Monthly Archives: June 2018

Nicolás Dujovne on the IMF and Argentina, redux. Almost Marx comments

In order to apply an inadequate whitewashing of Macri’s failed bid to re-enter the Neo-Liberal World Order Mr. Dujovne offers this: Mr Dujovne nevertheless pointed to innovative clauses in the deal proposed by Argentina that will allow the government to … Continue reading

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Midwife of Trump, Andy Divine on the president’s ‘State Terror’. Political Cynic comments

Read Mr. Divine’s sermon of June 8,2018 titled Another Glimpse of State Terror in Trump’s America here: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/traumatizing-children-is-the-new-weapon-in-trump-arsenal.html The violence and moral obscenity of separating families, gives ample moral space for Mr. Divine to shift into high dungeon, about the … Continue reading

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On de Gaulle, and Pretender to French Grandeur Macron. Almost Marx comments

Mr. Fenby wrote an informative review of ‘A Certain Idea of France. The Life of Charles de Gaulle’, by Julian Jackson until the last three paragraphs when M. 37% and his ‘Jupertarian’, i.e. Rule by Decree politics, entered from stage … Continue reading

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Martin Kramer defends Bernard Lewis against the charge of being “the last Orientalist.”(Revised June 11,2018)

Prof. Kramer defense of Bernard Lewis, is couched in the denial that he was the ‘last Orientalist‘, should not surprise the reader, as Bernard Lewis was Prof. Kramer’s thesis director. Kramer began his undergraduate degree under Itamar Rabinovich in Middle … Continue reading

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The California Primary as refracted through The Financial Times and The Washington Post.

The California Primary was about the  same old New Democratic hacks, the utterly vile Feinstein, the erstaz Anti-Trump poser, return. With the addition of Newsom, who has a built-in edge in the LBGTI Community, for his performance of marriages, in … Continue reading

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The Problem of The Left or the heresy of Political Correctness : The Munk Debate. Almost Marx comments

Dyson and Goldberg do not represent ‘The Left’, they represent the Neo-Liberal/Neo-Conservate alliance that defines the Political Center of today. Dyson reviled Cornell West in print, at great length, for his attack on Obama’s Neo-Liberalism , as West had promised … Continue reading

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Are the Jupertarian Politics of Macron in trouble? Almost Marx speculates & asks ‘time for a bit of schadenfreude ?’

The Financial Times reports: Headline: Macron close adviser faces preliminary probe by financial prosecutor Sub-headline: Prosecutor to examine whether private sector job met with civil servant transfer rules Alexis Kohler isn’t simply another ‘adviser’ to Macron but as the FT … Continue reading

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Jonathan Derbyshire & Sophie Pedder ‘worship’ at the Shrine of Macron’s ‘Jupiterian Revolution’. Almost Marx comments

‘Vintage Macron’? like the Beaujolais of an off year, not just disappointing, simply trading on its name, but sour and utterly weak ! This is the key to Sophie Pedder’s near  hagiography of M. 37%. Ms. Pedder an employee of … Continue reading

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