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President (elect) Trump (l) and President Obama (r)
President (elect) Trump (l) and President Obama (r)

Dr. Anthony Monteiro has recently delivery a magisterial analysis of our current circumstances, the way forward. He has concluded that we are in the 5th major crisis of capitalism; sees the generalized failure of the capitalist elites; believes there is no way to prevent a total, systemic, collapse; sees these global crisis as beyond fascism, beyond neo-fascism, in severity. However, he thinks that broad, grass root political formations may have a chance of charting a new way for what ‘future’ there could be. That analysis starts about 15 minutes in.

http://prn.fm/black-agenda-radio-01-16-17/

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324 responses to “Obama, Trump and the Great Unravelling”

  1. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Pachamama January 19, 2017 at 4:38 PM “Osama was dead, we know this with certainty, 10 years before Obama staged his death just before his re-election campaign in 2011.”

    Can you please tell us how you know this and with certainty?

  2. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    de pedantic Dribbler January 21, 2017 at 4:59 PM #

    We shall agree to disagree on how we interpret the facts.

    Final fact the US war machine is woefully behind the times in equipment and strength.

    Humanoids are not always rational beings.

  3. ac Avatar
    ac

    After today trump agenda is dead. Poor Putin has also lost.
    Patience is a virtue

  4. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @chad99999 January 21, 2017 at 7:29 AM “Good to see a woman in a dress instead of a Hillary pantsuit. Michelle not only looked terrible.

    It was cold yesterday. Would you wear a dress in yesterday’s weather?

    Wrong question. I know that you were wearing a dress yesterday…probably wearing one today too.

    Michelle is a decent lady with good manners. At a wedding decent guests do not try to outshine the bride. Michelle had her time to be the bride/first lady, yesterday was Melania’s turn. Michelle respected protocol by doing nothing to outshine Melania.

    Stupseee!!!!

    I don’t believe that I have to come here to teach “Good Manners 101”

  5. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    Why are you always behaving as though somebody stole you joy?

  6. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @de pedantic Dribbler January 21, 2017 at 9:42 AM “all credit to Mrs Trump for her astonishing life’s journey – escort of not – she has reached a pinnacle of which only a few others can boast.”

    What is so pinnacle about being married to an old man?

    What is this obsession about believing that the best husband for a young woman is an old man?

    If a 46 year old man was married to a 70 year old woman would you still write that he had reached a pinnacle about which he could boast?

    Those of us who have lived long enough know that sex is important, and that it is vitally important to young people.

    Those of us who have lived long enough know that old men are less able than young men to deliver the sexual goodies.

    Enough of this nonsense of referring to those young women who are married to old men as being lucky, of having reached a pinnacle, and other such nonsense.

    It is not true. it is not lucky. It is not fortunate. It is not a pinnacle.

    it is degrading and unfortunate when a young woman feels that she must marry an old man.

  7. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    Reminds me of that nonsense which they do in the Middle East where a 15 year old girl is married off to her father’s 45 year old friend, or cousin.

    Degrading.

  8. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    What is so pinnacle about being a stripper…black women are called whores for stripping amd marrying old, rich sexual predatory men.

  9. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    “I don’t believe that I have to come here to teach “Good Manners 101”

    Lol…I would not even have bothered mentioning that to the Chadster @BUs resident Trump pimp….lol…

    ….he would never understand it, low class people dont understand good manners, his only aim is to insult Michelle who is way above his pedigree.

  10. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    “Simple Simon January 21, 2017 at 5:03 PM #
    @chad99999 January 19, 2017 at 12:31 PM “I agree Donald Trump is a racist liar. So is Hillary. So are a majority of Americans.”

    “You too chad99999?”

    As I been saying on here, Chad is very questionable, he only denigrates black peope…and women.

  11. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    http://ow.ly/93uE308dXXy

    This is called a movement.

  12. David Avatar
    David

    Barack Obama Was a Foreign-Policy Failure

  13. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @Simple at 5:47 PM your screed is misinformed, misguided and mistaken…it does really ‘miss’ the point badly!

    I was simply referring to the pinnacle of First Lady of the US. Isn’t that obvious from the comment “…of which only a few others can boast.”

    Would you care to explain (rhetorical; NOT necessary) how the marriage of a young women to an older man would ever be considered a boast by only a few.

    But thanks for showing that despite all the high brow analysis we always get right back to ‘sexual behavior’ when it comes to women and men.

    @Vincent at 5:11 PM…Yes let’s agree to disagree on this and particularly your ” Final fact”.

    You are aware that the US spends colossal amounts on military readiness/new equipment every year. The figures are there for all to review as a % of GDP or compared to other super nations expenditure. By all metrics they stand out above others.

    So I am not sure why you buy into the rhetoric that the “the US war machine is woefully behind the times in equipment and strength.”

    The US has some of the most sophisticated stuff in the world. They have more aircraft carrier groups than anyone else…than the other major powers combined. Nuclear subs they seem to keep secret so those numbers are not clear. And what of the stealth planes.

    But let’s not get in deep weeds on war tactics or equipment. Suffice to say that any modern war will likely not be fought on manpower needs alone.

    The US industrial complex and Republicans sing the song about building up military readiness …and a new multi-Billion aircraft carrier just came off dry dock and the new series of big money aircraft are being planned. The money tree is primed.

  14. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/over-1-million-join-anti-trump-women-s-marches-worldwide-1.3251026

  15. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @David @ 7:29…that’s a good article. In every piece I have read where the author has been as balanced and despite his/her critique of Obama’s foreign policy achievements they all have a section as :

    “Let’s start with the positive side of the ledger. Here one must begin by recalling the dire circumstances when Obama took office. The world economy was in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, and the United States was teetering on the brink of a complete economic meltdown. Unemployment was soaring…”

    In sum things were dread, dread. And they all also have a section as:

    “What has happened since? Here at home, the U.S. economy recovered faster than any of the other major industrial democracies, we’re now at full employment,.. Moreover, Obama managed these important economic and social achievements in the face of extraordinary opposition from the Republican Party, which seemed more interested in thwarting Obama than in doing anything to help the American people.”

    “In both foreign and domestic policy, therefore, this administration notched some genuine wins….”

    Yes he had major failures outside the US and the pundits as this one did, explained the rationale why.

    We look for the home runs when in fact he did bat close to .300 by hitting lots of singles. He did get runs across the plate (Won games without hitting sixes for you cricket peeps.)

    There will be no satisfying his naysayers like yourself that in the main he did well even in the face of missteps and his intent not to carry the US back onto the field of war.

  16. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/women-march-washington-attendance-dwarfs-inauguration-crowd-article-1.2952170

    Girl power.

  17. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/millions-attend-women-march-world-trump-inauguration-gallery-1.2952229

    Lol..

  18. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    And I bet not one march was organized in the Caribbean against the racist, sexist pig, now in the whitehouse…… big hard back, coward black leaders in Barbados and the Caribbean are waiting to see what the racist will do for them knowing he would rather nuke them than be told they exist, bunch of asses.

  19. ac Avatar
    ac

    Trump attacks the media while the million Womens march stands up to him with bold defiance

  20. Anonymouse - t\TheGazer Avatar
    Anonymouse – t\TheGazer

    It is common knowledge that a person of color must work twice as hard as others in order to achieve a success that is similar to theirs. The notion that blacks are 3/5 of a person though widely discounted still holds sway when it comes to performance in many workplaces. Add to this the many impediments that were placed in the path of Barack Obama.

    The notion of Barack Obama as a failure is propagated by the political right in the US and it is sad to see many ‘blacks’ buy into this nonsensical argument. They devalue themselves by accepting the standards of others.

    Even with the impediments in his way, if his successes were given their full weight and not discounted by 2/5 then Barack term as a US president is an unbridled success.

  21. Anonymouse - t\TheGazer Avatar
    Anonymouse – t\TheGazer

    Jesus! WW&C! You have a way of pointing out the obvious and disturbing our peace of the Caribbean man.

    However, I would have to see Caribbean women raising their voices …

  22. Anonymouse - TheGazer Avatar
    Anonymouse – TheGazer

    BTW: I do not read or look at anything that label BO as a failure. And I consider anything that get into his sexuality as BS and not worthy of BU,

  23. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @de pedantic Dribbler January 21, 2017 at 7:33 PM “But thanks for showing that despite all the high brow analysis we always get right back to ‘sexual behavior’ when it comes to women and men.”

    Forgive me, but I have never know anybody marry because they did not wish to engage in sexual behaviour.

    I am not high brow. I am a pragmatist.

  24. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Well Well & Consequences January 21, 2017 at 8:45 PM “And I bet not one march was organized in the Caribbean.”

    Dear Well Well:

    Why did you not go marching today?

  25. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    It would not come as a surprise to me, if Trump under the disguise of putting America first, and reorganising and re-tooling the United Sates Armed Forces, do not withdraw , neglect or reduce considerably , the United States Army in Europe ,the real thorn in the side of President Putin, and the main obstacle which prevented the USSR from getting past Berlin. With the British Army of the Rhine, disbanded, and the US Army in Europe,de-teethed, NATO would be hard push to prevent another Russian onslaught to regain borders lost under the USSR in 1989.

  26. chad99999 Avatar
    chad99999

    Colonel Buggy

    is delusional. Russia does not seek to reclaim the old borders of the Soviet Union. Putin may be interested in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, for strategic reasons, and perhaps in Kazakhstan, because it’s territory is useful for the Russian space program, but the other republics, especially Georgia, Kirghizia, Uzbekistan, etc, were poverty-stricken burdens the Russians are happy to be rid of

    The Women’s March today was a feminist temper tantrum. Women are pissed Hillary didn’t win, furious that taxpayer-funded abortions are now threatened in some states, and determined to protect (illegal) Hispanic immigration that damages African Americans, but their leaders are saying that Trump is “homophobic” and anti-black etc to attract homosexuals and African-Americans to their cause even though Trump is no threat to these latter groups.

    Trump even went out of his way in his Inaugural address to disdain “prejudice” and slam Obama and the political class for being all talk and no action on the problems of crime, drugs, unemployment and inner city decay.

  27. Hants Avatar
    Hants

  28. David Avatar
    David

    Let us wait and see how this tantrum driven group as you describe them vote November 6 in the congressional elections.

  29. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Dear Simple:

    You may have missed my many posts about being limited in what I can do, my movements have been limited due to nerve damage frominjuries suffered in an accident many years ago, I rarely leave home these days and as you know those marches reach for miles.

    If I could I would have marched in multiple countries, in solidarity, but because of limitations, I am restricted to the blogs, kicking ass.

  30. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Anon….nothing personal, just trying to wake up Caribbean people, male and female.

    A mental illnees has just entered the white house and because of it, that mental illness has an extremely long reach, black people never seem to see the deep shit they are in until it’s past their noses and they have already drowned, ask the idiots who voted fot that mental illness and are now regretting it, I hear them daily and that was befire inauguration…lol

  31. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/president-donald-trump-press-secretary-attacks-media-inauguration-attendance-sean-spicer-a7539776.html

    The mental illness’ fantasy.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/womens-march-washington-latest-donald-trump-president-500000-crisis-a7539761.html

    Reality..lol

  32. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/french-people-translate-donald-trump-us-president-language-speech-a7539461.html

    Oit an easy thing to do, but when you do, it’s unforgivable.

    Il n’est pas facile de confondre les français par une langue mélangée, mais quand vous le faites, c’est impardonnable.

  33. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    http://ow.ly/Tv72308elAF

    Let’s hear the Chadster@BU’s resident Trump pimp. …denigrating the First Lady of New York, Mayor De Blasio’s wife….

    Don’t forget De Blasio is also of German descent,

  34. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    @ WW&C

    I read that Trump used the opportunity while addressing the CIA, to back track on his “disparaging remarks” about the agency and criticize the media.

    Can you imagine, a GROWN MAN like Trump “bitching” about the media using two photographs showing the crowds that attended Trump’s inauguration compared with those for Obama’s inauguration in 2009, which clearly indicated Obama’s crowd was larger of the two.

    Trump is reported to have told CIA staff that when he looked out he saw about a million and a half people on the field.

  35. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Lol…..Art, Trump suffers from classical mental illness, just like Hitler, he sees what he wants to see even if it dies not exist and never will, hears what he wants to hear, even if it was never said and never will be and everything he says is right, even if he has to lie about it incessantly to make other people believe it because he believes it…….there is no middle ground with mentally ill chauvinists, it will be real roller coaster and merry-go-round.

    ….. the theater going forward will be much better than TV….until he pisses off the right people….just like Hitler.

  36. lawson Avatar
    lawson

    WW I dont know what it is that you dont get, brexit, trump, people are fed up, 2million women marched 230 million women stayed home. When you take marching orders from a whore like madonna its pathetic. Watch the trump roast and hear the things these offended liberals say. Its funny, I have been reading what you have written and wondering if that injury was from being dropped on your head

  37. chad99999 Avatar
    chad99999

    WW&C

    should retire the foolish comparisons between Trump and Hitler.

    Parts of Trump’s (very short) Inaugural Address express classic liberal values and would have been universally praised if spoken by Hillary, Bernie or Obummer.

    Some examples:

    “Whether we are black or brown or white we all bleed the same red blood of patriots…”

    “When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice”

    “And whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty Creator. ”

    Then there is Trump’s attempt to improve on “know-it-all” liberalism (This one is for Pacha):

    “We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone…”

    Long live Trumpism.

  38. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Best of Davos: Americans will have to stand up and make their voices heard, says Forest Whitaker.
    Forest Whitaker to Davos: ‘Obama didn’t fail’
    The actor and activist talks about his hopes for race and equality in America under a changing political climate.
    weforum.org
    http://wef.ch/2iOssSI

  39. Anonymouse -TheGazer Avatar
    Anonymouse -TheGazer

    Some will find a way to m ake a buck out of his intemperate remarks

    https://phys.org/news/2017-01-traders-algorithms-capture-trump-remarks.html

  40. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    chad99999 January 22, 2017 at 10:35 AM #

    Do you realise that the speech contained nothing original,nothing one can say came from his thinking/mind.

  41. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Scary…

    http://www.cp24.com/news/trump-poised-to-reverse-seven-decades-of-u-s-foreign-policy-stephen-harper-1.3248143

  42. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    dpD

    It would seem that Stephen Harper shares my opinion.

    http://www.cp24.com/news/trump-poised-to-reverse-seven-decades-of-u-s-foreign-policy-stephen-harper-1.3248143

    We do not have a clear idea of where the new president will head, but we do have some broad outlines.”

    Harper said Trump is “going to reverse the cornerstone of seven decades of American foreign policy.”

    Trump’s foreign policy will scale back U.S. involvement in global affairs and be guided by narrow economic interests, while coming to view China as a “geopolitical adversary,” Harper added.

  43. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Lol…Lawson, ya just jealous that my love is the sweet French speaking Justin.

    Ya beter be glad Justin is there as a barrier, give Trump one year and he will have GTA sold to Putin..and that would just be on one of his good days.

    @Chadstertrump’spimp….nothing Trump says makes sense, is often plagarized and never fully understood.

  44. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/two-pictures-that-prove-donald-trump-is-lying-inauguration-crowds-washington-dc-womens-march-barack-a7539876.html

    Liar, liar Trump’s on fire. ..

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-speech-cia-wall-heroes-john-brennan-ashamed-a7539836.html

    And so is his despicable ego….lol

  45. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    http://ow.ly/TcdG308eHfN

    Oh, suck it up and get some therapy for it….lol

  46. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Pedantic

    The US spends about 54 per cent of its budget on the military.

  47. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @ Vincent Haynes January 22, 2017 at 1:05 PM re “… It would seem that Stephen Harper shares my opinion.” A hearty LOL to that.

    Our intense chat and disagreements were about the US super power status…not Mr Trump’s foreign policy per se.

    Harper like all of us can surmise that Trump will upend eons of US entrenched policy but like all of us he cannot foretell exactly how that will play out.

    Trump has set his path quite clearly but as we previously discussed cancelling NAFTA is easier said than done as a practical measure. I don’t disagree that he will push that hard and also push China et al.

    In particular, I have no issues with the China reset but again you simply CANNOT slap 35% – 45% tariffs on that Walmart import bill I mentioned.

    But clearly an aggressive stance is needed on China’s policy on intellectual property rights, the financial market there and a host of other major issues.

    The point to all this is that Trump CANNOT continue to act from his twitter a/c. He has to manage these issues seriously.

    China feels as strongly on the China and Taiwan affair (right or wrong) as he does on his southern wall. That Asian long standing dynamic is not a 140 character game one can play and not get their bird shot out of the sky.

    I’m sure Harper would agree with me on that. LOLL!

    And I am very positive that Trump will NOT get into a trade war with China as that would be utter madness. This man loves himself beyond belief but he is not mad and nor are members of his trade team.

  48. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ chad99999January 22, 2017 at 12:18 AM
    “The Women’s March today was a feminist temper tantrum. Women are pissed Hillary didn’t win, furious that taxpayer-funded abortions are now threatened in some states, and determined to protect (illegal) Hispanic immigration that damages African Americans, but their leaders are saying that Trump is “homophobic” and anti-black etc to attract homosexuals and African-Americans to their cause even though Trump is no threat to these latter groups.”

    Chad, the 5 of 9 kid voted as BU most controversial blogger of 2016, you are really off to a flying start to retain the title for 2017.

    Keep it up, buddy.

    You might just be too young in too many ways to know of a man called Joseph Goebbels. But let us just say thatyou would be highly recommended by the master of propaganda to serve in Trump’s press corps.

    Chad, we must admire your adroitness in picking a winner of similar maverick luck and persuasion.

    The man is indeed ‘presidential’ in the art of manipulating the minds of ordinary ‘simplistic’ folks.

    What a wise move on his part to get Bishop Wayne Jackson a man of the prosperity gospel faith to oversee the god-blessing proceedings. In the minds of deeply religious black folks Trump is now a born-again saviour of black Americans.
    Well done Trump. You now have the niggers on your side. You are a true reincarnation of old Abe of “freed-the-slaves” fame.

    All you have to do now Mr. P is to make sure you provide those ghettoes with lots of free fast food, phones, ‘gear’ and don’t forget the condoms to stop them from breeding like rats.

    Maybe there is some ‘truth’ concealed in your moniker 9×5 equals to the messenger to 45th President of the Warmongering World.

    Both you and brother Zoe the Zionist could hold hands in your attempt to decipher the following:

    “The false trumpet concealing madness will cause Byzantium to change its laws.”
    “… the Republic of the big city will engage in costly military operations, ordered by the trumpet, which has led to fears of nuclear war.”

    “A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth”. ~J G and passed on to his grandson Chad 99999.

  49. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @Chad
    Long live Trumpism
    ++++++++++++
    For those who have difficulty comprehending “Trumpism” here is a primer:

    Trumpism: the new racism
    Trumpism : the new sexism
    Trumpism : the new jingoism
    Trumpism: the new misogyny
    Trumpism: the new corruption
    Trumpism : the new alternate facts (Lies)

    There I have fixed it for Chad, thank me later.

  50. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    https://youtu.be/SXhrR2FIAG4

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