Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

In the Sunday edition of The New York Times of March 19, 2018 two articles have been published: Headline: Anti-Semitism Is Rising. Why Aren’t American Jews Speaking Up? by Jonathan  Weisman. Headline:‘Testilying’ by Police: A Stubborn Problem Sub-headline: Police lying … Continue reading →

What is ‘the lesser of two evils’ ? Trump and Trumpism, in the wake of the collapse of the Neo-Liberalism backed by the New Democrats and the Republicans? The denial of responsibility of these two utterly corrupt Parties led directly … Continue reading →

Mr. Chait, Here’s the bad news on Conor Lamb: ‘Meantime, Democrat Conor Lamb, the apparent winner in that race, had an Israel moment in the race. It was exposed that he had written in 2002 of an Israeli attack on … Continue reading →

As reported in The Financial Times: … Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine’s president, formally nominated Mr Smolii this January after having previously considered other candidates. Nearly a year of political horse-trading delayed the appointment of a new governor. Support for Mr Smolii’s … Continue reading →

John Stoehr adopts the chatty and dismissive style of so much political writing done for the Popular Press! He and Tomasky are as one in the use of this vulgar rhetorical gambit. And their shared distaste for the heretical New … Continue reading →

The new casus belli for a war with Russia, and its Putin The Terrible, will be the ‘highly likely’ ? The fading political career and ‘leadership’ of Mrs. May will be rescued by launching a Trident? Or its equivalent as … Continue reading →

Austerity is the rallying cry for an utterly catastrophic collection of Free Market dogmas! But it also acts as the slow poison to what remains of the Welfare State. The collapse of 2008 and the ensuing triumph of the 1% … Continue reading →

To The Financial Times editors : Your unstinting advocacy of the Neo-Liberal swindle, from The Iron Lady & Reagan to the dismal present of Macri & Macron, and its ignominious collapse and consequent immiseration of the 99%, again announces the … Continue reading →

Read these paragraphs and know the true nature of Dr Pangloss’ political/moral quietism! If not his political usefulness, to the apologists for the predations of The American National Security State. He is the anti-intellectual intellectual! ‘Intellectuals hate progress. Intellectuals who … Continue reading →

I have removed my essay of March 3, 2018 because of my own inexcusable lack of attention, to the responsibilities that being a writer means. The title was: ‘Peter Van Buren vs Andrew Sullivan on ‘Russiagate’ and its ersatz hero … Continue reading →