Thursday, March 28, 2024
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Resist!

I love Donald Trump! Yes, of course, I disagree with most everything he says, and his sensibilities remind me of every racist I have ever met; but I love that he is arrogant enough to believe that telling the truth about how and what he feels is somehow a smart thing to do. In his book, “The Prince,” Niccolo Machiavelli suggested that those who wield power should ‘‘be evil but pretend to be good, sincerely believe in the value of sincerity, but never be frank.’’ Apparently Trump didn’t get the memo.

FBI, the political police

When FBI director James Comey dropped a propaganda bomb that blew up the 2016 presidential election and probably changed how the U.S. will be governed for some time to come, he wasn’t acting for the Russians. Comey wasn’t acting as an individual rogue actor either. He was acting in the tried and true tradition of the FBI as a political police agency that uses its authority – legally, illegally and effectively – to intrude into the political processes of our country. One hallmark of what we like to think of as our great democracy is the separation of the police and military from our political processes.

Dr. Cynthia McKinney on Hillary, Trump, BRICS and more

Block Report Radio interviews Dr. Cynthia McKinney about Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential race and the role of the Electoral College and lobbyists, the asymmetrical warfare that the U.S. has been waging against Latin America and the BRICS countries, a brief analysis on the hordes of emigrants on a quest to reach Europe and the E.U.’s response, and a comparison of the way the government works in the U.S. to how it works in Cuba and the way it used to work in Libya.

Scourge of US elections: Electoral College, hackable voting machines and obscure...

The Electoral College was created by the framers of the U.S. Constitution to ensure that the votes of the plebes did not supersede the interests of the landed gentry. That’s not just my opinion. For example, according to FairVote, an organization with which I worked in the 2000 presidential election, a whopping 78 percent of the votes cast were rendered unimportant due to the arcane rules of the Electoral College.