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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

A ‘wistful’ Gideon Rachman on the possibilities of a ‘hard’ or a ‘soft’ Brexit. Political Observer’s wry observations

In Mr. Rachman’s latest essay on the Brexit he quotes an anonymous source : ‘… one leading British political analyst to predict to me recently that Brexit will not happen because “there is no version of Brexit that can get … Continue reading →

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@BretStephensNYT: ‘Jewish Power at 70’. Old Socialist comments

Your  depiction of Jewish Power at 70, is in fact here: Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/palestinian-journalist-in-vest-marked-press-shot-dead-by-israeli-troops-in-gaza/2018/04/07/ac57b524-3a30-11e8-8fd2-49fe3c675a89_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0163327a95c5 Source, your old employer, The Jerusalem Post: http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/LIVE-COVERAGE-Multiple-dead-and-hundreds-hurt-as-Palestinians-clash-with-IDF-on-Gaza-Border-547534 No matter your fear mongering about the eternal ‘Jewish Victim’, and the growing threat of Anti-Semitism in Europe,  Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman … Continue reading →

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@JananGanesh on a Generation ‘that has found power before finding its voice’ : American Writer wonders at this collection of cliches.

From its inauspicious beginning: That jangling sound is the keys to the world being passed to millennials. People born in the general radius of 1980 now govern democracies as mature as France, Ireland, New Zealand and Austria. Mohammed bin Salman … Continue reading →

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my reply to @Hamlet

@Hamlet For you and the rest of the ‘Macron Coterie’ there is a ‘profile’ at Vanity Fair that reeks of the usual treatment accorded to Movie Stars, living and dead, and the scandals and successes of ‘High Society’ and ‘Royals’ … Continue reading →

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philip.stephens@ft.com : ‘Emmanuel Macron is the rightful heir to the spirit of 1968’: A model of self-serving historical revisionism.

Headline: Emmanuel Macron is the rightful heir to the spirit of 1968 Sub-headline: Today’s protesters want to cling on to the past, not seize the future You needn’t read Mr Stephens essay to get the point of his advocacy/defense of Macron’s putative … Continue reading →

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Another ‘Macron Press Release’ from anne-sylvaine.chassany@ft.com. Almost Marx comments

The Financial Times is the advocate/apologist for Neo-Liberalism in the political present: Macri in Argentina, Moreno in Ecuador, and Macron in France. Even in the face of the utter collapse of this Economic Utopianism, in American and Britain, the editors of … Continue reading →

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Trump vs Comey : Episode CCCVII of The American Political Crisis Melodrama. Political Observer comments.

I just have to wonder at this whole political melodrama that stars the notorious grifter Donald Trump and his prosecutors, two former FBI hacks Mueller and Comey. Based on the word of Hillary Clinton, and her political coterie,  without an examination … Continue reading →

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@BretStephensNYT ‘prescient’ comments on Trump’s Syria Intervention. Political Dissident comments

In his April 12, 2018 column Bret Stephens writes: On Saturday I took my family to have a closer look at Syria. This was on the Golan Heights, from a roadside promontory overlooking the abandoned Syrian town of Quneitra. The … Continue reading →

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On The New Cold War & its Intellectual Agents. Old Socialist comments

As much as people might like to see Trump go, they should realize that the price is an increasingly distorted view of Russia as the new Nazi Germany and hence an increasingly feverish push for war. A central part of … Continue reading →

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Shlomo Sand on the decline of the French Intellectual, as reviewed by Tobias Grey. American Writer comments

It is more than interesting that Mr. Sand worked, in his youth, for a radio repair factory, in Jaffa, and was bowled over by The Mandarins, or at least Ms. de Beauvoir’s depiction of the world of an ingrown coterie … Continue reading →

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