Washington Post story typically lambasting Trump for his "disgraceful" performance in Europe, which rattled the Deep State's investment in NATO and their project of constant wars.
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s we have seen (and as we fully expected, knowing the nature of the beast), Trump's attempt at pushing the reset button on the growing and highly dangerous hostility in relations with Russia, product of a frenzied campaign by the Deep State for reasons well explained on many articles elsewhere on this site, has elicited a storm of invective and threats (see sample below and here and here), not to mention coup insinuations reminiscent of what the CIA has done on multiple occasions on nations targeted for "regime change," such as Chile, for example (1973), and more recently Venezuela.
The criminal John McCain, Mr Death, surely wants many others to join him soon. Here he is polluting the public's mindscape courtesy of CNN's resident disinformer Anderson Cooper.
That said, there's also a handful of honorable and rational voices, among which we count Paul Craig Roberts and Stephen Cohen, a prominent sovietologist improbably married to The Nation's editor, Katrina vanden Heuvel. We all know that The Nation is a respected liberal outfit, and that it is precisely mainstream liberals who have been leading the insane campaign to provoke Russia and topple Trump—at any cost, and yet, Cohen, perhaps because of his privileged position, is able, or manages, to get his dissident viewpoint out, which is certainly salutary for the country and the rest of the world, as sanity and fairness are in extremely short supply at this point in the homeland of the empire. (Vanden Heuvel has also been expressing sort of anti-cold war views of late, but for all intents and purposes she remains a classical liberal defending the Mueller probe, the nonexistent 'sanctity" of US elections and so on. So she remains much more part of the problem than the solution. Disclaimer: As a Briton I should admit that our elections are something of a joke, too.). Equally surprising is to find that Tucker Carlson, often dismissed in the days of Bush2 as a staunch conservative, has been emerging as a voice of peace and reason, almost a rarity on the pantheon of mainstream media figures.
With this for background, let's have a look at one of Carlson's clips with Cohen (note this one aired in December of 2017).
And his welcome invitation to Cohen to share his reaction to the poisoned backlash against the Helsinki summit.
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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
SURELY war is the last thing anyone outside the ruling establishment wants. Labels like Liberal, Republican, Democrat, whatever, are redundant. The only two meaningful labels we have war-proponents and peace-proponents. Divide the world that way things look different.