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Philip Stephens, Gideon Rachman, Ramzy Mardini and Edward Luce express in varying tonalities, in The Financial Times over the last few weeks, the political schizophrenia of the moment: in response to the latest fear mongering about ISIL, their murderous brutality, … Continue reading →

Not at all surprised that your Susan Glasser essay is absent a comments section: ‘Putin profits politically from wars and western apologists’ http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/6512d3c8-2955-11e4-8b81-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3BM3PdBtC Even the Edward Luce essay of August 17, 2014:’Obama’s Hippocratic oath enfeebles his diplomacy’ was a more convincing and better written piece of propaganda, … Continue reading →

I posted this on August 21, 2014: Political Cynic on Strobe Talbott Mr. Strobe Talbott is an historian who writes history made to self-serving ideological measure. His long paraphrases of the war mongering William Safire, in his opening paragraph serves … Continue reading →

The failure of America’s policy intellectuals that inhabit both government and various ‘think tanks’ and front organizations is surly a phenomenon that defies…. Political Cynic Mr. Aaron David Miller is a man and Policy Intellectual who represents American failure in … Continue reading →

Let’s file this Ryan poverty proposal with his infamous Budget Proposals, that Mr. Douthat dubbed ‘policy entrepreneurship’, a grotesque euphemism for propaganda! The White Male Ethos, a la Mitt Romney, that currently rules the Modern Republican Party, asks in the … Continue reading →

Neo-Con scribbler Mr. Rogin reports on General Dempsey utterly hypocritical, mendacious assertion: It does change the situation. You’ve got a Russian government that has made a conscious decision to use its military force inside another sovereign nation to achieve its … Continue reading →

One needs to ask the only real pertinent question of Mr Rumer: where have you been? This essay is the captive of the propaganda frame of the American National Security State i.e. that the Ukrainian Coup was ‘spontaneous uprising’. The … Continue reading →

Mr. Walt, in his essay of March 3,2014 titled No Contest wants to reassure his readers of his bourgeois political respectability, although at some points in his essay, the truth will out over that reassurance: ‘Mind you: I’m not defending Putin’s … Continue reading →

I posted this on July 1, 2014 via TwitLonger, yet I feel that I missed an important point about this propaganda and its framing. Mr. Douthat does not so much as praise the Hobby Lobby decision, as much as he … Continue reading →

On the dangers of ‘Escapism’ and ‘Futility’ This is also escapism, however, for there is a myth embedded in this plea of futility. It is that wielding power effectively was ever any easier than it is today. With rose-colored glasses … Continue reading →