Monthly Archives: July 2018

At The Financial Times: robert.shrimsley@ft.com repeats the lie of Corbyn’s Anti-Semitism & other political crimes. Old Socialist comments

Posted on July 31, 2018 by stephenkmacksd

Financial Times ‘second stringer’ Robert Srimsley repeats the totally false, not to speak of defamatory Party Line on Corbyn, ANTI-ANTISEMITISM! All the top tier hacks are on vacation.  Do desperate times call for desperate measures : ‘guttersnipe journalism’ ?  Or … Continue reading →

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Grand Inquisitor @jonathanchait names the Apostates & their Fellow Travelers on ‘The Left’

Posted on July 30, 2018 by stephenkmacksd

Like the ‘Liberals’ of another time, Schlesinger and Niebuhr being the most well known,  Mr. Chait is an active collaborator with the Clinton/Clapper/Brennan coterie, like Schlesinger and Niebuhr and their organization The ADA were to the McCarthy Witch Hunters. The … Continue reading →

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The perennially maladroit Macron, episode CXIII: ‘Jupertarian’ equals Authoritarian, or will Scandal be the ‘end’ of Macron’s Neo-Liberal putsch? Old Socialist speculates

Posted on July 29, 2018 by stephenkmacksd

Headline: Macron, the bodyguard and the May Day scandal Sub-headline: French president battles biggest political crisis of his tenure The latest Macron Scandal is told by Harriet Agnew of the Financial Times: At the centre of the incident is Mr … Continue reading →

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Andy Divine’s Political Moralizing, Episode CCCXXIII: Andy joyously wallows in the muck of ‘Russian-Gate’! Political Observer comments

Posted on July 27, 2018 by stephenkmacksd

Andy Divine latest essay focuses on ‘Russia-Gate’? The indictments of ‘Russian Trolls’ & ‘Russian Spies’ – but Show Trials in absentia are not what Mueller, Rosenstein and Comey have in mind. Of more import are Trump’s machinations & coverup of … Continue reading →

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At The Financial Times: ‘House Republicans seek to impeach Rod Rosenstein’ . Old Socialist comments

Posted on July 26, 2018 by stephenkmacksd

The Financial Times editors again demonstrates their fear of their own readership, by way of disabling the comments section, on this ‘news story ‘ ,on the proposed Impeachment of Rod Rosenstein by House Republicans There are plenty of reason to … Continue reading →

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gideon.rachman@ft.com takes the temperature of ‘The Washington foreign policy establishment’. Old Socialist comments

Posted on July 24, 2018 by stephenkmacksd

Headline: Revenge on the US is sweet for Vladimir Putin Sub-headline:  The Russian president draws satisfaction from embarrassing America Taking the temperature of ‘The Washington foreign policy establishment’  must have been  a  challenging, even a daunting task. Like Mr. Rachman, … Continue reading →

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On the decline of America’s Public Women & Men. Publius comments

Posted on July 23, 2018 by stephenkmacksd

No need to wonder or even agonize over the men leading our once Republic. Mueller, Comey, Brennan, Clapper are the dregs of now vanished Republic, swallowed whole by the imperatives of the National Security State. If you need a reminder … Continue reading →

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Anne-Marie Slaughter on the Trump/Putin Summit. Old Socialist comments

Posted on July 22, 2018 by stephenkmacksd

The concluding paragraph of Ms. Slaughter’s essay, in which she extemporizes on a theme of Martin Luther King, is worthy of full quotation: ‘It is incumbent upon those of us who see an arc of progress bending towards peace and … Continue reading →

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@EdwardGLuce & The Great Man. Political Observer comments

Posted on July 21, 2018 by stephenkmacksd

While babies in Vietnam are still being born with catastrophic birth defects from the effects of Agent Orange, decades after the end of the American Anti-Communists crusade or just call it mass slaughter, The Great Man is treated to lunch … Continue reading →

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@aaondmiller2 anguish over the ‘Jewish Nation-state Bill’. Old Socialist comments

Posted on July 19, 2018 by stephenkmacksd

Mr. Miller resembles American Jurisprudence: a bottomless well of self-serving mendacity in service to an utterly shameful defense of ‘Manifest Destiny’ i.e. Imperialism & Exceptionalism , genocide, Jim Crow and Segregation and its Wars of Empire, among a long list … Continue reading →

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