Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

The peripatetic Mr. Blair missed Ms. Tett’s essay on a speech by economist Benjamin Friedman: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/927efd1e-9c32-11e4-b9f8-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=intl Mr. Benjamin Friedman’s full address here: Click to access friedman.pdf Mr. Friedman, in his address, speaks forthrightly about a pattern of debt forgiveness that … Continue reading →

‘We don’t want a new Cold War’  Ms. Applebaum/Mrs.Sikorski has lent her wan propaganda skill to that very end! She and her cohorts Judy Dempsey, Strobe Talbott, David Frum and their allies in the Obama administration:Rice,Nuland,Pyatt,Power and host of others … Continue reading →

Is the fact that Ms. Applebaum/Mrs. Sikorsky should issue such a ringing endorsement of the demonstrably failed successor to the Free Market Delusion, Austerity, be anything like a surprise? A number of dissenting opinions on the notion of Austerity’s putative … Continue reading →

Mr.Casey Michel’s essay is not quite as persuasive as it might be, although his commentary is not without it’s merits, in convincing the Foreign Policy elite of his virtues. Although this paragraph is not surprising, but what follows this paragraph … Continue reading →

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/e0332f12-ac59-11e4-9d32-00144feab7de.html#axzz3QpCAzHtl I read with foreboding the nearly unhinged paranoia mongering about Putin as the New Stalin, in the Stephens essay: the New Cold War is upon us with the same Party Line as the old Cold War, a rehearsal of … Continue reading →

Here is an excerpt from a transcript of comments by Strobe Talbott (Russia Hand) and a comment from Stephen Cohen on his comment from Democracy Now: STROBE TALBOTT: In the context of what is happening in Ukraine today, the right … Continue reading →

The long night of Neo-Liberalism, and it successor Austerity, is at an end? And it’s end came when those lazy, profligate Southerners got tired of the political/economic wisdom of their Northern betters: Teutons and Anglo-Saxons vs the Latins/Greeks? Don’t mention … Continue reading →

‘The same guarded hopefulness applies to an Economist editor’s only true master: the liberal credo of open markets and individual freedom.’ This valedictory oration is made up of Neo-Liberal rationalizations, apologetics all framed in the self-exculpatory: a defense of freedom … Continue reading →

Here, in sum, is the central conceit of Ms. Applebaum’s hysteria mongering essay, the patient reader is rewarded with this indictment of Russia under Putin, the Party Line of the Neo-Con/R2P menage, as refracted through the Litvinenko murder, all is revealed … Continue reading →

We are asked today, as readers of the august Financial Times, to choose between the Neo-Liberalism of Mr. Rachman or Mr. Wolf. How predictable that the utter failure of Free Market Capitalism, which found it’s first iterations in the rise … Continue reading →