Monthly Archives: December 2024

Newspaper Reader follows the convoluted politics of a Financial Times Mandarin! stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 22, 2024 Opinion: Populism Headline: Economics can’t explain all the anger of voters Sub-headline: If it did, the US should have much healthier politics than Europe Janan … Continue reading →

Political Observer. stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 22, 2024 Headline: It seems everyone but Justin Trudeau knows it’s time for him to go. Why is it so hard to quit? Sub-headline: The prime minister is in the fight for his political life. But … Continue reading →

On Christopher Wray as political opportunist, in a convoluted Political Melodrama! stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 21, 2024 Headline: Opinion | Chris Wray’s Resignation Is a Terrifying Sign of What’s to Come Under Trump Sub-headline :The FBI director’s preemptive resignation is a terrifying … Continue reading →

Political Observer on political chatter as ‘Show Business’! stephenkmacksd.com/

Political Cynic on the redoutable Robby Soave ,who opines to those viewers ‘as if’ he were a latter day Walter Lippmann or George F. Will ? stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 18, 2024 Robby Soave is just another self-promoter who renders opinions -this … Continue reading →

Political Reporter confronts this inept attempt at ‘Journalism’ ! stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 17, 2024 Editor: With no Reporters based in Moscow these two ‘reporters’ rely on reports by ‘Russia’s Investigative Committee’ . Russia’s Investigative Committee, a major crimes unit, said Lieutenant … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader on reductivist Political Kitsch as ‘News’ ! stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 17, 2024

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 16, 2024 The Financial Times’s political romance with Neo-Liberalism in its various hues and iterations, recall this from December 26, 2016 in The Financial Times! Mauricio Macri Neo-Liberalism Lite was not quite enough! Milei is the … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 16, 2024 Anna Nicolaou in New York, Christopher Grimes in Los Angeles and James Politi in Washington: 41 minutes ago Disney’s $15mn defamation payout to Donald Trump has set a dangerous precedent for media freedom, said legal experts and news executives, … Continue reading →

Pollitical Observer. . stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 15, 2024 Editor: Anne Applebaum/Sikorski on Europe’s True Divide: a comment by Political Observer Posted on February 7, 2015 by stephenkmacksd Is the fact that Ms. Applebaum/Mrs. Sikorsky should issue such a ringing endorsement of the demonstrably failed successor to … Continue reading →