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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. 'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary

The Great Unwashed confront M.37%’s ‘Jupertarian Revolution’ episode IV: Almost Marx comments

Place this under the category  schadenfreude: M. 37% is not just an utterly clueless enarque, but an authoritarian under the dull-witted propaganda of ‘Jupertarian Politics’! ‘The Paris Police’ are ,in fact, under the command of M.37%, is an attempt to … Continue reading

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My reply to Pompeo

Thank you for your comment. Aside from the self-congratulation that suffuses your reply, there isn’t anything like convincing argument in the face of the inconvenient evidence: In Brazil, Major New Corruption Scandals Engulf the Faction that Impeached Dilma In Brazil, … Continue reading

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American National Security State Propaganda , episode MMMCCLVII: On the death of Bush The Elder. Old Socialist comments

Mr. Ganesh is a gifted stylist, in this paragraph that seems too steeped in the present rhetorical poverty, he still manages to almost ensorcell. It is the preamble to not just  a meditation on ‘Extremism’ but a homily. Experience of … Continue reading

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At The Financial Times: on the episodic crisis confronting Macron. Old Socialist comments

Is this the beginning of the end of M.37%’s ersatz ‘Jupertarian Revolution‘?  He is NOT de Gaulle, although this Neo-Liberal poser, whose unslakable egotism is writing himself into French history! The protagonists in this melodrama: the Sophisticated City Dwellers vs … Continue reading

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At The Financial Times: the bad news from Paris. Old Socialist comments

The Neo-Liberal ‘Formula’ is always the same Austerity ,cuts in Social Services, and onerous taxes on vital commodities! While M.37% is in Argentina , Paris is or will be burning? From the good grey Times: Headline :Paris braced for new … Continue reading

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From the pages of The Financial Times: Obrador vs Bolsonaro. A comment by Political Observer

Headline: López Obrador is bigger threat to liberal democracy than Bolsonaro Sub-headline: Mexico’s new president will be unconstrained by institutions, unlike his Brazilian counterpart The opening descriptions of the winners in their respective elections , in which each is described … Continue reading

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@FT: Brian Mefford is an employee of The Atlantic Council!

Headline: Petro Poroshenko sends message with Ukraine martial law plan Sub-headline: Response to Russia boosts president ahead of election and draws west’s attention to conflict What is the regular reader of this newspaper to think of the fact that Oleksandr … Continue reading

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My reply to @behcettin

@behcettin Thank you for posing your comment in a more comprehensible form! My first observation is that the French, for want of more accurate descriptor, flirtation with Neo-Liberalism – I would suggest that you begin here, with The French Way: … Continue reading

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Myopic Énarque , M. 37%, inspires ‘Political Violence’ against his Neo-Liberalism à la française. Almost Marx

The political violence of Neo-Liberalism: Austerity, cuts in Social Services and Tax Increases, on indispensable commodities,  has reached the point of Crisis in France. The blundering, indeed politically myopic Énarque, not just advocated by M. 37%, but enacted into ‘Law’ … Continue reading

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@FT Where are ‘You’? Your énarque faces a dreaded alliance between ‘Left’ , ‘Right’ & ‘Black-Block’! Almost Marx comments

@FT where are ‘you’ ? Reading your front page of the November 24,2018 edition, the ‘as if’ is that  ‘the yellow vest protestors’ are unworthy of your reportage ? Your Macron Propaganda excludes reporting the ‘bad news’ about the contempt … Continue reading

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