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It is more than interesting that Mr. Sand worked, in his youth, for a radio repair factory, in Jaffa, and was bowled over by The Mandarins, or at least Ms. de Beauvoir’s depiction of the world of an ingrown coterie … Continue reading →

The final votes in the 2017 French elections were Macron 20,257,167 , Le Pen 10,584,646, Abstentions 11, 416,454, White or spoiled ballots 4, 045,395. The Rolling Strikes represent not just the ‘over-privileged’ Union members, as argued by Macron and his … Continue reading →

Mark Mazower’s ‘capsule reviews’ of these five books offers an insight into the avoidance of the role that the Corporatist imperative has/had played in the rise of Fascism! Not surprising that the Financial Times would avoid, at all cost, this … Continue reading →

The Financial Times editors couldn’t trust this essay proclaiming the Good News  of Macron’s ‘Reform’ of the railways, along with his other Neo-Liberalizations of France, to its usual stable of apologists for the dismal, indeed demonstrable failure, of this particular … Continue reading →

Andy Divine in his latest essay takes on the vexing question of Gina Haspel. Mr. Divine’s record of support for the Iraq War is recorded here in his 136 page mea culpa: This edited by his hirelings Mr. Appel and … Continue reading →

I saw this essay by Mr. Luce last week and have tried to ignore it , yet it keeps returning to my thoughts. Like that grain of sand in an oyster? Perhaps the spectacle of this Neo-Liberal advocate/apologist  pointing to … Continue reading →

With Macri in Argentina, Macron in France, and Moreno now in power in Ecuador fulfills the Neo-Liberal wet dream. The object lesson of North America and most of Europe with the destructive, indeed nihilistic power of that Free Market, is … Continue reading →

The readership of Andy Divine needn’t worry. He returns today ,in all his self-defensive verbosity: he wants to assure his readers that his beliefs about the natural inferiority of black people is scientifically based. He manages to sound the rhetoric … Continue reading →

Nothing can rescue Mr. Tim Harford’s jejune chatter,  as a pastiche of economic wisdom, but the Gallup’s annoyingly chirpy question goes a long way to explaining the utter trivialization of  the implied question in the headline : A monetary remedy … Continue reading →

According to Mr. Giles the law of cause and effect has somehow been annulled, as an @FT propagandist, he follows the Party Line with a few enhancements. Or should the reader call his extemporizing on, by now, shopworn  themes of … Continue reading →