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janan.ganesh@ft.com on Trump’s ‘practicality’ vs. Democratic ‘Idealism’ and other pressing questions. Political Observer comments

Mr. Ganesh goes where others might fear to tread! The re-negotiated NAFTA agreement is 1800 pages long. What can the reader reasonably expect from any Chinese Trade Agreement? Instead of presenting empirical evidence, Mr. Ganesh opines on the ‘political metaphysics’ … Continue reading

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Edward Luce’s ‘Bill of Attainder’ against Bernie Sanders. Old Socialist comments

Joe McGinniss wrote a best selling book on the Richard Nixon campaign, published in 1969. ‘The Selling of the President, 1968’.  In the ‘Age of Bloomberg’ an enterprising journalist should write a book about the 2020 Election, and its Plutocratic … Continue reading

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Stephen Budiansky and the toxic myth of the virtue of Oliver Wendell Holmes. American Writer comments

I saw a copy of this latest biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Stephen Budiansky, today, at my local library. I searched, out of curiosity, for the Buck vs. Bell case. This being a valid test of an actual biography … Continue reading

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janan.ganesh@ft.com as Political Fabulist. Political Observer comments

I still think that Mr. Ganesh’s novel is still a work in progress! But to earn a living he writes in the most hybrid of forms: the feuilleton blended with political commentary, I think that these two rhetorical practices are … Continue reading

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@FT Courtney Weaver & Lauren Fedor on the Sanders’ victory in New Hampshire. Political Observer comments

The headline below and its ‘reporting’: Headline: Sanders secures narrow victory in New Hampshire primary https://www.ft.com/content/fe58cccc-4c4f-11ea-95a0-43d18ec715f5 Added to this headline and sub-headline: Bernie Sanders’ early strength worries Democratic leaders Prospect of nomination of most anti-establishment presidential candidate since 1972 https://www.ft.com/content/d38e6b52-4d24-11ea-95a0-43d18ec715f5Continue reading

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La République En Marche and Macron, in the pages of The Financial Times. Almost Marx comments

Headline:Problems for Macron as defecting MPs believe the party is over Sub-headline: French president’s La République en Marche is losing ground ahead of elections Unreported in the pages of this newspaper, The General Strike since its inception in December 2019, … Continue reading

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My reply @Cpl. Jones

Cpl. Jones, thank you for your, brief ,but thought provoking comment. To ignore Corbyn’s catastrophic stand on Brexit in all its wishy-washyness is the very crux of his defeat in the election. If Corbyn had only had the courage of his … Continue reading

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‘Unchained Donald Trump’ in the pages of The Financial Times! Old Socialist comments

With the collapse of the Clinton/Clapper/Brennan ‘Russian Interference’ in the 2016 Election, almost receding into the back ground? except for die-hard New Democrats and their Corporate Media allies. ‘CrowdStrike’ was the only organized investigative agency to examine the Clinton servers … Continue reading

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New Democrat James Carville on the mortal danger of Bernie Sanders. Political Observer comments

It’s not just New Democrat James Carville, political expert and fixer who helped Bill Clinton to win in 1992: forget Bush looking at his watch, during the debates, and the prescient Ross Perot’s interjection into the campaign, that fated Clinton’s … Continue reading

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janan.ganesh@ft.com on ‘Conspiracist fans of Mr Sanders’ and other pressing political questions. Political Observer comments

Mr. Ganesh gives the game away with his first sentence: ‘Excuse the postmodernism here but the Iowa caucuses did not happen.’ What Mr. Ganesh ‘knows’ about Post-Modernism is a matter of conjecture, but does provide an au courant opening for … Continue reading

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