Monthly Archives: July 2014

Douthat on Ryan’s Poverty Proposal: a comment by Political Cynic

Let’s file this Ryan poverty proposal with his infamous Budget Proposals, that Mr. Douthat dubbed ‘policy entrepreneurship’, a grotesque euphemism for propaganda! The White Male Ethos, a la Mitt Romney, that currently rules the Modern Republican Party, asks in the … Continue reading

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Mr. Rogin, General Dempsey and The New Cold War: a comment by Almost Marx

Neo-Con scribbler Mr. Rogin reports on General Dempsey utterly hypocritical, mendacious assertion: It does change the situation. You’ve got a Russian government that has made a conscious decision to use its military force inside another sovereign nation to achieve its … Continue reading

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Where have you been? A comment by Political Realist

One needs to ask the only real pertinent question of Mr Rumer: where have you been? This essay is the captive of the propaganda frame of the American National Security State i.e. that the Ukrainian Coup was ‘spontaneous uprising’. The … Continue reading

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Mr. Walt’s No Contest redux: as background to the current Ukranian Crisis, a comment by Political Observer

Mr. Walt, in his essay of March 3,2014 titled No Contest wants to reassure his readers of his bourgeois political respectability, although at some points in his essay, the truth will out over that reassurance: ‘Mind you: I’m not defending Putin’s … Continue reading

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The Culture War’s Sore Winners: further comments by American Litterateur

I posted this on July 1, 2014 via TwitLonger, yet I feel that I missed an important point about this propaganda and its framing. Mr. Douthat does not so much as praise the Hobby Lobby decision, as much as he … Continue reading

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