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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

Euro-Zone Debt Crisis – Europe’s Austerity Approach ‘Clearly Wrong’: Stiglitz – CNBC

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George F. Will, Our Great Leader!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/05/AR2011010503855.html  George F. Will is one of the most prominent of America’s Fake Political Moralists. He demonstrates his talent for sermonizing about the Moral Decline of America in his latest column titled:’ Given up your New Year’s resolutions? It’s the … Continue reading

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GOP bends its own new House rules – Jake Sherman

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GOP Chairman of Homeland Security Says the New York Times Should be Tried for Espionage | AlterNet

Check out this website I found at alternet.org

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Robert Reich: The Shameful Attack on Public Employees

In 1968, 1,300 sanitation workers in Memphis went on strike. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to support them. That was where he lost his life. Eventually Memphis heard the grievances of its sanitation workers. And in subsequent years … Continue reading

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Machiavellian Moment: page 299 ; J.G.A.Pocock

" But the deception may lead men beyond the point of illusion. Assuming that it is the property of man as a rational political animal to rule with an eye to the common good, and assuming that this state of … Continue reading

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Leslie H. Gelb On the Late Richard Holbrooke’s Contributions to Foreign Policy – The Daily Beast

Let me just tell you a slice of the incredible story of why he accepted the position as President Obama’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan—and why he soldiered on in the face of poor treatment by the White House … Continue reading

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Iran’s Greens: Not Dead Yet | The Nation

Evincing no Christmas spirit whatsoever, in late December Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, and various law enforcement officials proclaimed their intention to prosecute the leaders of the Green Movement, the loosely organized opposition forces that challenged President Ahmadinejad in the … Continue reading

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Huffing and Puffing | Business | Vanity Fair

via vanityfair.com Here, in all its salacious detail, is the latest scandal to hit the pages of Vanity Fair regarding this generation’s Clair Booth Luce and all her powerful friends, associates and their alliances and, most definitely, their falling outs. … Continue reading

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‘A Historical Sensation’ | The Jewish Exponent

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