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My reply to Katrina vanden Heuvel: June 7, 2021. StephenKMackSD comments

How long do ‘we’ console ‘ourselves’ with some portion of the toxic Kennedy Myth? His opposition to Vietnam War was always one critical comment, followed by an ignominious retreat, in the guise of ‘clarification’! Mort Sahl had a great routine, … Continue reading

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Edward Luce has access to Joe Biden’s inner-self. Political Skeptic…

The reader just has to read this first sentence of Luce’s latest Biden apologetic, as not just comic, but resembling a Jerry Lewis comedy, post Dean, tinctured in The Marx Bros. ? Another choice might be a Corporate Political Melodrama, that … Continue reading

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Wolfgang Schäuble on ‘a return to fiscal discipline’. Political Observer is mildly amused!

Title this: Larry Summers finds an ally in Wolfgang Schäuble? … A promising approach for Brussels to take would be a eurozone debt redemption pact, similar to the sinking funds devised by Robert Walpole and Alexander Hamilton. As the first Treasury … Continue reading

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janan.ganesh@ft.com on American ”Governability’. Political Observer comments.

Like most Americans of certain generations ‘we’ received our inoculations in Public Schools. In a time when Public Health was a prime consideration. That in a time that sees ‘our’ infant mortality rate, that now ranks 33 out of 36 … Continue reading

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Thomas L. Friedman, a ‘New York Times Public Intellectual’ in a hysterical mood! Old Socialist jeers!

Headline: How the Mideast Conflict Is Blowing Up the Region, the Democratic Party and Every Synagogue in America Here are the first two paragraphs, of Mr. Friedman’s hysterically framed comment, on the Zionist Faschist State’s blitzkrieg against the Palestinians: Lord … Continue reading

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janan.ganesh@ft.com on Biden’s untenable duel radicalism’s. Old Socialist comments.

The first two paragraphs of Mr. Ganesh’s exercise in History Made to Measure utterly disappoints: where are those arresting aperçus, that at times make his essays resonate with an intensity, that directs the readers attention away from its political content. … Continue reading

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gideon.rachman@ft.com call to Action. 2003 redux? Almost Marx comments.

Headline: Belarus kidnapping sets a dangerous global precedent Sub-headline: Europe and the US must arrest the slide into international lawlessness Where was Mr. Rachman when America invaded Afghanistan, decaled ‘War’: Blitzkrieg on Iraq: the demonstrably incompetent Paul Bremer disbanded the vital … Continue reading

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On George Scialabba’s ‘ ‘Free and Worldly’. Would-Be Critic comments.

I read the first two chapters of ‘The Metaphysical Club’ that features Oliver Wendell Holmes. And because I had purchased ‘Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law And The Inner Self’ from an Oxford University Press book sale: also because I found … Continue reading

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edward.luce@ft.com on Joe Biden’s troubled political future! Almost Marx comments.

As former speech writer for Larry Summers, and his soon-to-be Boswell, Luce is to put it mildly, as obtuse as Larry, two utterly clueless white males! The headline writers of his newspaper use the notion of ‘urban crime wave‘, can … Continue reading

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@FT on the Blinken, Lavrov Reykjavik meeting. Political Observer comments.

Headline: US targets ‘stable, predictable’ ties with Russia Sub-headline: Blinken and Lavrov hold first face-to-face talks of Biden presidency in Reykjavik The untenable political fiction of ‘Russian Interference’ in the 2016 election, led Blinken and Joe to engage in dull-witted … Continue reading

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