Monthly Archives: November 2018

Headline: López Obrador is bigger threat to liberal democracy than Bolsonaro Sub-headline: Mexico’s new president will be unconstrained by institutions, unlike his Brazilian counterpart The opening descriptions of the winners in their respective elections , in which each is described … Continue reading →

Headline: Petro Poroshenko sends message with Ukraine martial law plan Sub-headline: Response to Russia boosts president ahead of election and draws west’s attention to conflict What is the regular reader of this newspaper to think of the fact that Oleksandr … Continue reading →

@behcettin Thank you for posing your comment in a more comprehensible form! My first observation is that the French, for want of more accurate descriptor, flirtation with Neo-Liberalism – I would suggest that you begin here, with The French Way: … Continue reading →

The political violence of Neo-Liberalism: Austerity, cuts in Social Services and Tax Increases, on indispensable commodities,  has reached the point of Crisis in France. The blundering, indeed politically myopic Énarque, not just advocated by M. 37%, but enacted into ‘Law’ … Continue reading →

@FT where are ‘you’ ? Reading your front page of the November 24,2018 edition, the ‘as if’ is that  ‘the yellow vest protestors’ are unworthy of your reportage ? Your Macron Propaganda excludes reporting the ‘bad news’ about the contempt … Continue reading →

Mr. Brooks never tires of his own rhetorical strategy of presenting his interventions, framed in a vulgar pastiche of Hegelian ‘Concepts’, that apes a kind of profundity. Mr. Brooks is on this occasion a propagandist for this collaboration of Brookings … Continue reading →

‘Francis Malige was the EBRD’s managing director in Kiev from 2014 to 2018. He is now based in London as managing director for financial institutions.’ https://www.ft.com/content/2576251a-ee51-11e8-8180-9cf212677a57 This is propaganda for the 2014 Ukrainian Coup, there is no other descriptor for … Continue reading →

The presentation of the ‘legacy of Stop & Frisk’ entertains the fiction that Bloomberg didn’t get Judge Scheindlin removed from the case. Or  that he wasn’t a co-conspirator in the Show Trial of Cecily McMillan: Oligarchs have Power!!!!!! https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2018/11/22/bloombergs-stop-and-frisk-legacy-would-complicate-presidential-bid-707075 American … Continue reading →

This reader can only marvel at the Chief Justice John Roberts daring to present himself as the ‘voice of reason’ in contradistinction to Trump’s Know-Nothingism. That the leader of the Neo-Confederate/Originalist coterie, that now dominates the Supreme Court, and the … Continue reading →

The Jupiterian Revolution of M. 37% seems to stumble from crisis to crisis, all of his own making!  Most of these go un-reported in one of his staunchest propaganda ‘newspapers’ The Financial Times. Mr. Bremner’s enlightening essay offers something that … Continue reading →