<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">West, like most of us, has occasionally changed his mind about politics: e.g., “...West suggests that the president [Obama] discarded him without provocation after
he offered the Obama for America campaign his loyal service and
prayers…” <<a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/cornel-west-v-barack-obama/" class="">https://www.thenation.com/article/cornel-west-v-barack-obama/</a>>.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think he should do so in regard to the RCP group, because their emphases (e.g., </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">~ Initial Call to Drive out Trump & Pence</div><div class="">~ A new film by Bob Avakian on the Trump/Pence Regime including Q&A<br class="">~ Why We Have Taken Up the Fight to Build Refuse Fascism and to Drive Out the Trump/Pence Fascist Regime<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">etc.) support - by distraction - US war-making perhaps as much as support for Obama did, because the erratic Trump is not the problem - US war-making is. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Indeed, in his better moments, Trump indicates a solution (and who the source of the problem are):</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><i class="">Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump<br class="">When will all the haters and fools out there realize that having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing. There always playing politics - bad for our country. I want to solve North Korea, Syria, Ukraine, terrorism, and Russia can greatly help!<br class="">6:18 PM - 11 Nov 2017 from Vietnam</i><br class=""></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class="">It is significant that the pro-war party in the US are Trump’s inveterate enemies, as John Pilger noted before the election:</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><i class="">"The CIA has demanded Trump is not elected. Pentagon generals have demanded he is not elected. The pro-war New York Times - taking a breather from its relentless low-rent Putin smears - demands that he is not elected. Something is up. These tribunes of 'perpetual war' are terrified that the multi-billion-dollar business of war by which the United States maintains its dominance will be undermined if Trump does a deal with Putin, then with China’s Xi Jinping. Their panic at the possibility of the world’s great power talking peace – however unlikely – would be the blackest farce were the issues not so dire.” [Pilger, 2016]<br class=""></i></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class="">—CGE</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 13, 2017, at 2:25 PM, Karen Medina via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Carl, Every time I heard Cornel West, he was not supporting Obama. And<br class="">that included during the first Obama campaign for president. He was a<br class="">consistent critic of Obama from the beginning.<br class=""><br class="">I agree with FAB.<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Peace-discuss mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" class="">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a><br class="">https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>