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Monthly Archives: June 2017
@thomaswright08: Fellow Traveler Gideon Rachman ‘reviews’ All Measures Short of War: The Contest for the 21st Century and the Future of American Power. A comment by American Dissident
I’ll begin my comment with this paragraph from Mr. Rachman’s review of Mr. Wright’s book, that demonstrates that Mr. Wright’s book doesn’t labor under a political misapprehension, but expresses the ideological myopia of a Neo-Conservative public intellectual: Wright’s book is … Continue reading
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@OliverKamm takes a swing at Corbyn: but does a pratfall, a comment by Old Socialist
@OliverKamm Did you think that your history of being an avid supporter, or better yet, call you a close ally of Tony Blair, would remain outside this comments section. You’ve even blocked me from your twitter feed! How prescient of … Continue reading
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At The Economist: Mrs. May vs. Jeremy Corbyn. Almost Marx comments
Now the retooled Soviet Socialist Realist paintings of Lenin preaching to the Proletariat, with Corbyn’s face superimposed into the image, is a propaganda tool now discarded by the wily Oxbridgers of the Economist editorial staff. But the Oakshottian contempt for … Continue reading
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@JananGanesh & tony.barber@ft.co discuss the ‘stunning upset’, staged by the arch-enemy of The Neo-Liberal Dispensation, Jeremy Corbyn: or the almost crocodile tears of a Tory Hipster and an E.U. Hetaera. Committed Observer shares her thoughts
https://www.ft.com/video/bdc96067-b1de-45fb-ad74-adc1c7513811 There really isn’t much here except the usual chatter of myopic Pundits, Ganesh and Barber, looking at the second defeat of the Tories, in such a short period of Political Time: Cameron’s vote was on June 23, 2016! How … Continue reading
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Janan Ganesh on ‘Terror’ and the ‘frivolous general election’. Political Observer comments
In his recent essay, Mr. Ganesh avoids the obvious use of political cliches, but still manages to sound the notes of a baffled ‘Occidentalism’ that cannot come to terms with the glaring fact that America and its European Allies, and … Continue reading
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Old Socialist comments on the coming British Election, with an assist from the august Financial Times
From the headline and sub-headline of just two days ago, June 3, 2017, in The Financial Times by Paul Mason : Corbyn has caught the mood of a UK grown tired of austerity Britain is not a leftwing country, but … Continue reading
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Two competing narratives on ‘The Six Day War’: Bret Stephens vs James North
Israel provoked the Six-Day War in 1967, and it was not fighting for survival Political Reporter
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Andy Divine on Trump, the British Election & the perpetual menace of ‘Left Wing Students’. Old Socialist comments
Andy Divine serves up more Trump Hysterics, instead he should be paraded in front of the world in sack cloth and ashes, for his part in making ‘The Donald’ a part of American’s rickety political furniture. His last contribution was … Continue reading
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At The Financial Times: Theresa May as the ‘lesser of two evils’. A comment by Political Reporter
This pronouncement by the editors of the august Financial Times ought to produce guffaws in the regular reader of this Tory tabloid: The Financial Times has no fixed party allegiances. This publication stands for a liberal agenda: a small state, … Continue reading
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