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December 06, 2024
TG 1753: Democracy E.U.-Style: Romania Annuls Election

George Szamuely discusses what has become the entirely predictable response within the E.U. to the rise of a populist nationalist political figure: outright cancellation of an election that he threatens to win.

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December 06, 2024
TG 1752: The Gaggle Talks To Kevork Almassian

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle sat down for a long, fascinating conversation about current events in Syria and the Middle East with political analyst and podcaster Kevork Almassian.

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December 04, 2024
TG 1751: The Gaggle Talks To Ambassador Peter Ford

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle sat down for a conversation about events in Syria with Peter Ford, former U.K. ambassador to Syria.

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The Gaggle Book Club

After having given the matter some thought, we are finally launching The Gaggle Book Club. Every week, we will recommend a book for Gagglers to read and—most important—we will upload a pdf version of it.

One need hardly add that we do not vouch for the reliability or accuracy of any book we recommend. Still less, do we necessarily agree with a recommended book's central arguments. However, any book we recommend will be one of undoubted interest and intellectual importance.

To kick off The Gaggle Book Club, we recommend E.H. Carr’s "The Twenty Years’ Crisis, 1919–1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations." Published in 1939, Carr’s work is a pithy, often sarcastic, critique of the interwar period’s idealistic approach to international diplomacy.

Carr was the founder of the modern “realist” school within the theory of international relations. He anticipated by several decades many of John Mearsheimer’s insights. Carr detested what he labeled “utopian” or...

E._H._Carr_-_The_Twenty_Years__Crisis,_1919-1939__An_Introduction_to_the_Study_of_International_Relations__-MacMillan_and_Co._Ltd._(1946).pdf
December 05, 2024
Monday Night At The Movies

Please choose which one of the following 8 movies you would like to have screened next Monday, Dec. 9. The theme is "cinema and psychoanalysis."

Please continue to vote after Dec. 9, so that we can determine the runner-up. The runner-up will be screened on Dec. 16.

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This monumental epic fail is 99% on the Russians

World War Now:
CNN:

US officials believe Turkey gave the HTS a green light to launch its operation in Syria last week.

@KurdishFrontNews

🇸🇾 ⚠️❗️ — Confirmed: General withdrawal of the Syrian Arab Army from Homs to Tartous, Northwestern Syria

🇸🇾⚡- Hayat Tahrir al-Sham media claim the Syrian Arab Army withdrew from Homs, and that the city has fallen to their control.

🇸🇾⚡- Reuters just confirmed SAA withdrawal from Homs.

🇸🇾⚡- "The army is repositioning itself around the city of Homs," - Ahmad Ali, pro-Assad frontline journalist, confirms the withdrawal from the city.

🇸🇾 - Latakia and Tartus are now under siege. Completely cut off from Damascus.

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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