Monthly Archives: December 2016

Claire Boothe Luce and Arianna Huffington, some thoughts by Political Observer

I recall asking my mother what ‘without portfolio’ meant, when I was seven or eight years old, as I looked at one of her copies of Ladies Home Journal. This popular woman’s magazine, for generations of women, had as one … Continue reading

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At The Financial Times: my reply to Pastaneta

@Pastaneta @Premonition Is there nothing like the perpetual keening of the minions of Capitalist Class? With apologies to Karl Marx! The Bail Out followed by Quantitative Easing isn’t/wasn’t enough? On that question see these two essays that define the term antithetical. … Continue reading

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On Edward Luce’s ‘Moscow Diary’, a comment by Political Observer

In his Moscow Diary Mr. Luce produces more New Cold War hysterical propaganda with the aid of his Greek chorus of policy experts: ‘Bob Legvold, the veteran Columbia University Russianist’ who chants about : “a crisis of small thinking” and “global … Continue reading

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On Jeremy Waldron’s tepid critique of Cass Sunstein’s ‘Asymmetric Paternalism’, a comment by American Writer

In reading Mr. Waldron’s review of two of Mr. Sunstein’s books, in the October 9,2014 edition of The New Your Review of Books: Why Nudge? The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism by Cass R. Sunstein Yale University Press, 195 pp., $25.00 … Continue reading

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Ishaan Tharoor on the ‘Global Rightwing Serge’ and its collective Imperial Nostalgia. A comment by Political Observer

Mr. Tharoor offers very interesting insights on Fillon, the quotations from his speeches are telling. He is the Marinetti/Thatcherite candidate that has become the favorite of the ultra-respectable Financial Times. I put  Marinetti first , the Futurist/Fascist artist and intellectual, … Continue reading

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The ‘sweep of the Populist Right’ as viewed by Philip Stephens. A comment by Political Observer

The failure of The Financial Times and its writers/editorialists is that of simple honesty. Globalisation is not the problem, the problem can be defined as the Failure of the Neo-Liberalism, given political legitimacy by the rise of Thatcher and Reagan, … Continue reading

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