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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
^3000US citizens have no real political representation.
We don't live in a democracy. And our freedom is disappearing fast.
I don't want to be ruled by hypocrites, whores, and war criminals.
What about you? Time to push back against the corporate oligarchy.
And its multitude of minions and lackeys.
I can imagine the reaction from the editors, had I managed to place such an article on TGP. Does this author say anywhere who would take over ? Mr. Berman (yesterday) can say the existing citizenry is overwhelmingly pro-democracy, but not everybody can. You had until 1990 to tell the youth they were (MASSIVELY) shortchanged on schooling (QUALITY), but life was too good for them (actually, mostly anybody) to pay attention. You could have told them that afterwards, but the counterexamples existing in the world were rapidly being extinguished. You could tell them that now: the huge majority live in… Read more »
I’m having much the same problem in Canada, got the situation pretty much figured, and offer mucho ways to resist in my Democratic Revolution Handbook ( http://www.rudemacedon.ca/drh/000-home.html ) and a lot of other stuff (Green Island, link from the above, I don’t want to put a bunch of links here to attract mod-robs) – and the ‘pseudo-alt-left- in Canada won’t even acknowledge me, they’re all into capitalism light, and acting as gatekeepers rather than a true resistance. Check in there from time to time – I’m always working on new stuff, although the same age approx as you, we just… Read more »