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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

@FT: Martin Wolf on two preditory superpowers!

Posted on October 16, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

I.F. Stone’s restive ghost! stephenkmacksd.com/ Oct 09, 2025 Opinion Global trade A world with two predatory superpowers Nations must work out how to contend with Trump’s America and China Martin Wolf Editor: A selection form Mr. Wolf’s ‘Two Preditory Superpowers’ essay … Continue reading →

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Reader recall the fact that Zanny Minton Beddoes was one of Jeffrey Sacks political minions, in Post Soviet Russia? Or have you forgotten inconvient HISTORY, etc…?

Posted on October 16, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Political Observer. stephenkmacksd.com/ Oct 09, 2025 Editor: Reader begin your political education about Beddoes here! Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Shock Therapist By Peter Passell June 27, 1993 The lobby of the Metropole, Moscow’s lovingly restored grand hotel a few blocks from … Continue reading →

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Americas’s most celebrated Political Charlatan Francis Fukuyama: Vin Scully’s could have done better play by play!

Posted on October 16, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Political Cynic comments on the Fukuyama Clique and it’s diminutive cadre. stephenkmacksd.com/ Oct 07, 2025 Editor: In a bleek 2415 words Fukuyama makes his case for a his newley acquired Liberalism? Ever since the year 2016, when Britain voted for Brexit … Continue reading →

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‘The government is spending and borrowing too much, while refusing to reduce that spending. The results are exactly as Margaret Thatcher would have predicted’

Posted on October 16, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Oct 06, 2025 Editor: Reader before you read my selection of Mr.Colevile’s adoration of Mrs. Thatcher, read William Keegan from Sat 20 Apr 2013 19.03 EDT! Headline: Margaret Thatcher: the woman, the legend … and the myths … Continue reading →

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French politics France’s prime minister resigns less than a month after appointment Sébastien Lecornu quits after rightwing allies indicate they could withdraw from his government

Posted on October 16, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

https://www.ft.com/content/d2d740f4-a185-4a98-8035-75f18dad47c6 stephenkmacksd.com/ Oct 06, 2025 https://www.ft.com/content/d2d740f4-a185-4a98-8035-75f18dad47c6 The leftwing Socialist party also threatened to vote the government down unless Lecornu suspended Macron’s signature pension reforms. Far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon described Macron as “the origin of the chaos” and called on him … Continue reading →

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The New Masters of Capital

Posted on October 16, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

American Bond Rating Agencies and the Politics of Creditworthiness stephenkmacksd.com/ Oct 04, 2025

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Janan Ganesh in The Financial Times: ‘The bidding war for geniuses will antagonise those just below’

Posted on October 16, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Oct 04, 2025 Opinion Life & Arts The war against the quite good The bidding war for geniuses will antagonise those just below Janan Ganesh https://www.ft.com/content/0fc44c6b-277c-4472-a235-65f59a9195f3 Editor: Janan almost pulls out all the stops, for his … Continue reading →

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On Adam Tooze, from April 09, 2022 & …

Posted on October 9, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

stephenkmacksd.com/ Oct 03, 2025 Adam Tooze, with help from Hegel & Intellectual Poser Francis Fukuyama, produces a Political/Philosophical History in Aspic, with Putin as his Anti-Hero Political Cynic scoffs! stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 09, 2022 The reader, before she attempts to read … Continue reading →

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The Mises Institute wants to send you a free book on Hayek!

Posted on October 9, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Political Observer offers………. stephenkmacksd.com/ Oct 03, 2025 Editor: Reader don’t waste your time, with tired old and shopworn Neo-Liberal dogmas!! Jeffery Friedman (Editor) and his experts offer critical evaluations, not just carefully modulated aplogetics, that eventuated in the 2006-2008 Economic … Continue reading →

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Zionist Political Hysterc Bari Weiss is ‘The News’

Posted on October 9, 2025 by stephenkmacksd

Newspaper Reader opines: With the President purchased by Adelson, The House and Senate in the control of AIPAC, Bari Weiss ascends to CBS! stephenkmacksd.com/ Oct 03, 2025 From the Magazine May 2019 Issue Mad About Bari Weiss: The New York Times Provocateur … Continue reading →

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