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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

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard on ‘the political tragedy of Emmanuel Macron’

Political Cynic can’t cry crocodile tears! The Reader might wonder, what might be tragic about the political actor who brought the Neo-Liberal toxin to France? Headline: The political tragedy of Emmanuel Macron Sub-headline : The incomprehensible President’s falling star is … Continue reading

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Gideon Rachman @FT is like reading @NYT toxic trio Friedman, Brooks, Stephens!

Newspaper Reader confronts the reality of ‘Journalism’, as the servant of the various members of the overarching National Security States of ‘The Post War Liberal Order’. Mr. Rachman opens his essay as if he and his newspaper are not complicit … Continue reading

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@rcolvile vs @JohnJCrace!

Political Observer just steps out of the way! MAY 12, 2024 Do the headline and sub-headline tell the full story? Headline: Who’s gaslighting who? Sunak and Starmer are stuck in the blame game Sub-headline: As the economy sputters into life, … Continue reading

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@nytdavidbrooks ‘on Joe Biden ran on the theme of saving the soul of America’?

Old Socialist confronts ‘Brooks Merde’! David Brooks ‘strategy’ in this essay is an attempt to change the subject from the Gaza Genocide, and enforced Famine of the Zionist Faschist State: to the clear and present danger of Trump, that Mr. … Continue reading

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Suspended from twitter …

Is it like @NYT telling ‘reporters’ what words are verboten about the Gaza Genocide & Famine? I used the violent word ‘Purge’ . StephenKMackSD

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Bret Stephens ‘thank you note’ to ‘Campus Protesters’

Old Socialist asks ‘A New York Times Question’: Is Bret Stephens ‘Woke’ ? Mr. Stephens disingenuous thank you note to campus protestors, who can’t quite match Stephens education : Middlesex School , *University of Chicago & the London School of Economics, demonstrates … Continue reading

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Bret Stephens & Sheryl Sandberg defend ‘The Tribe’ @NYT. ‘Jewish Victimhood’ never grows old!(Revised)

Political Observer provides the pertinent data! While the Genocide and enforced Famine continues in Gaza, and the attack on Rafah awaits, Bret Stephens and Sheryl Sandberg sound the alarm on ‘Anti-Semitism’. Political Observer ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. The Electronic Intifada Debunking “Screams Before Silence,” … Continue reading

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janan.ganesh@ft.com postulates that the political mediocrity Joe Biden is the way forward!

Political Observer recalls Obama’s praise for Ronald Reagan, as ‘The Transformational President’, while FDR remained in the shadow of that Hollywood has-been! The reader needs, must consider what planet Janan Ganesh resides! This ‘essay’ on Joe is History Made To Measure ‘we … Continue reading

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On the question: Is @tomfriedman a would be ‘American Diplomat’ , or an advocate/apologist for the Zionist Faschist State?

Political Observer on Friedman’s 2,019 word intervention. ‘writing from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’ is attached to this ‘essay’ as the in order to of impressing the Times readership? Mr. Friedman, and his newspaper, self-present as not just the ‘last word’ on International Affaires but … Continue reading

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Constanze Stelzenmüller & Financial Times reporters Lauren Fedor & James Politi, on the Mike Johnson Political Moment, as it devolves into Yesterdays News!

Political Observer on the the unhappy marriage of Politics & Theology! Don’t relax, Europe — the US hard right isn’t finished yet Ultraconservative Americans have views about the old continent that would dismay most Europeans Constanze Stelzenmüller https://www.ft.com/content/a9e85226-0946-4b09-b755-6b44d885c677 At the … Continue reading

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