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Constanze Stelzenmüller of Brookings, on Putin/Navalny. Political Skeptic comments

What more important political actor than a Brookings ‘fellow’ to add to the Mythology that Putin is ‘The New Stalin’ : such is Putin’s ‘evil’, in the patois of  Political Theology, that all these mysterious poisonings- where are the Skripal’s … Continue reading

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edward.luce@ft.com conjures a Demon? Political Observer comments

The Second American Civil War is just evolving as the ‘norm’ , in our country, with the bad actors The Proud Boys, the Boogaloo Bois, and the Political Class’ favorite Antifa– Mr. Luce ‘conjures’ QAnon, as the epitome of what … Continue reading

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Janan Ganesh, John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge & Garett Jones on ‘To Much Democracy’. Political Skeptic comments

In America, the  two houses of Congress, The Senate and the House of Representatives, not to speak of the Electoral College, are the checks against ‘too much democracy’ of The Founders. The Good Grey Mr. Walter Lippmann advocated a cadre … Continue reading

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‘Posh Girl’& ‘Associate Editor at the Financial Times’, Rana Foroohar declares the End of The Neo-Liberal Age? Political Observer asks a question.

 Ms. Foroohar, in her essay,  on the deteriorating relations between China and Trump, offers some thoughts on the fate of Neo-Liberalism, or have I misread?  Headline: China wants to decouple from US tech, too Sub-headline:Washington’s restrictions have only sped Beijing’s … Continue reading

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‘Russian Interference’: the politically un-dead, via Kamala Harris & other dubious actors, in The Financial Times. American Skeptic scoffs!

In the watershed of the complete collapse of The Mueller Report & Schiff’s well rehearsed Mini-Series, that produced Stars Vindman and Fiona Hill – while the political longevity of this melodrama was non-existent. The release of the original testimony secured … Continue reading

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Janan Ganesh’s Hipster L.A. American Writer comments

Mr. Ganesh is my favorite flâneur! He can write a feuilleton, the rhetoric of the Sunday Supplement’s decorous chatter, like no other writer in America or Britain. His only possible competition is James Wolcott , once of Vanity Fair. As … Continue reading

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Lecturing about ‘Violence’ as’the weapon of the stupid’ is the stance of the respectable bourgeois intellectual, out of touch with the desperation/nihilism of the have not’s!The American Political Class: corrupt Neo-Liberals could not pass a $600 a week lifeline, to … Continue reading

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The Financial Times’ Editors political/economic romance, with Emmanuel Macron, is an embarrassment. American Skeptic comments

There is noting quite like the Financial Times’ Editors political/economic romance with Emmanuel Macron! Even in the face of the platitudinous, or is it high drama?, collapse of Neo-Liberalism, precipitated by The Pandemic: the notion that the Keynesian approach, adopted … Continue reading

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Oren Cass, in The Financial Times, on the ‘post-Trumpian soul’ of the Republican Party. American Skeptic comments

Should the reader be at all surprised that Mr. Cass is the executive director of ‘American Compass’ ? It’s another Think Tank. The quotation from Russell Kirk leaves no doubt :  ‘”A sound economy cannot exist without a political state … Continue reading

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Reading List September 02,2020

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