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NYT Claims U.S. Abides by Cluster Bomb Treaty: The Exact Opposite of Reality
NYT Claims U.S. Abides by Cluster Bomb Treaty: The Exact Opposite of Reality The New York Times today has a truly bizarre article regarding the U.S. and cluster bombs. The advocacy group Cluster Munition Coalition just issued its annual report finding that cluster bombs had been used in five countries this year: Syria, Libya, Yemen, Ukraine and Sudan. This is what The […]
Paul Krugman “What Ails The World Right Now Is That Governments Aren’t Deep Enough In Debt”
Paul Krugman “What Ails The World Right Now Is That Governments Aren’t Deep Enough In Debt” This was written by a Nobel prize winning economist without a trace or sarcasm, irony or humor. It is excerpted, and presented without commentary. From the NYT: Debt Is Good … the point simply that public debt isn’t as bad as legend […]
The Delusions of David Frum’s Mind
The Delusions of David Frum’s Mind Stephen Harper make you worried and angry? Chill, says Canada’s prodigal Republican son. David Frum is not here anymore. That’s apparent from the defence of Stephen Harper he published in The Atlantic yesterday. It’s full of spin and falsehoods evident to those who actually live in Canada and are paying attention. […]
Economic Crisis Goes Mainstream – What Happens Next?
Economic Crisis Goes Mainstream – What Happens Next? Last year, when alternative economic analysts were warning that the commodities crush and oil crash just after the taper of QE3 were blaring signals for a downshift in all other financial indicators, the general response in the mainstream was that we were overreacting and paranoid and that […]
China Scrambles To Hide Toxic Fallout Of Tianjin Chemical Explosion
China Scrambles To Hide Toxic Fallout Of Tianjin Chemical Explosion Two days after an “apocalyptic” explosion in the port city of Tianjin killed at least 50 people and vaporized a bit of excess auto inventory, Chinese officials are struggling to explain what happened and reassure a nervous public. The blast – footage of which is reminiscent of a […]
The New York Times Warns About the Pentagon Labeling Journalists “Unprivileged Belligerents”
The New York Times Warns About the Pentagon Labeling Journalists “Unprivileged Belligerents” This post is a follow up to a piece I published in June titled: New Thousand Page Pentagon War Manual Potentially Lumps Journalists in with “Unprivileged Belligerents.” Here’s an excerpt: A 1,176 page Pentagon war manual was recently released that hasn’t received the attention it deserves. The book […]
Beyond the Real Time Catastrophe of Capital
Beyond the Real Time Catastrophe of Capital Dystopia Now A Pundit Takes on the Pope: “Dynamists” and “Catastroophists” In a recent column on Pope Francis’ latest encyclical, Laudato Si, the conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat says that “After this document, there’s no doubting where Francis stands in the great argument of our time….But,” Douthat elaborates, “I don’t mean […]
March Toward Global War
March Toward Global War Obama = McCarthy + Dulles Brothers The New York Times (NYT) is a trusted source of Administration thinking, particularly in foreign policy, more, an uncanny, sensitive barometer of deep-lying structural-military-diplomatic events which are presently culminating, beyond the New Cold War brewing since Clinton’s international posture in Europe and the Pacific, in […]
Media Lessons From Snowden Reporting: LA Times Editors Advocate Prosecution of Sources
Media Lessons From Snowden Reporting: LA Times Editors Advocate Prosecution of Sources Two years ago, the first story based on the Snowden archive was published in the Guardian, revealing a program of domestic mass surveillance which, at least in its original form, ended this week. To commemorate that anniversary, Edward Snowden himself reflected in a New York Times Op-Edon the “power of an informed public” […]
From Whence Cometh Our Wealth—–The People’s Labor Or The Fed’s Printing Press?
From Whence Cometh Our Wealth—–The People’s Labor Or The Fed’s Printing Press? It is hard to believe that in these allegedly enlightened times this question even needs to be asked. Are there really educated adults who believe that by dropping helicopter money conjured from thin air, the central bank can actually make society wealthier? Well, yes there […]
Twenty-Three Geniuses
Twenty-Three Geniuses If there is a Pulitzer Booby Prize for stupidity, waste no time in awarding it to The New York Times’ Monday feature, The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion. The former “newspaper of record” wants us to assume now that the sky’s the limit for human activity on the planet earth. Problemo cancelled. The article and […]
Noam Chomsky Reads the New York Times — Explains Why ‘Paper of Record’ Is Pure Propaganda
Noam Chomsky Reads the New York Times — Explains Why ‘Paper of Record’ Is Pure Propaganda From Laos to the Middle East, a roundup of Times stories that piqued the interest of the esteemed scholar. A front-page article is devoted to a flawed story about a campus rape in the journal Rolling Stone, exposed in […]
NEW YORK TIMES ACCIDENTALLY UNDERMINES JOHN BOLTON “BOMB IRAN” OP-ED IN OWN PAGES
NEW YORK TIMES ACCIDENTALLY UNDERMINES JOHN BOLTON “BOMB IRAN” OP-ED IN OWN PAGES The New York Times yesterday published an op-ed by the characteristically bellicose John R. Bolton, headlined ‘To Stop Iran’s Bomb, Bomb Iran.’ Bolton, now a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations during the George W. Bush administration. In […]
Did Max Boot and Commentary Magazine Lie About Edward Snowden? You Decide.
June 6, 2015
Did Max Boot and Commentary Magazine Lie About Edward Snowden? You Decide. In the neocon journal Commentary, Max Boot today complains that the New York Times published an op-ed by Edward Snowden. Boot’s objection rests on his accusation that the NSA whistleblower is actually a “traitor.” In objecting, Boot made these claims: Oddly enough nowhere in his article — which is datelined Moscow — does […]
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