Monthly Archives: September 2015

Yesterday, September 29,2015 I watched Vijay Prashad on Democracy Now: http://www.democracynow.org/2015/9/29/obama_putin_spar_at_un_will I then read Mr. Stephens essay: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/2a6aa668-5d1d-11e5-9846-de406ccb37f2.html#axzz3n8SVQctf On the very questions elucidated by Mr. Prashad, Mr. Stephens not only agrees but the commonalities are quite striking. Except for the … Continue reading →

For some revelatory background on Ms. Slaughter as Foreign Policy expert and Public Intellectual start here with Steve Breyman’s essay on Ms. Slaughter: https://www.nytexaminer.com/2014/05/the-aptly-named-anne-marie-slaughter/ After her catastrophic Foreign Policy interventions, she now turns her attention to the conundrums of being … Continue reading →

When all else fails a bit of Anti-Putin propaganda is always welcome at The Financial Times! But the choice of Mr. Service to deliver this inflammatory polemic is neither surprising nor out of place, as The Financial Times is, to … Continue reading →

The ‘sea change’ is upon us, Mr. Corbyn and his reckless Left comrades, yet even the political rationalist, the elder statesmen of the FT, Mr. Wolf, speaks in the same hysterical rhetoric that dominates the political conversation, although strategically muted. … Continue reading →

From the image that precedes this essay, a crudely reproduced, by Alamy/Getty Images, of an old Soviet Social Realist painting of Lenin, adapted with the head of Mr. Corbyn and the Union Jack: the re-purposing old Soviet propaganda to the … Continue reading →

If you had any doubt as to the direction of Lord Patten’s review of Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist, by Niall Ferguson might take, this sentence assuages any doubt the reader might have entertained: What these passages admittedly do is to … Continue reading →

Surely one shouldn’t be surprised at the screeching anti-leftism of the Neo-Cons. Considering that Irving Kristol and his fellow travelers started out as leftists. For confirmation of this assertion see Murray Friedman’s ‘The Neoconservative Revolution, Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping … Continue reading →

From footnote 81 in Freud’s Paranoid Quest, a quotation from K.R. Eissler’s  ‘Talent and Genius: The Fictitious  Case of Tausk contra Freud: Here is a rationalization that could be applied to Heidegger as well as Freud.  Followed by this shameful … Continue reading →

Title this essay ‘The Political Otherness of Jeremy Corbyn’: the Old/New Party Line of the apologists for Neo-Liberalism/Austerity and it’s successor Corporatism: ‘ He is firmly against Europe’s planned Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the United States.’ The Oxbridgers … Continue reading →

Mr. John Lloyd provides an interesting, almost compelling political travelogue, yet it is lopsided in that the specter that haunts ‘The West’ is that the once ascendant dogmas of Neo-Liberalism have, in sum, been shown that it was a political/civic … Continue reading →