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Least Exciting Climax Ever: Turkey Agrees To Sweden's Induction Into NATO

In what has to be the least interesting soap opera cliffhanger of all the time, Turkey's President Erdogan has signed off on Sweden's accession into NATO. Rug merchant Erdogan also said the other day that Ukraine deserves NATO membership and that he hopes that in future Black Sea grain deals will be extended every three months, not every two months as at present.

Next unexciting cliffhanger: Russia agrees to extend the Black Sea grain deal for another three months! But with the proviso--sternly enunciated by Putin--that, unless Russia sees some progress from its Western partners on meeting some of Russia's demands on its own grain exports, this will be positively, finally, definitively, unequivocally the last time Russia extends the grain deal.

Though Russia gets very little out of the agreement and though very little of Ukraine's grain reaches the world's hungry, Russia will doubtless decide that it's still extremely important to keep in with its good friend Erdogan.

Erdogan has never done anything to help Russia--he shot a Russian plane out of the sky, he runs the biggest al Qaeda operation in the world--but for some reason Russians take him to be a good friend of theirs. Talk about abused-wife syndrome.

https://www.politico.eu/article/turkey-sweden-nato-jens-stoltenberg-agrees-to-back-swedens-membership-bid/

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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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