Monthly Archives: August 2017

‘If there is a civil war going on, it has been started by those who exploit the situation, in order to create a new Soviet or Khmer Rouge style system, or an invisible, communist underground empire of intimidation… In your … Continue reading →

The reader can only wonder at the number of thinkers and writers engaged in the rehabilitation of Freud. The journey of Psychoanalysis from ‘Science’ to ‘Metaphysic’, and now to its status as a singular expression of  Freud’s Philosophy of Mind, … Continue reading →

The fact that America is in a state of Civil War has escaped the attention of the ‘Liberal’ Mr. Peter Beinart! He places himself rhetorically as the ‘objective viewer’ of the  state of American divisive politics of the present.  In … Continue reading →

Andy Divine at full screech has the mesmerizing quality of seeing a plane crash or watching a traffic accident happen before your eyes. The blustering threats exchanged between The Donald and Kim Jong-un sends our Drama Queen into a fits … Continue reading →

Headline: Why Facebook should pay us a basic income Sub-headline: If data are the new oil then we may have found a 21st-century revenue stream At The Financial Times, the propaganda headquarters for Free Market Economics, in sum Neo-Liberalism, since before … Continue reading →

The reader can only wonder at the Palace Gossip of Arthur Beesley and Jim Brunsden in their report from Brussels. Headline: France pushes for top posts in eurozone reshuffle Sub-headline: Macron pursues greater economic clout after years of subservience to Germany … Continue reading →

Headline: Donald Trump’s clash of civilisations versus the global community Sub-headline: Human affairs are too interwoven to be the product of purely national decision-making How did I miss  Mr. Wolf’s July 11, 2017 essay extolling the G-20 as: The G20 … Continue reading →

Welcome to the United States of Amnesia, where the heroes and villains change according to the political weather. In the present political atmosphere in Washington D.C.,  Mr. Mueller is the hero, whose record of incompetence has been erased from the … Continue reading →

Headline: Civil servants lament Theresa May’s ‘wasted year’ over Brexit Sub-headline: Mandarins accuse No 10 of stifling policy debates and alienating EU partners Who are the ‘Mandarins’ that take center stage  in this ‘news story’ by George Parker and James … Continue reading →

An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story Niebuhr’s reputation as a primary American Philosopher demonstrates with stunning clarity the paucity of intellectual standards in America. He was no Sartre, Heidegger nor was even comparable to William James. He was, in … Continue reading →