Monthly Archives: December 2018

@JananGanesh ‘s injunction: Don’t mourn Bohemia ! Old Socialist comments

Headline: Don’t mourn bohemia — it’s everywhere now Sub-headline: We think of offbeat enclaves as a thing of the past. But bohemia isn’t gone, it’s just permeated the whole of city life Mr. Ganesh resumes his rightful place as feuilletonist … Continue reading

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Stephen Kotkin voices a telling critique of Canadian Frontiersman & full time political/cultural hysteric Jordan Peterson, in the TLS. American Writer comments

Stephen Kotkin voices a telling critique of Canadian Frontiersman & full time political/ cultural hysteric Jordan Peterson in the TLS: (The clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson contributes a new  twelve-page foreword excoriating Marxism, which in its banalities adds nothing to … Continue reading

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janan.ganesh@ft.com political misapprehensions episode DLXXII: The Democratic Party has rejoined The Party of War. A comment by American Writer

There are in Mr. Ganesh’s latest political feuilleton some serio-comic moments. His perpetual political misapprehension, or is it a cultivated ignorance? that  deserve highlighting , my focus will be as selective as Mr. Ganesh’s! “Turn out the lights when Mattis … Continue reading

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At The Good Grey London Times,episode XXIII: Eamon Delaney warns of the Power Of Putin, as the urgent concern,rather than the threat of the dread ‘Populists’ ! Almost Marx wonders & scoffs!

Headline: Putin poses a bigger threat than populism We are living in momentous times. The key phenomena of 2016 and 2017 continued to dominate 2018: Brexit and Donald Trump. This was not just because of their own unpredictability and international … Continue reading

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The New York Times’ Economic Wet-Dream. Almost Marx comments

‘The Masters of The Universe’ and their Neo-Liberal Swindle has destroyed  both the Middle & Lowers Classes in America! But at The New York Times all is well! Merry Christmas, Almost Marx Merry Christmas, Almost Marx

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munchau@eurointelligence.com on ‘The Crisis of Modern Liberalism’. Almost Marx comments

Headline: The crisis of modern liberalism is down to market forces Sub-headline: Liberals are often led astray by their addiction to macroeconomic variables such as GDP Mr. Münchau’s  rhetorical/political  landscape is teeming with ideas, concepts and actors: Wolfgang Kartte : … Continue reading

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@FT: Top Envoy resigns

The Party of War is made up of Republicans and New Democrats: the prospect of something like dismantling just a portion of the military edifice erected to fight ‘The War on Terror’ or just call it ‘America’s Thirty Years War’ … Continue reading

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Myra Breckenridge comments on Niall Ferguson’s Year End Polemic!

From the Versailles Grand Dining Room of the Hoover Institution, comes this compelling readable  Year End Roundup from the Niall Ferguson, some irresistible  highlights, the first is ,well , a nonpareil of the trivial, yet signifies one of the many … Continue reading

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Andy Divine’s well of mendacity, episode MMMMCVII: The Establishment is at fault! Old Socialist comments

Here are the first two paragraphs of Mr. Divine’s latest political encyclical titled ‘The Establishment Will Never Say No to a War’ The question before us is a relatively simple one: What would be the criteria for removing our remaining … Continue reading

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@JananGanesh ‘s pressing question has already been answered. American Writer comments

Headline: Where is San Francisco’s Bonfire of the Vanities? Sub-headline: The city is home to the biggest story in US commerce — yet the tech boom does not yet have its Tom Wolfe Who but feuilletonist Janan Ganesh would celebrate … Continue reading

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