World Championship, I think … Wasn’t it the one in which Forest Gump was part of the US Dream Team ? How did it end ? In any case, we may have been lied to, namely that we’d been among the peace brokers, back then!
“The two Koreans may have seized the opportunity to fulfill their highest goal, to become one again, bringing their families together in a lasting way; initiating a movement of joy and harmony; a new era of unification that cannot be broken. This is fully in line with the Buddhist preachings of love, still deeply enshrined in the two Koreas.”
Hmmm …
Sir, modern physics (quantum stuff) seems to be saying that anything can be broken, with the proper amount of (arm)twisting. Even worse: I think it says it has a hard time defining the impossible!
“The Olympic committee is a puppet of the same league as are the United Nations, the European Union and all the international courts. For what reasons? – I can only think of cowardice. That’s what globalized neoliberalism has made us – afraid of sanctions, afraid to stand up for justice and instead subservient to integrity. That’s greed above ethics.”
Here Mr. Koenig seems to be saying sanctions are of the order of magnitude of having one’s hot water cut off …
“instead subservient to … INTEGRITY” ?! I didn’t get that at all.
All in all … impressive!
How about some article on the merits of scientists in the overwhelming success of democracy all over the world ? (Since when are they siding with the masses, though ?!)
REPLY TO COMMENTER “A.D.”
You are right that the sentence as originally printed did not make sense. It was a typo, since corrected. The line should read as follows:
Thank you!
I could not have seen that far, I only suspected it – but it was hard to imagine how such a typo could happen.
This article is certainly hopeful and were it on display in a rational world with rational actors, we could draw much inspiration from this vision of contagious bridge-building and cooperation. The problem is that the U.S. has very few rational actors in decision-making positions anymore, not rational actors who can embrace basic concepts like mutual respect, empathy, power sharing, cultural and political multilateralism. We hear words from our leaders which are designed to lead us to believe that America’s leadership in the world is based on noble, time-honored values, that we are a principled nation operating from a high moral ground. But the truth is America’s relationship to other nations is about power, the ruthless, savage, inhumane, lethal application of raw power. It’s our way or the highway … to hell and obliteration. Until those now at the reins of power are removed, indicted, tried and incarcerated for their epic crimes against the rest of humanity, it’s hard to believe any good will come from the best and noblest efforts of others. Our button is bigger and our bombs do work extremely well. To that superiority and the moral vacancy and decay which sits at the center of U.S. leadership, we are all held hostage.
I genuinely hope that North and South Korea set a new standard, and the dominoes start to fall, tossing us into a new redefined age of cooperation and harmony, as suggested in this breathtaking piece. But recent — and not so recent — history would reinforce the fundamental law of entropy. It’s much easier to break an egg than put it back together. We have lazy, uninspired, dull-witted megalomaniacs at the helm of our “exceptional” empire. For them there is no other option other than the easy way.