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
Quite a quandary for two groups as regards the murder of the children at Parkland. In order to protect the gun runners, the shooter is marked as mentally ill, deranged, lunatic, mad, evil, ….. so it could not possibly be the guns fault! The ‘gun’ is fully exposed, we all know it was an assault weapon with serious killing ability. What we do not know is the extent of mind altering prescription psychotic pharmaceuticals the shooter was using or had used, their name, their dosage, who monitored the patient, what were time frames of usage. I assure the few that… Read more »
Indeed. Good point. The system has an iron malignant integrity—all of its pieces naturally reinforce each other.