Monthly Archives: June 2015

Instead of wasting your time reading Mr. Isquith’s ‘Liberal’ apologetics for Reagan, go to The American Conservative and read Daniel Larison’s The Perils of Reaganolatry! http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/the-perils-of-reaganolatry/ ‘The trouble for the GOP isn’t just that younger voters don’t remember Reagan, but … Continue reading →

If you can tolerate Bruce Bawer’s almost insufferable attack on the ‘decadence of the present’, surely an idea freighted with political/cultural animus born of a reactionary politics, his seeming attack on scholarship in the age of the decline of print, … Continue reading →

Dear Rep. Peters, Thank you for your prompt e mail response to my phone call to your office of last week, regarding the proposed secret TPP and it’s twin Fast Track Authority. One of the many questions a voter might … Continue reading →

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/jun/25/practical-vision-more-equal-society/ ‘Toward a New Radical Reformism Anthony Atkinson occupies a unique place among economists. During the past half-century, in defiance of prevailing trends, he managed to place the question of inequality at the center of his work while demonstrating that … Continue reading →

The Economist supplies Western propaganda as answer to Putin Propaganda? The New Cold War with Putin as The New Stalin has reached the point of no return. Are we continually ruled by manufactured crises? What should we readers think of … Continue reading →

A damming bill of attainder! It reads like a revised script laid down by The Project for a New American Century. Or even an essay written by Neo-Imperial wunderkind Niall Ferguson, with the heavy hand of an editor, to excise … Continue reading →

The ‘ clientelist and corrupt bureaucracy’ that Mr. Stephens refers to in his essay are the very people that conspired with Goldman Sachs to hide the true extent of Greek indebtedness, as the in order to of more debt! This … Continue reading →

‘A senior Western diplomat told The Daily Beast’, ‘one European leader replied’,’Video footage, purportedly shot in Petrovsky today’,’Boasts by separatists’: We’re in familiar Daily Beast territory pioneered by the once troika of Lake/Rogen/Kirchick! The anonymous sources, until we arrive at … Continue reading →

I read Herzog when it came out in paperback from Bantam or Dell, I forget which, in 1965. Those were the days when corner liquor stores had paperback books for sale, it was another age, perhaps, when even drunks had … Continue reading →

After Katie Martin’s comments on the Greek soap opera, of June 1, 2015 on fastFT here: http://www.ft.com/intl/fastft/331801 What can we think of a newspaper that quotes one of the conspirators involved in the cover up of the true extent of … Continue reading →