Monthly Archives: July 2017

Capitalist Folk Hero Steve Eisman, the inspiration for a Hollywood film, predictions should be taken seriously by the readership of The Financial Times? He was just a canny player in the game of Casino that is Wall Street. Here is … Continue reading →

Mr. Stephens essay of July 29, 2017 titled ‘The ‘No Guardrails’ Presidency’ makes the ludicrous argument that Trump is directly related to the year 1968, and its ‘moral chaos’, using a 1998 essay in the Wall Street Journal editorial titled … Continue reading →

One needn’t wonder over Mrs. Jobs  purchase of The Atlantic, after all America is the country where the land thief and murderer were king: the trials and tribulations of the  arriviste was one of the great themes of that insufferable … Continue reading →

On the Sullivan menu this Friday is the Trump Political/Constitutional Catastrophe, The Heroism of John McCain, and the Mendacity of Left Wing KPFA. America’s Adopted Drama Queen is at full screech in his comments on the Trump Nihilism, reminding this … Continue reading →

Mr. Luce again brings his cliche ridden cogitations to the agonizing dilemma of the ‘Trump Question’. E. g.: ‘The guns of August are cocked and ready.’ Would historian Barbara Tuchman forgive? The root of the whole affair is the wounded … Continue reading →

The Financial Times as the in-order-too of not investing too much time or newspaper space to the bad news that Neo-Liberal Lite Golden Boy Macron is suffering from the political malady diagnosed as ‘popularity plummets’. They have produced a 2:37 … Continue reading →

Headline : The battlefield is everywhere in the digital age Sub-headline: This new world order means China and Russia can subvert the west’s military strength Note that the headline writers at The Financial Times are still in the thrall of … Continue reading →

The second paragraph of Mr. Sullivan’s latest Political Encyclical is remarkable in that it demonstrates with absolute certainty his obsessive narcissism: I know, I know. That word — as it has been reverse engineered by the modern GOP — no … Continue reading →

Headline: Emmanuel Macron lays claim to the mantle of de Gaulle Sub-headline : Like the general, the French president aspires to rule above conventional politics As always the headline and sub-headline at The Financial Times,  are the all important rhetorical/political framing … Continue reading →

@Sedro @personal view @Sedro, You are not the Bodhisattva, who walked outside the palace wall to experience the real world! You are like the editors of this publication who can’t comprehend the rise of ‘The Rebellion Against the Elites’ once the … Continue reading →