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Things to ponder
While our media prostitutes, many Hollywood celebs, and politicians and opinion shapers make so much noise about the still to be demonstrated damage done by the Russkies to our nonexistent democracy, this is what the sanctimonious US government has done overseas just since the close of World War 2. And this is what we know about. Many other misdeeds are yet to be revealed or documented.
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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We need to amplify the focus of this national debate—more at times like an irreconcilable brawl. To reduce everything—as the Democrats would like, and the Republians would agree—to a matter of identity politics, the threat presented by the Kavanaughs of this world to women, is to lose sight of the more serious disease underlying these disgusting developments: Kavanaugh, Trump, Hillary, Obama and their crimes and their invariably repugnantly amoral personalities. In the final analysis, it doesn’t matter if Kavanaugh is chosen to be the next judge on the SCOTUS. The world may be the worse for that but that, in… Read more »
Replying to P. Greanville – I can’t begin to describe my delight at your comment as well as this article. You have articulated much more elegantly and thoroughly what I have been thinking – and telling my partner – all along. I agree with everything you’re saying. Seriously – is this the best the stupid do-nothing Democrats can come up with? As you wrote – this does not mean I am minimizing all the disgusting things men have done to women for the last few hundred years. I’ve been subjected to many of those “things” and – often – because… Read more »