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Newpaper Reader wonders, in print. stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 19, 2025 Editor: Paragraph 1: The highlighted sentence fragment is pure speculation! Judged by the din of Russian propaganda and the despair among some Europeans, Vladimir Putin has never been closer to winning his … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 18, 2025 My Friend’s at The New Statesman keep me informed about their desertion of the Left, of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, George Bernard Shaw and other prominent members of the Fabian Society! But the … Continue reading →

Political Observer directs your attention to the final sentence of his ‘review/pastiche’ stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 17, 2025 Review The Last Neoliberal: Macron and the Origins of France’s Political Crisis Reviewed by Andrew Moravcsik March/April 2022 Published on February 22, 2022 This updated … Continue reading →

The Great Man faulters? stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 16, 2025 President Javier Milei’s backing of the crypto token $Libra that collapsed in hours is a story that the administration is hastily trying to rewrite amid calls for impeachment and international media attention. … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader & Political Cynic. stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 16, 2025 The opening paragraphs of JD Vance speech should not surprise! It is the usual Trump strategy of causing intentional disequlibian, in sum putting American Allies on the defensive. It’s the Trump … Continue reading →

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Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 14, 2025 Editor: For those of ‘us’ with a long memory, who can forget Jonathan Freedland’s act of Defamation against Jeremy Corbyn. Headline:Jeremy Corbyn is either blind to antisemitism – or he just doesn’t care Sub-headline … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader’s critical anlysis of The Financial Times’ propaganda! stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 13, 2025 War in Ukraine Headline: Donald Trump opens the door to Vladimir Putin’s grandest ambitions Sub-headline: Russian leader wants a new security architecture to give his country a … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 10, 2025 Editor : For those of us who have not read this Stendahl novel, here is Penguin Random House to the rescue: The Red and the Black Reader’s Guide By Stendhal https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/298093/the-red-and-the-black-by-stendhal/9780140447644/readers-guide In Stendhal’s The … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 07, 2025 As usual Janan Ganesh has a lively and insightful conversation with himself -its like a fast moving current in a river of ideas, speculations, and just plain political chatter – some call this … Continue reading →