Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

This cliche ridden attack on Putin as political opportunist and international spoiler is unsurprising. It follows the usual invective from The Financial Times: in sum Putin the Monster. Add to the cast Obama the Political Paralytic, yet America dropped bombs … Continue reading →

Congratulations to Mr. Shawn Donnan for two well written but highly circumscribed reports on TPP, after all this is The Financial Times, one of the most respected publications of Capitalist Apologetics! His first essay titled ‘Negotiators strike Pacific trade deal’ … Continue reading →

Paul Waldman demonstrates the bankruptcy of ‘Liberalism’ in his essay at The American Prospect titled ‘The GOP Delusions’ with the sub-title of ‘ Politicians and voters, both pretending their party can do things it can’t.’ by using this attack as … Continue reading →

Daryush Shayegan is a Cosmopolitan to his marrow,  a polymath and intellectual. Mr. Huntington was one of the last of the WASP Ascendancy, like the Bundy brothers and their journalistic twins the Alsop brothers. Huntington was an operative of the … Continue reading →

From his somewhat equivocating first paragraph, to his economic analysis and his lapse into the  prescriptive, Mr. Wolf’s faint praise of Mr. Corbyn and his economic brain trust is mired in Neo-Liberal myopia. The fact that Corbyn and that brain … Continue reading →

The very notion that John Boehner, Scott Walker or Strom Thurmond apologist Trent Lott are representative of Republican Party political rationalism is on it’s face ludicrous. The foreshortened ‘history’ of the recent Republican Party presented by Demetri Sevastopulo and Barney … Continue reading →

Mr Rachman’s essay is the culmination of a continuation of Anti-Putin propaganda that was begun with the Philip Stephens essay titled ‘Conflicts will become the new norm’ link here: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/f83cfbc0-31e1-11e5-91ac-a5e17d9b4cff.html#axzz3nE8xdtek A catalogue of the risks facing the thoughtful Capitalist rhetorically … Continue reading →

@Silicon Valley Matt Here is an instructive quote from W. Patrick Lang whose CV appears below the long quote describing inter-agency foreign policy meetings at the White House: ‘-It is increasingly clear that President Obama is disengaged from foreign policy … Continue reading →

Yesterday, September 29,2015 I watched Vijay Prashad on Democracy Now: http://www.democracynow.org/2015/9/29/obama_putin_spar_at_un_will I then read Mr. Stephens essay: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/2a6aa668-5d1d-11e5-9846-de406ccb37f2.html#axzz3n8SVQctf On the very questions elucidated by Mr. Prashad, Mr. Stephens not only agrees but the commonalities are quite striking. Except for the … Continue reading →

For some revelatory background on Ms. Slaughter as Foreign Policy expert and Public Intellectual start here with Steve Breyman’s essay on Ms. Slaughter: https://www.nytexaminer.com/2014/05/the-aptly-named-anne-marie-slaughter/ After her catastrophic Foreign Policy interventions, she now turns her attention to the conundrums of being … Continue reading →