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@NYT Zionist @tomfriedman attempts to come to terms with the reality of ‘The Zionist Faschist State’, in 1,402 words.
Almost Marx offers a reductive selection, of a kind… Israel today is a boiler with way, way too much steam building up inside, and the bolts are about to fly off in all directions. Israel has never experienced a Palestinian … Continue reading
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@TheEconomist re-writes itself & scolds Olaf Scholz: April 23, 2022 & February 23, 2023.
Political Observer notes that the scolding of Olaf Schultz, is about his failure to genuflect to the American National Securest State’s imperatives. Editor @zannymb agrees. ‘In the quick forge and working-house of thought’ Kudos h.hackett@ucl.ac.uk Let me begin with the … Continue reading
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On the rewards of reading The Times Literary Supplement of February 17, 2023? (Revised)
Political Cynic comments on this once valued publication. Not much here, but the news that Mailer was buried in his boxing gear. I recall reading a paperback of Mailer’s ‘An American Dream’ that I purchased at a liquor store on … Continue reading
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Government employee @MarkGaleotti’s Putinology, @thetimes.
Political Observer comments. Headline: Isolated, out of touch, but clinging on: how Russians see Putin Sub-headline: A year on from the disastrous invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin could be just one crisis away from collapse https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-perceptions-putin-evolved-one-year-russia-ukraine-war-b79xh0xgr The reader might wonder … Continue reading
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David Brooks asserts that ‘America Should Be in the Middle of a Schools Revolution’.
Political Observer checks Mr. Brooks’ sources Mr. Brookes begins here: “The coronavirus caused by far the biggest disruption in the history of American education,” Meira Levinson and Daniel Markovits wrote in The Atlantic last year. Things have not reverted back to normal … Continue reading
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@RichLowry considers the candidacy Nikki Haley.
Political Observer comments, and quotes from McGeorge Bundy’s 1952 review of ‘God and Man at Yale’. Some ‘highlights’ from the utterly unimpressive @RichLowry essay, on the equally unimpressive Nikki Haley: Headline: Opinion | The Real Reason Nikki Haley May Struggle … Continue reading
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@tomfriedman Zionist Apologist/Shill opines on The Economic Visionary/Neo-Faschist Netanyahu, in 1,461 words…
Almost Marx confronts a New York Times Public Intellectual! The opening paragraphs of Mr. Friedman’s ‘almost defence’ of Netanyahu is awash in carefully laundered gush: If you want to understand the economic riskiness and moral fraudulence of Prime Minister Benjamin … Continue reading
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The Times celebratory, even ecstatic report on Corbyn’s Excommunication from The Labour Party!
The Reader has to be unsurprised by The Times celebratory, even ecstatic ‘reportage’ regarding the expulsion of Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party. Starmer has always been Tony Blair’s political catamite. Starmer offers no real threat to Blair, whom Mrs. … Continue reading
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Upon the arrival of Vivek Ramaswamy… Let the ‘woke’ beware? Or The Plutocrat Cometh…
Almost Marx follows the incense, and kowtowing… What does ‘woke’ mean? Think of the hysterics who inveigh against this- what it means is no longer a concern, but it is that elusive ‘substance’ , a political non-sequitur …that fires the … Continue reading
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Is France’s Political Romance with Neo-Liberal Macron at an end point? I’m sounding the notes of the bankrupt @NYT Public Intellectuals, or imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?
Almost Marx reads @Peter_Conradi on Brigitte Macron Headline: Brigitte Macron ‘advises president on understanding the French Less than a year into his second term President Macron cuts an increasingly isolated figure: his ratings are poor, the team that helped him … Continue reading
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