Monthly Archives: February 2015

Mr. Niall Ferguson’s essay of February 13, 2015 titled ‘The Meaning of the Minsk Agreement’ is one more demonstration that the political cliches of the New Cold War have become fully integrated in the rhetoric of the Western Exceptionalist Political … Continue reading →

If there is any doubt in your mind that War Fever has infected the same ‘minds/hearts’ that sold the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Here is the evidence. Martin Wolff in the Financial Times under the title ‘Help Ukraine seize … Continue reading →

E.W. is author of the rambling essay titled Anxious Sensitivity under the rubric of Political Correctness, in which she/he engages in an evaluation of events, opinions, comments, that share a perceived common theme, expressed in that rubric and title. Here  … Continue reading →

The peripatetic Mr. Blair missed Ms. Tett’s essay on a speech by economist Benjamin Friedman: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/927efd1e-9c32-11e4-b9f8-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=intl Mr. Benjamin Friedman’s full address here: Click to access friedman.pdf Mr. Friedman, in his address, speaks forthrightly about a pattern of debt forgiveness that … Continue reading →

‘We don’t want a new Cold War’  Ms. Applebaum/Mrs.Sikorski has lent her wan propaganda skill to that very end! She and her cohorts Judy Dempsey, Strobe Talbott, David Frum and their allies in the Obama administration:Rice,Nuland,Pyatt,Power and host of others … Continue reading →

Is the fact that Ms. Applebaum/Mrs. Sikorsky should issue such a ringing endorsement of the demonstrably failed successor to the Free Market Delusion, Austerity, be anything like a surprise? A number of dissenting opinions on the notion of Austerity’s putative … Continue reading →

Mr.Casey Michel’s essay is not quite as persuasive as it might be, although his commentary is not without it’s merits, in convincing the Foreign Policy elite of his virtues. Although this paragraph is not surprising, but what follows this paragraph … Continue reading →

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/e0332f12-ac59-11e4-9d32-00144feab7de.html#axzz3QpCAzHtl I read with foreboding the nearly unhinged paranoia mongering about Putin as the New Stalin, in the Stephens essay: the New Cold War is upon us with the same Party Line as the old Cold War, a rehearsal of … Continue reading →

Here is an excerpt from a transcript of comments by Strobe Talbott (Russia Hand) and a comment from Stephen Cohen on his comment from Democracy Now: STROBE TALBOTT: In the context of what is happening in Ukraine today, the right … Continue reading →

The long night of Neo-Liberalism, and it successor Austerity, is at an end? And it’s end came when those lazy, profligate Southerners got tired of the political/economic wisdom of their Northern betters: Teutons and Anglo-Saxons vs the Latins/Greeks? Don’t mention … Continue reading →