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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
Leveraging has made the US very prosperous as long as the debt was backed by an ebullient production of exportable goods. But since the fierce competition from the rest of the world made US goods far too expensive, the US has leveraged itself into a debt-ridden nation. Trump is trying to hoist himself and the country out of it by its own bootstraps, a Munchhausen-like effort that is not backed by a high volume of sales orders. It is bound to fail in the long run and cause an even faster economic decline. With the vast military outlay that surpasses… Read more »