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January 17, 2025
TG 1783: Can The Gaza Ceasefire Deal Survive Netanyahu?

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle discuss the Gaza ceasefire-hostage agreement, President-elect Trump's role in securing it and its prospects for survival given Prime Minister Netanyahu's long record of crafty destructiveness.

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January 17, 2025
TG 1784: Zombified NATO Prepares To For War Against Russia In The Baltic

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle discuss NATO's mindless preparations to fight a war against Russia in the Baltic without having even worked out a reason for doing so.

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January 15, 2025
TG 1782: The Gaggle Talks To Kevork Almassian

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle were once again joined by podcaster and political analyst Kevork Almassian to discuss Syria, Gaza and what lies ahead in the Middle East.

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January 13, 2025
Monday Night At The Movies: "Breaker Morant" (1980)

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The Gaggle Book Club: "The Dark Side of Camelot" By Seymour Hersh

Each week, the Gaggle Book Club recommends a book for Gagglers to read and—most important—uploads a pdf version of it.

Our practice is 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 of undoubted interest and intellectual importance.

Today's book club selection is Seymour Hersh's "The Dark Side of Camelot." Published in 1997, the book offers a very negative view of President John F. Kennedy and his administration, challenging the mythic image of "Camelot" and the idealized portrait of Kennedy family's legacy of public service. Hersh presents JFK as a deeply flawed figure whose private behavior and shady political dealings had serious consequences for the country.

Much of the story Hersh recounts has been well known, though meticulously obscured, for years. Kennedy's Mob connections, his incessant womanizing, his addiction to drugs, his ...

Seymour_M._Hersh_-_The_Dark_Side_of_Camelot-Back_Bay_Books_(1998).pdf
January 16, 2025
Monday Night At The Movies

Please choose which one of the following 8 movies you would like to have screened next Monday, Jan. 20. The theme is "wrongful accusation of sex crimes."

Please continue to vote after Jan. 20, so that we can determine the runner-up. The runner-up will be screened on Jan. 27.

January 16, 2025
No Inaugural Invitation For Orban

Giorgia Meloni got an invite; Xi Jinping got an invite; Javier Milei got an invite; Nigel Farage got an invite. But not Viktor Orban. Can't figure out what that's about. Suggested explanations are most welcome.
https://dailynewshungary.com/orban-not-invited-to-trumps-inauguration/

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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