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Christopher Caldwell’s funeral oration & memory lapse, regarding the Enlightened Rule of Angela Merkel, in the New York Times.

Political Observer scoffs! Here are the opening paragraphs of Mr. Caldwell’s funeral oration for the Enlightened Merkel Rule: The drubbing inflicted on Germany’s Christian Democratic Union in the country’s recent elections is a sign that, alongside Chancellor Angela Merkel’s 16-year … Continue reading →

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A Thatcherite adrift in the 21st Century: @RColvile in the London Times of 10/03/21.

Old Socialist offers some selected paragraphs. Note the collection of Topic Sentences, carefully brought to vivid life by our Adrift Thatcherite … On Inter-connectedness : The past two years have taught us a brutal lesson in how interconnected the modern … Continue reading →

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Thomas Chatterton Williams interviewed in The Financial Times.

Political Observer comments on the ‘political transcendentalist’. This newspaper employs one of the most interesting writers and political commentators, of the political present, in Janan Ganesh! I read many different publications on the internet, I spend my days reading! Conduct … Continue reading →

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Martin Wolf , Robert Kagan, David Frum, in A Financial Times Political Melodrama.

Philosophical Apprentice, on the political toxin of ‘History Made to Measure’. The reader has to recognize that Martin Wolf , by linking to Kagan and Frum’s essays, of the two of the most notorious Neo-Cons, signals the complete rehabilitation of these political … Continue reading →

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More of the same: Edward Luce shaming Joe Biden, in The Financial Times. Old Socialist …

The ignominy of being compared to Jimmy Carter, and Mr. Luce self-serving myopia, regarding Reagan’s back door deal with the Iranians : topped off with an Oxbridger’s pastiche of a Psychoanalysis of President Biden, and Doom Saying. Maybe not Freud, … Continue reading →

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The Biden/Harris New Cold Warriors offer an almost new Theatre of Conflict. Philosophical Apprentice …

After this stinging indictment, of the feckless Joe Biden, as presented by Mr. Luce:   Headline: Biden’s Afghanistan fiasco: ‘We look like a deer caught in headlights’ sub-headline: The chaotic scenes in Kabul are unlikely to derail his domestic agenda … Continue reading →

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Joe Biden’s Show Trial: The prosecution team, Edward Luce, Ben Shapiro and Niall Ferguson! Political Observer comments.

Edward Luce addresses the reader : Headline: Biden’s Afghanistan fiasco: ‘We look like a deer caught in headlights’ Sub-headline: The chaotic scenes in Kabul are unlikely to derail his domestic agenda but undermine his promise to restore competence Not since … Continue reading →

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Andy Divine’s sanctimony is his life-blood! Queer Atheist reads almost all, of his succinct 1750 words.

The first paragraph of his essay is cinematic in its sweep of images, and evocation of emotions: The bookends of our two-decade entanglement in Afghanistan are two men falling from the sky. The first, on September 11, 2001, happened in … Continue reading →

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The War in Afghanistan is a catastrophic, murderous failure! Old Socialist …

While reading Katrina Manson essay I was thinking: where are the Neo-Cons who advocated and ‘sold’ the war in Afghanistan, to the American Public, as politically, morally necessary? Recall David Brooks’ ‘The Collapse of The Dream Palaces’ dreck?David Brooks of July 18 … Continue reading →

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The Financial Times, and its reporter Gideon Long, can’t let go of Peru, in the persons of Pedro Castillo, Guido Bellido and Pedro Francke! Old Socialist comments

Mr. Long’s unsurprisingly inauspicious opening paragraph, in regards to Pedro Francke: Pedro Francke has been called many things in recent weeks: a moderate in a radical leftwing government, a Marxist who will wreck Peru’s standout free-market economy and a turncoat … Continue reading →

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