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Headline:Biden frames 2020 as a fight between light and darkness Sub-headline: The Democratic nominee wants this presidential contest to be about character Crime Bill Joe & the California Attorney General ,who sent the parents of truant children to jail, Kamala … Continue reading →

How did I miss this essay by Mr. Ganesh? The only reason that I became aware of it was a tweet from Daniel Larison. Headline: The lost virtue of doubt Sub-headline: Sceptics such as the late Brent Scowcroft are the … Continue reading →

Headline: Russia says it is ready to provide Belarus with military support Sub-headline: Up to 200,000 people protest in Minsk as Kremlin give its backing and Nato says it is ‘closely monitoring’ situation https://www.ft.com/content/0f860c07-fc3b-4efb-8807-ff13950ce588 How obvious can this repeat of … Continue reading →

Headline:On Being a Biden Conservative Sub-headline: It’s about upholding your principles at the expense of your politics. Mr. Stephens can always be depended upon for proclaiming his political/moral uprightness, that equals the voice of political reason. Like his fellow traveler … Continue reading →

Headline: The decoupling of the US and China has only just begun Sub-headline: Business logic has been displaced by strategic rivalry The headline writers, for this newspaper, don’t bother with the usual highfalutin Neo-Liberal ‘Free Market’ rhetoric, but frame Rachman’s … Continue reading →

Should it surprise the reader that Mr. Luce begins his essay with a small quote from Timothy Geithner? ‘“plan beats no plan” What might the reader make of this demonstration of Mr. Geithner experience with ‘plan’? WASHINGTON — Treasury secretary … Continue reading →

Joe Biden’s choice of Harris as Vice-President has produced a surfeit of political chatter, that views this ‘team’ as The Answer to Trump. Harris as the Colonel House to Biden’s Wilson? This Party Line, in all its iterations, is tiresome … Continue reading →

Recall the hysterical, war mongering David Brooks of ‘The Collapse of the Dream Palaces’ ? https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/the-collapse-of-the-dream-palaces Mr. Brooks has ‘evolved’ over time, aided by his political opportunism, into an American Political Prophet. In his latest column its headline announces: ‘This … Continue reading →

With all the Marque Pundits on vacation, it falls the Mr. Ganesh to offer up his commentary on the Biden pick of Harris, as his vice-president. He mentions in passing Harris’ threat to jail the parents of truant children. The … Continue reading →

Mr. Stavridis’ rise to the top of the Military/Capitalist coterie’s Olympus is here made clear to the reader of his latest essay at Bloomberg Opinion: Headline: Brent Scowcroft Never Hated His Enemies Sub-headline: His realist approach to global affairs came … Continue reading →