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Headline: Emmanuel Macron makes radical appeal for more powerful EU Sub-headline: French leader soft-pedals on eurozone reform in speech brimming with proposals https://www.ft.com/content/37c54ebc-a2ad-11e7-9e4f-7f5e6a7c98a2 Macron proclaims a Neo-Liberal New Deal? Jupertarian/Authoritarian politics as argued by the E.U.’s FDR? What of those tens … Continue reading →

Neo-Con David Brooks just can’t let go of the 1960’s. He was born in 1961, so he was 7 in 1968, the heyday of Abby Hoffman. As the protege of Wm. F. Buckley Jr., he just repeats the Buckley Hysterics … Continue reading →

Headline: Mélenchon plays old tunes to mobilize the opposition to Macron Sub-headline: The veteran leftist is leading the resistance to the president’s reform agenda The headline and sub-headline tell the story, but the reader can only marvel at Ms Chassany’s opening … Continue reading →

Never fear Mr. Luce’s lack of candor and failure to confront the Republican Party’s ‘rapprochement’ with racism, since Goldwater, and the exodus of the Dixiecrats from the Democratic Party, into the Republican Party:this after the passage of the Civil Rights … Continue reading →

Ms. Rana Foroohar opens her essay with an attack on a well practiced American tradition of public protest. If you feel you have been wronged, especially when it is by an institutionalized power, you take  your case to the Court … Continue reading →

‘Uber’ is NOT ‘a ride-hailing service‘! It is a Neo-Liberal scheme, to avoid the power of municipalities and states to regulate taxi services, in the public interest! TINA, as Mrs. Thatcher used to opine, is the position of this newspaper! … Continue reading →

Rich Lowry’s latest essay features the two villains of American Conservatism: ‘liberal analysts’ and the scourge of  ‘a valueless international relativism’! Mr. Lowry suffers from an advanced case of a self-serving ideological myopia, because those ‘liberal analysts’ are in fact … Continue reading →

Is it a surprise that The Financial Times provides editorial/advertising space to a plutocrat with something to pitch: Bloomberg Global Business Forum? Mr. Bloomberg presents himself as the antidote to the Trump Political Nihilism. Here is his indictment of Trump: … Continue reading →

I read Mr. Luce’s essay last night. I checked America’s political gossip sheet, Politico, this morning looking for some critique of the Trump UN address. Where are those fabled ‘Adults in the Room’ (Scowcroft, Baker, etc.), who presented themselves as … Continue reading →

Its not at all surprising that Samantha Power’s byline should appear in the pages of The Paper of Record, The New York Times  . This newspaper has been one of the many propaganda arms of The American Empire. Look at … Continue reading →