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Thanks. I read a review and

A Guy Called LULU — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 14:05:57 +0000

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Thanks. I read a review and tried to order it for my kindle to beguin reading as I fly home. Amazon sent the following:

Name deleted, this title is not available for you.

Due to copyright restrictions, the Kindle title you're trying to purchase is not available in your country/region.

Did you recently move to a new country/region?

I am about to step out the door. I will get it when I get home.

Apropos of nothing, but have

AmericanDreamer — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 13:35:36 +0000

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Apropos of nothing, but have you read Notes on a Foreign Country, LULU (or others)? If so, what did you think of it? I thought of you on coming across a reference to it.

Thanks for the link, Dreamer.

A Guy Called LULU — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 17:44:26 +0000

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Thanks for the link, Dreamer. I will check it out for sure. Coming to your comment got me reading much of the other previous comments in this thread and again particularly appreciating those of you and moat.

Also related (I believe it is

AmericanDreamer — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 16:36:03 +0000

In reply to Also Killing Hope: U.S.

Also related (I believe it is downloadable at no cost):

Liberalism and Big Sticks: The Politics of U.S. Interventions in Latin America, 1898-2004, John H. Coatsworth

the perfect the enemy of the

artappraiser — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 23:14:10 +0000

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the perfect the enemy of the good

Many of us have long said Trump will blow up the world to save himself. We've been painted as alarmists. It may not be too long, with John Bolton advising Trump on national security, before we're called "realists" instead. Note that many ex-intel community people share this view.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) March 22, 2018

AA. the article mentioned

A Guy Called LULU — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 22:20:33 +0000

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AA. the article mentioned Breitbart in a provocative sub-headline and then once again in the final paragraph. The article is not about comparing MSNBC to Breitbart, it is about MSNBC ignoring a very important topic. It is about what the headline says; "In Run-Up to Vote to End Yemen War, MSNBC Remains Totally Silent" The single sentence in the body of the article which mentions Breitbart is:

It’s extra disconcerting that MSNBC is being outflanked from the left by Breitbart, which has covered efforts to end the war a dozen or so times—likely for cynical, nativist reasons.

In context, the placing Breitbart to the left of MSNC is based totally on the number of times that the respective sites gave any coverage to the story. Every bit of the rest of the article is about MSNBC's almost total lack of coverage of what many consider to be an important topic and one certainly worth at least some coverage. Fair [and I] believe that during the time that MSNBC tallied 143 segments on Stormy Daniels they could have given some tiny amount of coverage to a devastating war that depends on the U.S. and so is one that the U.S. is actually in a position to stop if they so chose. To criticize the article as if its point was to compare MSNBC with Breitbart is to show a complete missing of the point, IMO.

If you really are interested in foreign policy, you are in the wrong place on cable TV news in general.

I don't depend on cable for anything but I believe that it is an important source of news for a great number of people and a powerful influence on their opinions. That makes noticing what they cover, and how they cover it, worth the noticing.

You care about foreign policy and war being covered in video "broadcast" form? you're gonna have to subscribe to a specialty niche channel on Hulu or something.

My link was not to a video broadcast but sometimes I do link to one of several that I follow. Video broadcast form has some advantages over print along with some shortcomings when it comes to sharing what they offer. They take longer than reading and there is seldom a transcript that allows quoting thru copy and paste but I feel sure you would agree that there is important nuance that can be observed watching a speaker that is unavailable, or at least harder to convey in print. Can you recommend any niche channel that you feel offers good perspective on FP?

You can't make most people care, Lulu. Not a mass market in any society, ... ...

It seems pretty easy to make a hell of a lot of Democrats "care" about what the Republicans are doing and vice a versa while they can find it easy to "not care" about mistakes or cynically wrong choices that their own party of choice have made. MSNBC and Fox are the most obvious examples.

Totally faulty analogy there.

artappraiser — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 21:58:51 +0000

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Totally faulty analogy/comparison there. Comparing Breitbart and MSNBC is comparing apples and oranges. It should be Fox News coverage vs. MSNBC coverage of Yemen. If you really are interested in foreign policy, you are in the wrong place on cable TV news in general. Ted Turner's CNN used to do it, then they nearly went out of business when FOX and MSNBC started doing the domestic political stuff, they learned they had to do it too.

And even that mass market world is not long for this society. You care about foreign policy and war being covered in video "broadcast" form? you're gonna have to subscribe to a specialty niche channel on Hulu or something.

You can't make most people care. Not a mass market in any society, it's not exclusive to the U.S. "All politics is local." Especially without a draft for military service. It's just the way it is.

In Run-Up to Vote to End

A Guy Called LULU — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 19:38:03 +0000

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In Run-Up to Vote to End Yemen War, MSNBC Remains Totally Silent. What use is having a “liberal” cable network if it remains silent on the major issues facing the left?

The New New Cold War

A Guy Called LULU — Sun, 11 Mar 2018 22:44:11 +0000

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The New New Cold War

“The goal of (Russia’s)

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:20:06 +0000

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“The goal of (Russia’s) meddling is not to help one side or the other but to get extreme opinions clashing to undermine the fabric of Western society and institutions,” Rinkēvičs said.