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December 23, 2022
TG 973: The Plot That Took Down President Richard M. Nixon

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle say down with author and attorney Geoff Shepard to recall Watergate and the people who, 50 years ago, plotted to take down down a president and to nullify the greatest electoral landslide in U.S. history.

https://shepardonwatergate.com/

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TG 1956: Iran Running Out Of Road As U.N. Sanctions Snap Back

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle discuss the decision of the E-3 powers of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action to recommend to the U.N. Security Council that all of the sanctions against Iran that were lifted back in 2015 snap back into place.

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TG 1955: Trump's Strange Obsession With Overthrowing Maduro

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle discuss President Trump's bizarre, longstanding determination to overthrow the government of Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro.

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TG 1954: Trump Weighs Whom To Sanction Over Evermore Elusive Ukraine Deal

George Szamuely discusses President Trump's diminishing prospects for bringing the war in Ukraine to a speedy end, even as Coalition of Willing states continue to plan for massive deployments of NATO troops in the increasingly-unlikely event of a Ukraine agreement.

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January 21, 2023
More Leftie Than Thou
"Jacobin" Magazine Celebrates A Strike Against Ol' Blue Eyes

Here at "The Gaggle" we have very little time for the "more Leftie than thou" school of thought--that's the approach to life according to which the only thing that matters is whether you take the right position on every issue under the sun from Abortion to Zelensky. No one in the world meets the exacting standards of this school of thought; any Leftie leader anywhere is always selling out to the bankers and the capitalists. The perfect exemplar of this is the unreadable Jacobin magazine. 

The other day I came across this article from 2021. It's a celebration of trade union power. And not simply trade union power, but the use of trade union power to secure political goals. Of course (and this is always the case with the "more Leftie than thou" crowd), this glorious, never-to-be-forgotten moment on the history of organized labor took place many years ago--in the summer of 1974 to be exact. Yes, almost half a century has gone by since that thrilling moment when the working-class movement of Australia mobilized and prepared to seize the means of production, distribution and exchange. 

Well, not quite. Organized labor went into action against...Ol' Blue Eyes, the Chairman of the Board, the Voice; yes, Frank Sinatra. Why? What had Sinatra done? Sinatra was certainly very rich, and he owned a variety of properties and businesses. But if the Australian trade union movement were, understandably, searching for the bright, incandescent spark that would finally awaken the working class from its slumber there were surely richer, greedier, more dishonest, more decadent, above all more Australian individuals it could have discovered. Australia was never short of them. Rupert Murdoch immediately springs to mind. Why Sinatra?

 

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