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
Left out of this article is the fact that based on prior agreement among FDR, Churchill and Stalin, the USSR promised to attack Japan 3 months after the the end of the war in Europe, which ended about May 8. Right on time, the Soviet Forces attacked and destroyed the formidable Japanese army in Manchuria and would have gone on to invade Japan itself. So there was a rush to get the war over with, leaving Russian out of the surrender agreement. Had Russian invaded, the US would not have been able to totally occupy Japan. Which would have been… Read more »