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I am struck today by the idea that so many writers of opinion pieces, about current events, seem to need to impress on their readers their importance as thinkers and writers, and their connectedness to centers of power. I grow … Continue reading →

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The Temptation of the Impossible, Victor Hugo and Les Miserables by Mario Vargas Llosa

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http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/joan_walsh/index.html?story=/opinion/walsh/politics/2011/08/03/destroying_democratic_presidents&source=newsletter&utm_source=contactology&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Salon_Daily%20Newsletter%20%28Not%20Premium%29_7_30_110 Welcome to another episode of ‘It Happened to Joan’ that vital political melodrama played out in the pages of Salon, on a regular basis. Today Joan is wringing her hands over the treatment of Barack Obama at the hands … Continue reading →

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/08/01/284907/washington-post-rubin-norway/   Does it matter that Ms. Jennifer Rubin is an ardent Zionist on the Bibi model, also a Neoconservative, which is framed by the idea and practice of Jewish Exceptionalism. ( Please see The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and … Continue reading →

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Do not look upon the latest political developments of the last few weeks as the surrender of President Obama to the Tea Party Jacobins; rather view it as the Triumph of Neo-Liberalism, that ersatz political economy, that is essentially a … Continue reading →

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rocard35/English 'Simply put, there are no brakes that could stop the global economy from blundering into another financial crisis. Tax havens remain numerous, and their regulation anarchic. The skimpy enforcement measures undertaken by bank regulators since the crisis are nowhere … Continue reading →

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/07/30/debt_ceiling_14th_amendment&source=newsletter&utm_source=contactology&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Salon_Daily%20Newsletter%20%28Not%20Premium%29_7_30_110 Here is Steve Kornacki reporting for Salon on the Republican Party kowtowing to the radical fringe of political nihilists, namely the Tea Party, who do not believe in any concept of governance, but believe and practice the concept of … Continue reading →