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Newspaper Reader can almost embrace his practice? Opinion: Geopolitics Europe’s leaders have woken up to hard power It isn’t clear that their electorates have done the same https://www.ft.com/content/42a4531a-d50a-46f0-9a23-076c03b0da31 Mr. Ganesh as boulevardier loves to tease his readership! The first two … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader & Political Cynic Headline: Ukraine, Gaza and the rise of identity geopolitics Sub-headline: The global conscience moves in mysterious ways https://www.ft.com/content/c9173148-22d9-444b-8a8c-b14585a7db26 Rachman sets the stage: Early in the Gaza conflict, a TikTok video of John Kirby went viral. … Continue reading →

Political Observer. MAR 26, 2024 Well-connected in academia, business and government, John Maynard Keynes was one of the most influential economic theorists of the twentieth century. It appears that his theories will be just as important for the twenty-first. As … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader Adam RobertsDigital editor Hello from London, What consequences might flow from Friday’s terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall in Moscow? Even—or especially—for an autocrat who just won a sham election, there is a risk of looking weak or wrong-footed after … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader comments. Mr. Brook’s 3,248 word apologetic for Israel, and its American sponsor does not include the word Genocide. Neo-Conservatives as followers of Leo Strauss, engage in the habit of drowning the reader in words and paragraphs, steeped in verbosity … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. The Economist offers ‘the most likely culprit’ & ‘But there is no shortage of other potential suspects’ framed in the final three paragraphs of it’s ‘news story’. … Who might have been behind the attack? The claim, and American officials’ … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. What @FT is really telling its privileged white readership, is that the Deluge of Immigrants from America’s ‘War on Terror’ was just the beginning of the end of ‘The Myth of the West’, as the sine qua non of Anglo-European Humanity! Oswald Spengler, Leo … Continue reading →

Myra Breckenridge says pardon my brass! Should it surprise that the once male dominated World View of ‘The Economist’ has ‘evolved’ under the female editor @zannymb, a rather notorious Neo-Conservative/Neo-Liberal, in line with the older generation of male editors. In the … Continue reading →

Political Observer on the jaunty cynicism, and self-congratulation of that boulevardier. Headline: The era of the unfixable problem Sub-headline: Refugee flows, low birth rates and left-behind regions persist because there is no answer, not because politicians are useless https://www.ft.com/content/2095fc43-abf7-4397-827c-0520d8977954 Confronting … Continue reading →

Old Socialist provide some @FT essays. … https://www.ft.com/stream/f0a1fc4b-f0c8-38b3-9737-9747de4c773d Old Socialist