Brexit
LIONEL PODCAST: Donald Trump Will Be A Great President With Obama Pathetically Ineffectual
Verity. Donald Trump will likely be one of the greatest Presidents of our republic. And Obama one of the most ineffectual. Meanwhile, Hillary apologists are trying to reconfigure the logic anent Trump’s appointees. They’ve nothing to say since abandoning the Russian hack bit.
BREXIT UPDATE: COMMONS VOTES OVERWHELMINGLY TO PROCEED WITH BREXIT
Well in case you haven't heard, there's been some grumbling of shocked defeat across the pond in the United Kingdom, where globaloneyist sore losers…
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LIONEL PODCAST: Free Speech Under Attack: Deep State Promotes Fake News and False Flag Putin Election Hacking Myths
Prolegomenon. Let us begin with an immutable fact of human behavior, specifically contemporary American behavior. Americans simply hate the truth. The troublesome truth, the uncomfortable and (dare I remind you) the inconvenient truth. Truth that bristles and frightens and awakens and piques. Truth that confronts us with the lie of contemporary fable masked as history. History, as Tolstoy reminds us, would be a wonderful thing if only it were true. Truth would be a wonderful thing if only it were pleasant.
Democratising Europe – interviewed by James Lock for NOW THEN magazine
In recent years we have seen far more of the workings behind the curtain of neoliberalism than we ever have before. This is in part, I believe, due to the work of Yanis Varoufakis. A Greek economist educated in Britain, … Continue reading →
I Am Foreign-Born: Do My Views on Brexit Count?
The use of foreign-born to precede the name of a person by some newspapers when discussing Brexit, insinuating that their views are suspect, is troubling and divisive. The debate by the leave campaigners is being increasingly framed in terms of patriotism and nationalism, and being foreign-born, presumably, one is not considered patriotic enough. Language and words matter.
LIONEL PODCAST: Before #FakeNews There Was the #ConspiracyTheory
Fake News and Alt-Right are the latest incantations of the attempt to reroute discussion and illumination of fraud and governmental deceit. Before them was the granddaddy of deflection: the conspiracy theory.
Reflections on the nature & causes of global financial uncertainty – Amsterdam 4th DEC 2016
On 4th December 2016 I delivered the keynote at the RiskMinds International risk management conference in Amsterdam. A summary of my talk, compiled by the organisers, follows. What’s worse? Being a finance minister of a bankrupt state, or a risk … Continue reading →
Italy Moves Closer to a BREXIT – 5 Star Movement Poised to Challenge for Leadership Role
21st Century Wire says…
Brussels just trembled this week. The BREXIT populist wave is now sweeping into southern Europe, but now it’s not just about EU membership – it’s about the single currency.