Monthly Archives: April 2016

Headline:Why Ian McEwan speaks for England Sub-headline: We await his judgment on Labour under Corbyn, the malaise of Europe and technology’s dark potential  One reads these two claims/assertions with a kind of amused wonder at the Ganesh perception of McEwan, … Continue reading →

Mr. Bershidsky assures us as an ‘insider’ with many contacts in the Ukrainian Coup government, in its many iterations, that it is all those corrupt self-seeking Ukrainians, who are at fault for the 40% inflation rate of 2015? It’s not … Continue reading →

What eludes Mr. Cesca’s grasp is an  understanding that Brooks is a propagandist. And the Pop Sociology of Marc J. Dunkelman, of The Watson Institute, is used as part of the central Conservative Party Line of the decay and degeneration … Continue reading →

Is there anything laced with obscene comedy than Sen. McCain’s attempt at Foreign Policy seriousness on the question of China’s ‘bulling’ of its neighbors? The Financial Times quite adroitly closed the comments section of this essay by the Senator, who … Continue reading →

This collection of cynical dismissiveness and maladroit political apologetics, as the expression of Tory defensiveness, doesn’t quite match Mr. Cameron’s indignant response to the attacks on his father, truly desperate. Compare it to Cameron’s comments on Mr. Corbyn’s lack of … Continue reading →

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJValv4YQcY&nohtml5=False Thank you to Jonathan Cook!

Headline: Argentina emerging from the ‘netherworld’, says Alfonso Prat-Gay Sub-headline: Finance minister cites inflation and Brazil crisis as biggest threats to economy ‘…the understated former JPMorgan currency strategist exudes a quiet confidence that a good start has been made in … Continue reading →

‘For a prime minister without strong, united opposition within or outside his party, David Cameron has had a rough few weeks.’ Careful, this sentence is rhetorically framed in Tory Triumphalism. The opposition is weak, even Mr. Corbyn’s fellow Labour Party … Continue reading →

You sometimes have to wonder if Mr. Luce is paying attention! When he’s in his Declinist Funk even the fact that America, in the persons of Nuland and Pyatt, and organization like NATO and The Foundation for the Defense of … Continue reading →

The invisible, indeed erased, central protagonist of Mr. Ganesh’s carefully massaged political history is Neo-Liberalism. It can’t be mentioned, its centrality in the Economic Catastrophe of 2008, is politically inconvenient to Mr. Ganesh’s polemic about the ‘mass rejection of elites’, … Continue reading →