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Monthly Archives: June 2020
Ricardo Hausmann speaks for Human Rights @FT? Political Observer comments
Headline:Opponents of more IMF lending may have blood on their hands Sub-headline: If that sounds dramatic, it is nothing compared with the death and suffering that can still be avoided When it come to the manufacture of Economic Metaphysics Mr. … Continue reading
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janan.ganesh@ft.com on Biden and NATO. Political Observer comments
How telling that Mr. Ganesh has missed this essay by Ian Brzezinski , son of Zbigniew, for the propaganda arm of NATO, The Atlantic Council. It was published on June 1, 2020, and presents his conception of NATO’s role, in … Continue reading
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@FT: Macron in search of renewed reformist zeal?
From “you have to applaud the caregivers at 8 pm, they are heroes” to “you can drag them to the ground by their hair and violate them even if they claim their ventoline” really fast. Headline: Emmanuel Macron in search … Continue reading
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Macron Apologetics @FT. Political Observer comments
What other newspaper, specializing in Capitalist Apologetics/Advocacy, the reader can reverse the order of these terms at will, would print this encomium to M. 37% ? The days of the utterly bloated/pretentious ‘Jupertarian Politics’, is now long forgotten in the … Continue reading
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Andy Divine’s ‘Liberal Faith’. Old Socialist comments
Here is an excerpt for Andy’s latest encyclical, of June 12, 2020: …Liberalism is not just a set of rules. There’s a spirit to it. A spirit that believes that there are whole spheres of human life that lie beyond … Continue reading
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Fiona Hill interviewed in The Financial Times. Political Observer comments
Demetri Sevastopulo demonstrates the the spirit, if not the letter, of the original Fan Magazine Photoplay, is alive and well. Such is his approach to Neo-Con Cult figure Fiona Hill. It reminds this reader of Andrew Sullivan gushing, in his … Continue reading
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@FT , Janan Ganesh on Biden. Political Observer comments
Headline: US protests will change Biden’s safety-first campaign Sub-headline: A more radical platform might emerge, and with it political risk The collapse of The Neo-Liberal State continues in a concatenation of unpredictable events. At the still political center is Senile Old … Continue reading
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‘I’m late to the Party!’ Political Observer belatedly reads The Financial Times
How could I have missed Janan Ganesh’s June 3, 2020 essay? Headline: A divided America cannot compete in a superpower duel with China Sub-headline: If another cold war is afoot, the US goes into it with less of the cohesion … Continue reading
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Niall Ferguson takes the measure of the collapsing American Neo-Liberal State. Political Observer comments
Perhaps this is one of the reasons that Mr. Ferguson left the august Times ? ‘He is the founder and managing director of Greenmantle LLC, a New York-based advisory firm.’ Mr. Ferguson is another peddler, with his vaunted ‘expertise’ like … Continue reading
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@JonathanTurley as ‘The Voice of Political Reason’. Political Observer comments
Headline: Can this American version of the French Revolution bring change? Where is the Marat, the Robespierre? Your historical inflation looks a bit grand for this list of villains: The Boogaloo Bois, ANTIFA, maybe BlackBlock. Should we add to this … Continue reading
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