Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

Left un-mentioned in this news story are some important but inconvenient facts concerning the current ‘Ukrainian Crisis’, that is due to western political meddling: Victoria Nuland, Amb. Pyatt and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in concert with the … Continue reading →

Mr. Luce can’t quite contain his enthusiasm for Mr. Carter, whose credentials and experience look to be near perfect for a Pentagon bureaucrat, in fact he is a creature of the American National Security State. What he lacks, in common … Continue reading →

David Brooks in his December 1, 2014 essay titled Class Prejudice Resurgent (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/opinion/david-brooks-class-prejudice-resurgent.html?_r=0) offers his usual ideologically based, deliberate misreading of race relations in American, of the present, as not based on racial prejudice but as centered on ‘classism’. He … Continue reading →

I printed a copy of Edward Luce’s essay of November 30, 2014 on Hillary Clinton: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/e84aa190-76f2-11e4-8273-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3KhGhi6Q6 I printed it last night so that this morning I could read it without resort to the computer. I wasn’t surprised at the ideologically … Continue reading →

Mr. Stephens has to be congratulated for staying so close to the script of the respectable Foreign Policy chatterer, while seeming to impart a seasoned wisdom to the reader. Absent from the essay is any mention of the 100 to … Continue reading →

Recall if you will the Edward Luce essay of November 21,2014 ‘Yes I can,says Obama’: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/6e1e0428-7127-11e4-85d5-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=intl#axzz3K2C2V2jX In which Mr. Luce in his very clever way engages in nearly faint praise for the President and almost scolds the Republicans for their … Continue reading →

Not one mention of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick or his co-conspirators UBS Bank and Bank of America in the wholesale looting of the city of Detroit? Congratulation to V.V.B for carefully eliding from the essay the important political actors except for … Continue reading →

Philip Stephens, Gideon Rachman, Ramzy Mardini and Edward Luce express in varying tonalities, in The Financial Times over the last few weeks, the political schizophrenia of the moment: in response to the latest fear mongering about ISIL, their murderous brutality, … Continue reading →

Not at all surprised that your Susan Glasser essay is absent a comments section: ‘Putin profits politically from wars and western apologists’ http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/6512d3c8-2955-11e4-8b81-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3BM3PdBtC Even the Edward Luce essay of August 17, 2014:’Obama’s Hippocratic oath enfeebles his diplomacy’ was a more convincing and better written piece of propaganda, … Continue reading →

I posted this on August 21, 2014: Political Cynic on Strobe Talbott Mr. Strobe Talbott is an historian who writes history made to self-serving ideological measure. His long paraphrases of the war mongering William Safire, in his opening paragraph serves … Continue reading →