Monthly Archives: August 2020

Headline: The decoupling of the US and China has only just begun Sub-headline: Business logic has been displaced by strategic rivalry The headline writers, for this newspaper, don’t bother with the usual highfalutin Neo-Liberal ‘Free Market’ rhetoric, but frame Rachman’s … Continue reading →

Should it surprise the reader that Mr. Luce begins his essay with a small quote from Timothy Geithner? ‘“plan beats no plan” What might the reader make of this demonstration of Mr. Geithner experience with ‘plan’? WASHINGTON — Treasury secretary … Continue reading →

Joe Biden’s choice of Harris as Vice-President has produced a surfeit of political chatter, that views this ‘team’ as The Answer to Trump. Harris as the Colonel House to Biden’s Wilson? This Party Line, in all its iterations, is tiresome … Continue reading →

Recall the hysterical, war mongering David Brooks of ‘The Collapse of the Dream Palaces’ ? https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/the-collapse-of-the-dream-palaces Mr. Brooks has ‘evolved’ over time, aided by his political opportunism, into an American Political Prophet. In his latest column its headline announces: ‘This … Continue reading →

With all the Marque Pundits on vacation, it falls the Mr. Ganesh to offer up his commentary on the Biden pick of Harris, as his vice-president. He mentions in passing Harris’ threat to jail the parents of truant children. The … Continue reading →

Mr. Stavridis’ rise to the top of the Military/Capitalist coterie’s Olympus is here made clear to the reader of his latest essay at Bloomberg Opinion: Headline: Brent Scowcroft Never Hated His Enemies Sub-headline: His realist approach to global affairs came … Continue reading →

Andy Divine’s  essay of July 31, 2020 on the evolution/de-evolution of Post-Modernism, and its fellow traveler Critical Theory, leaves the reader with the realization that these conceptual and intellectual descriptions, have now been reduced to propaganda ‘catch phrases’  in the … Continue reading →

Headline: Beirut explosion: France’s Macron warns Lebanon on need for reform Sub-headline: International donors pledge aid in wake of explosion that devastated Beirut There is nothing like the craven ambition of Macron! He covets the Leadership of the EU , … Continue reading →

Its always rewarding, at my breakfast time, to do some exploring of the morning newspapers. What caught my attention today, with the proviso that all the Big Name’s of political comment are on vacation? was Janan Ganesh’s latest essay in … Continue reading →

The reader quickly realizes the ‘why’ of the Jerusalem Post hiring, of the 28 year old Bret Stephens, to be its editor. This newspaper is the propaganda arm of the Zionist State. And Stephens regurgitates the ever evolving rationales for … Continue reading →