Monthly Archives: August 2011

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/08/2011816104945411574.html As we watch the historical unfolding of the Financial Crisis of 2008, to forget that the Financial Reform of 1999 is here the root cause of the crisis of 2008 is,of course, verboten in the language of the popular … Continue reading →

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jfks-berlin-blunder/2011/08/12/gIQAGOcxBJ_story.html   Here is The Great Will at war with the legend of John F. Kennedy, with a generation of historians, mythologizers, political cronies, and all the thousands of hours of television dreck that Camelot and it's violent and bitter … Continue reading →

It is always revelatory to read my favorite Neo-Conservative thinker, in the pages of the ultra-respectable Financial Times. That frame of respectability seems a bit more tarnished each time I read the attenuated but, as always, complex little fables that … Continue reading →

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/08/12/pakistan_drones_children&source=newsletter&utm_source=contactology&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Salon_Daily%20Newsletter%20%28Not%20Premium%29_7_30_110

http://davidharvey.org/2011/08/feral-capitalism-hits-the-streets/ From this great article: “Nihilistic and feral teenagers” the Daily Mail called them: the crazy youths from all walks of life who raced around the streets mindlessly and desperately hurling bricks, stones and bottles at the cops while looting … Continue reading →

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/britain-tackles-the-welfare-state/2011/08/09/gIQAMpMJ7I_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions Here is another installment of the great Manichean Melodrama that Mr. Will produces regularly, in which the primary protagonists are a Virtuous Capital and an Evil Government, and the necessary Conservative political actors to animate the proceedings. The permutations … Continue reading →

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/10/standard-poor-s-was-right-to-downgrade-u-s-debt.html?om_rid=De4wA2&om_mid=_BOQu76B8ctQ-Xa Here is Tina Brown trying to rescue The Daily Beast from a richly deserved obscurity, by having one of her paid right wing hacks ,her contract workers write an ‘opinion piece’ on the Standard and Poor’s downgrade of the … Continue reading →

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-im-mad-at-obama/2011/08/10/gIQAhEPi6I_story.html Is Matt Miller a bit of a drama queen?  Well yes! But for Mr. Miller to chatter almost endlessly on, at least to this reader, about the political sins of Obama seems so out of place, after all Obama … Continue reading →

I am struck today by the idea that so many writers of opinion pieces, about current events, seem to need to impress on their readers their importance as thinkers and writers, and their connectedness to centers of power. I grow … Continue reading →

http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed