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Fiona Hill interviewed in The Financial Times. Political Observer comments

Demetri Sevastopulo demonstrates the the spirit, if not the letter, of the original Fan Magazine Photoplay, is alive and well. Such is his approach to Neo-Con Cult figure Fiona Hill. It reminds this reader of Andrew Sullivan gushing, in his … Continue reading

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@FT , Janan Ganesh on Biden. Political Observer comments

Headline: US protests will change Biden’s safety-first campaign Sub-headline: A more radical platform might emerge, and with it political risk The collapse of The Neo-Liberal State continues in a concatenation of unpredictable events. At the still political center is Senile Old … Continue reading

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‘I’m late to the Party!’ Political Observer belatedly reads The Financial Times

How could I have missed Janan Ganesh’s June 3, 2020 essay? Headline: A divided America cannot compete in a superpower duel with China Sub-headline: If another cold war is afoot, the US goes into it with less of the cohesion … Continue reading

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Niall Ferguson takes the measure of the collapsing American Neo-Liberal State. Political Observer comments

Perhaps this is one of the reasons that Mr. Ferguson left the august Times ? ‘He is the founder and managing director of Greenmantle LLC, a New York-based advisory firm.’ Mr. Ferguson is another peddler, with his vaunted ‘expertise’ like … Continue reading

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@JonathanTurley as ‘The Voice of Political Reason’. Political Observer comments

Headline: Can this American version of the French Revolution bring change? Where is the Marat, the Robespierre? Your historical inflation looks a bit grand for this   list of  villains: The Boogaloo Bois, ANTIFA, maybe BlackBlock. Should we add to this … Continue reading

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edward.luce@ft.com on Dangerous Trump. Political Observer comments

Mr. Luce’s verbose hand-wringing devolves into this Delphic Utterance: ‘Faced with a choice between sabotaging American democracy or a future spent in and out of court rooms, I have no doubt where Mr Trump’s instincts would lie. It would be … Continue reading

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The Battle between de Blasio & Cuomo as reported in The Financial Time. Political Observer comments

From the very font of Neo-Liberalism, The Financial Times, presents the dutifully alarmist report on the ongoing state of its collapse in New York City, that features a report on the quarrel between de Blasio and the bellicose New Democrat … Continue reading

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On Janan Ganesh’s God Talk: Queer Atheist comments

While the home of the American Empire is consumed in flames, Mr. Ganesh entertains his readers with ‘God Talk’. In that spirit let me offer these thoughts: Janan Ganesh celebrates Francis Collins by way of Christopher Hitchens ‘the heathen’s heathen’ … Continue reading

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America in flames, as reported in The Financial Times: Political Observer comments

Three paragraphs devoted to Joe Biden’s comments, ‘the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’ subject to his own attempt at self-rehabilitation, about the irredeemable character of the black habitual offender: the Predator of the white nightmare: The Crime Bill, the toxic remains … Continue reading

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Far-Right Infiltrators and Agitators in George Floyd Protests: Indicators of White Supremacists

Far-Right Infiltrators and Agitators in George Floyd Protests: Indicators of White Supremacists

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