Monthly Archives: May 2019

Headline: Rich List 2019: wealthy prepare to flee Corbyn’s Britain Sub-headline: Fears of ‘Corbygeddon’ raid on private wealth https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/sunday-times-rich-list-wealthy-prepare-to-flee-corbyn-britain-9l25snfx0 Almost Marx    

Geoffrey Alderman’s self -declaration as ‘a proud Zionist’ in the penultimate paragraph of his ‘defense’ of Corbyn- with friends like Alderman ? Here is his collection of the charges leveled against Corbyn by the collective under the rubric of Labour … Continue reading →

Title this Ganesh essay  ‘In Praise of American Imperialist Richard Holbrooke’ ! Referring to Mr. Packers book, and the career of Holbrooke, Ganesh’s expresses his misplaced tone of regret, for the decline of a species of bellicose Democrats who were … Continue reading →

Lisa Miller interviews  ‘American Prophet’ David Brooks on the publication of his new book The Second Mountain. The opening paragraph is a wonder of history made to measure, swimming in overwrought melodrama. Television kitsch dominates the inner lives of Americans. … Continue reading →

Kurt Campbell is the chairman of the Asia Group and was an assistant secretary of state in the Obama administration The Asia Group LLC (TAG) is a strategy and capital advisory group based in Washington DC with an affiliated office in Hong Kong.[1]The firm … Continue reading →

Is it anything like a surprise that The Financial Times would be ‘reporting’ on Milken’s Predators’ Ball? A brief description on Milken’s career is revelatory: … Milken was indicted for racketeering and securities fraud in 1989 in an insider trading investigation. As … Continue reading →

Before you even read Andy’s latest screed, read Janan Ganesh’s May 1, 2019 essay on Biden at The Financial Times: Headline: Joe Biden would offer US voters a welcome breather Sub-headline: Americans tend not to elect several high-drama presidents in … Continue reading →

Bret repeats the Trump Party Line: While: For most U.S. workers, real wages have barely budged in decades https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us-workers- real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades/ ______________________________________________________________ Income Inequality in the United States Gaps in earnings between America’s most affluent and the rest of the country … Continue reading →

Headline: Hobson, Corbyn and antisemitic tropes Sub-headline: It troubles me that scholars are teaching Hobson’s Imperialism without flagging the antisemitic dimensions of his thought or contextualizing it appropriately, says Abigail Green In its concerted campaign to defame Jeremy Corbyn, The Guardian … Continue reading →

Headline: How to get rid of Nicolás Maduro Sub-headline: An attempt to depose the dictator appears to have failed. Try again The Posh Boys paraphrase both John Bolton and Mike Pompeo: John Bolton, America’s national security adviser, said on April … Continue reading →