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Mr. Douthat on ‘the working class male’: a comment by Almost Marx

You have to credit Mr. Ross Douthat with persistence, or more accurately, with an unrelenting ideological fixation with the behavior of the lowers orders of political humanity: the working class. By which he means those shiftless poor who won’t, out … Continue reading

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Geoff Dyer leavenes his meditation on the CIA Report with some thoughts on the ‘Deep State’ and a collection of political cliches

In the first paragraph Mr. Dyer’s essay he repeats what might be or is the Nihilist Republican Party Line on the very weak President Obama: not just a lame duck, but on the political critical list, as a result of … Continue reading

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The Economist on the Torture Report (December 9,2014) , a comment by Almost Marx

Give Sen. McCain a few political moments to regain his ideological composure.He will quickly join the apologetic lock step of the torture rationalizers. Sen. McCain has long since spent his moral capital: D.K. makes a bad misstep to begin her/his … Continue reading

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On the Hollande/Putin meeting as repoted on in the Financial Times, a comment by Political Cynic

Left un-mentioned in this news story are some important but inconvenient facts concerning the current ‘Ukrainian Crisis’, that is due to western political meddling: Victoria Nuland, Amb. Pyatt and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in concert with the … Continue reading

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Mr. Luce, Mr. Carter and Sen McCain: a comment by Political Realist

Mr. Luce can’t quite contain his enthusiasm for Mr. Carter, whose credentials and experience look to be near perfect for a Pentagon bureaucrat, in fact he is a creature of the American National Security State. What he lacks, in common … Continue reading

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David Brooks on Ferguson or Cockeyed Platonist explaines it all! An essay by Political Cynic

David Brooks in his December 1, 2014 essay titled Class Prejudice Resurgent (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/opinion/david-brooks-class-prejudice-resurgent.html?_r=0) offers his usual ideologically based, deliberate misreading of race relations in American, of the present, as not based on racial prejudice but as centered on ‘classism’. He … Continue reading

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On Hillary Clinton’s rickety bridge to the White House: a comment by PoIitical Observer

I printed a copy of Edward Luce’s essay of November 30, 2014 on Hillary Clinton: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/e84aa190-76f2-11e4-8273-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3KhGhi6Q6 I printed it last night so that this morning I could read it without resort to the computer. I wasn’t surprised at the ideologically … Continue reading

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Political Realist on Match restraint with implacable robustness or a collection of cliches

Mr. Stephens has to be congratulated for staying so close to the script of the respectable Foreign Policy chatterer, while seeming to impart a seasoned wisdom to the reader. Absent from the essay is any mention of the 100 to … Continue reading

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Luce,Douthat,Vienna & the almost of the Hegel ‘resignation’: a comment by Political Observer

Recall if you will the Edward Luce essay of November 21,2014 ‘Yes I can,says Obama’: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/6e1e0428-7127-11e4-85d5-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=intl#axzz3K2C2V2jX In which Mr. Luce in his very clever way engages in nearly faint praise for the President and almost scolds the Republicans for their … Continue reading

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Almost Marx on Detroit Bankruptcy and The Economist

Not one mention of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick or his co-conspirators UBS Bank and Bank of America in the wholesale looting of the city of Detroit? Congratulation to V.V.B for carefully eliding from the essay the important political actors except for … Continue reading

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