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Anatole Kaletsky on a Greek suicide? A comment by Almost Marx

Prof. Francesco Giavazzi’s essay at the Financial Times takes a more belligerent attitude toward the Greeks than Mr. Kaletsky, here: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/2bc11fe8-0dd5-11e5-9a65-00144feabdc0.html?hubRefSrc=email&utm_source=lfemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=lfnotification#lf_comment=326599569 Mr. Kaletsky’s has impeccable Neo-Liberal credentials and he lets the Greeks know that their blackmail scheme won’t work, if … Continue reading

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FT and Prof. Giavazzi

Prof. Francesco Giavazzi’s essay is full of hyperbole, that first demonstrates a certain ignorance of  American politics in this : ‘Imagine President Barack Obama taking part in high-level talks for months on end, where little was on the agenda except … Continue reading

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The Greek Crisis: Three essays, a comment by Almost Marx

The first of these essays dated June 6,2015 is titled Chronicle of a struggle in which quite surprisingly Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls, Mr Tsipras literary contribution to the debate, followed by the Oxbridger’s literary contribution of Joseph K. of … Continue reading

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Elias Isquith, Reagan apologist, a comment by Political Observer

Instead of wasting your time reading Mr. Isquith’s ‘Liberal’ apologetics for Reagan, go to The American Conservative and read Daniel Larison’s The Perils of Reaganolatry! http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/the-perils-of-reaganolatry/ ‘The trouble for the GOP isn’t just that younger voters don’t remember Reagan, but … Continue reading

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Bruce Bawer considers the incomplete correspondence of Henry James

If you can tolerate Bruce Bawer’s almost insufferable attack on the ‘decadence of the present’, surely an idea freighted with political/cultural animus born of a reactionary politics, his seeming attack on scholarship in the age of the decline of print, … Continue reading

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@RepScottPeters

Dear Rep. Peters, Thank you for your prompt e mail response to my phone call to your office of last week, regarding the proposed secret TPP and it’s twin Fast Track Authority. One of the many questions a voter might … Continue reading

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Piketty defines Economics

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/jun/25/practical-vision-more-equal-society/ ‘Toward a New Radical Reformism Anthony Atkinson occupies a unique place among economists. During the past half-century, in defiance of prevailing trends, he managed to place the question of inequality at the center of his work while demonstrating that … Continue reading

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Putin as The New Stalin, as stock character in Economist Melodrama

The Economist supplies Western propaganda as answer to Putin Propaganda? The New Cold War with Putin as The New Stalin has reached the point of no return. Are we continually ruled by manufactured crises? What should we readers think of … Continue reading

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Political Observer comments on the essay ‘A Dangerious Modesty’ at The Economist

A damming bill of attainder! It reads like a revised script laid down by The Project for a New American Century. Or even an essay written by Neo-Imperial wunderkind Niall Ferguson, with the heavy hand of an editor, to excise … Continue reading

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Philip Stephens on Tsipras and unavoidable pain, a comment by Almost Marx

The ‘ clientelist and corrupt bureaucracy’ that Mr. Stephens refers to in his essay are the very people that conspired with Goldman Sachs to hide the true extent of Greek indebtedness, as the in order to of more debt! This … Continue reading

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