Monthly Archives: October 2017

Mr. Ganesh again proves that he is talented at producing the political and moralizing feuilleton. A journalistic staple of a European journalism of the 19th and early 20th Centuries, though not focused on the larger questions he touches upon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feuilleton … Continue reading →

Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative … Continue reading →

Miriam González Durántez isn’t just an ‘international Lawyer’, she is described as both a lawyer and a lobbyist on her Wikipedia page: ‘She is the wife of Nick Clegg, the former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.’ González Durántez … Continue reading →

The headline at the Financial Times should hysterically proclaim : The Second Spanish Civil War Approaches! But given the latest developments as reported in the pages of this newspaper that headline should now read The Second Spanish Civil War is … Continue reading →

Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative … Continue reading →

The reader has to just wonder about the ‘why’ of this piece of Warren Report retrograde  apologetics appearing at Alternet. As Jim Garrison said over a generation ago: ‘Let Justice be done though the heavens fall’! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_justitia_ruat_caelum ‘Conspiracy Theorists’, a … Continue reading →

Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative … Continue reading →

Macri’s ascendancy has hit a small snag: the death of Folk Hero Santiago Maldonado,and the clueless comments of the operatives of Macri. The Argentine Melodrama has one more day before the vote takes place. Will de Kirchner gain a Senate … Continue reading →

From the ‘Straight Talk Express’ to Bomb,Bomb,Bomb Iran This Neo-Conservative War monger, now presents himself as ‘The Voice of Reason’ or one of the fabled ‘Adults in the Room’ of 2006-2007. The whole of the American Political Class, the Neo-Confederate/Neo-Conservative … Continue reading →

Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative … Continue reading →