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Monteiro: Trump Most Pro-Peace President Since JFK
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
16 Jul 2018
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Donald Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin in defiance of “the military-industrial complex,” the “deep state” and the corporate media, is more evidence that his is the most “pro-peace presidency” since John F. Kennedy, said Dr. Anthony Monteiro, the Philadelphia-based Duboisian scholar. Trump’s “moves toward détente with Russia” and North Korea and “his opposition to regime change in Syria” show that he recognizes the decline in U.S. capabilities in a changing world, said Monteiro.

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