Matthew Cooke: “Trump Did Not Change the Office of the Presidency. He Exposed It”

In the 12-minute video below, Matthew Cooke makes the argument that “invading Venezuela, Iraq, Afghanistan, [and] bombing Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, and Palestine, is the job of the U.S. presidency as established by the founders – a group of war profiteers, slavers, bankers, speculators, and whiskey distillers.”

“Empires cost far more than they profit, but the balance sheet is ignored because the profits are captured by their owners and the costs are borne by the people,” says Cooke. “It’s an archaic, medieval system operating as designed. Trump did not change the office of the presidency. He exposed it.”





See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Progressive Perspectives on the Trump Regime’s Illegal Attack on Venezuela
• And So Here We Are
• “The Moment Is Ripe”: Butch Ware on Building a “True Oppositional Alternative” to the Duopoly
• Howie Hawkins: “The Democrats Are Not the Answer to the Trump/Fascism Problem”
• Why the Democratic Party Is Not Going to Save Us From Fascism
• Neoliberalism vs Neofascism: Cornel West on the State of U.S. Politics
• Tony Pentimalli on the Fallacy of the “Safe Political Center”
• The Lamentable Legacy of the Biden Administration
• Sharon Astyk on What Volodymyr Zelensky Revealed Yesterday in the Oval Office

Image: “Murder Most Foul” by Mr. Fish.