Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

Headline: Boris Johnson vows to purge rebels who vote against no-deal Brexit Sub-headline: Threat to withdraw Tory whip and deselect former ministers such as Philip Hammond … The Tory rebels are planning to work with Labour and other opposition parties … Continue reading →

Headline: This is Not Propaganda — how the information revolution was hijacked Sub-headline: The Soviet-born writer warns of the ‘war against reality’ being waged by populist forces Pomerantsev reviewed by Thornhill is instructive in terms of political melodrama , at … Continue reading →

@Les Kaye votes Leave! @Lancaster Professional Blonde in the Belly of the Beast is your first source! She is articulate, but she lapses into what can only be called a collection of straw-men,  a litany of bad actors favored by the … Continue reading →

Headline: Argentina is in default, says Standard & Poor’s Sub-headline: Restructuring plan amounts to the ninth time that the country has reneged on its debt Argentina has defaulted on its debt, according to Standard & Poor’s, the rating agency, after … Continue reading →

Instead of announcing your ignorance about Cosmopolitanism, and your use of it as a political straw-man of your fictional New Republicanism, that looks like the same bourgeois respectable Racism of Reagan ( ’76’Welfare Queens Driving Cadillacs’,’80 ‘I believe in States … Continue reading →

Headline:Seven days in August tell us ‘We’re not Rome’ Sub-headline: The US president is no Caesar, and the imperial moment lies in the past Recall that Mr Ferguson opened his August 11, 2019 column with this, framed in the above … Continue reading →

Headline: The global gag on free speech is tightening Sub-headline: In both democracies and dictatorships, it is getting harder to speak up After a roll call of political bad actors, in nation  state contexts, on the vexing question of ‘Free … Continue reading →

I’ve read both Mr. Galbraith’s and Mr. Caryl’s reviews of ‘Russia Hand’ and tweeted these two comments to Mr Talbott: Tweet number 1 @strobetalbott James K. Galbraith reviews your book ‘The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy’. Although you … Continue reading →

Who can forget this moment in the life of this notorious Oligarch/Hyper-Reactionary? As reported by John Gapper @FT, Gapper’s report in a bold font, and note his use of utterly dismissive characterizations of the audience : “harried Brooklyn moms and … Continue reading →