Glen Ford is a founding editor of Black Agenda Report (BAR), where he serves as executive editor. He can be contacted at Glen.Ford@BlackAgendaReport.com
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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
If Sanders did win, the corporate Democrats would stab him in the back the way they sabotaged McGovern in 1972….or shoot him in the front they way they did Bobby Kennedy….the country is fascist. Period.
The following comment, by our colleague Hiroyuki Hamada, deserves wide dissemination: Hiroyuki Hamada I see some people praising Mr. Bernie Sanders for his efforts in passing a bill to end the US war on Yemen. This is certainly a great thing for people who are facing enormous sufferings and deaths in Yemen. But for those of us who have followed the momentum closely, we also know that Mr. Sanders was certainly one of the politicians who pushed Saudi Arabia to do its part in “fighting terrorism” (which of course meant that he wanted Saudi kingdom to be a part of… Read more »