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TG 1134: Hell Is Stoltenberg Mouthing Imbecilities Forever

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle discuss NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg's recent interview with the editorial board of the "Washington Post," in which he once again turned logic, reason and common sense on their heads to arrive at his usual imbecilic conclusions.

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TG 1921: Has Trump Now Adopted Biden's Policy On Ukraine?

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle discuss President Trump's recent tirades against Russian President Putin along with warm, complimentary noises about Ukrainian President Zelensky, and wonder whether the U.S. president has now abandoned the policy of America First and instead adopted the policy of Joe Biden.

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TG 1920: MAGA In Uproar Over DOJ's Epstein Damage Control. Who's To Blame?

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle discuss the uproar among the MAGA faithful over the U.S. Department of Justice memo that claims that there was no Jeffrey Epstein client list and no international blackmail ring, and that he died by suicide. How did we get to this?

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Strasbourg, FRANCE – A serene and smiling Ursula von der Leyen won't be sweating about the motion of censure that aims to torpedo her European Commission on Thursday.

By casting the motion as a frenzied far-right push from pro-Putin MEPs during a brief debate on Monday, she successfully reframed the debate as one of good against evil and democracy against illiberalism.

If that wasn't enough, she diverted attention further away from the motion's contents by underlining the need for the EU to show unity in the midst of geopolitical hurricanes.

In that she was helped not only by her own European People’s Party ally Manfred Weber, but by all of the European Parliament's centrist groups: the Socialists, the liberals and the Greens. All have now said they won't back the motion because of the toxic far-right fingerprints it carries. It will fail on Thursday and soon be forgotten.

Von der Leyen did address some of the issues raised by the motion head on, including a recent court ruling ...

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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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