Michael Lesher “A spirit [of piety] is characterized not only by what it does but, no less, by what it permits.” Rabbi Leo Baeck One consequence of being Jewish is a standing familiarity with a wide range of Jewish jokes – including those that address what seems to be our collective inability to let well …
By Francis Menton | Manhattan Contrarian | May 13, 2021 It appears that some time last month the EPA provided a major update of what it calls its “climate change indicators.” The EPA’s web page for this is headed “Climate Change Indicators in the United States,” with the sub-heading “Climate Change Is Happening Now.” The […]
By Glenn Greenwald | May 14, 2021 In an interview on Tuesday with Fox News’ Bret Baier, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) denied that she spread the discredited CIA “Russian bounty” story. That CIA tale, claiming Russia was paying Taliban fighters to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan, was cooked up by the CIA and then published by The New York Times on […]
When the New York Times weighs in to fact check the CDC, you know something is in the wind. Reporter David Leonhardt says the CDC's advice that less than 10% of transmission occurs outdoors is true but deceiving.
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RT | May 11, 2021 An email exchange in which a US Justice Department (DOJ) lawyer threatens to subpoena academics who refuted voter fraud allegations in Bolivia’s 2019 presidential election has been leaked, fueling speculation of US involvement. Between October 2020 and January 2021, Angela George – a trial attorney at the DOJ’s Office of […]
RT | May 3, 2021 CNN took a holier-than-thou approach to explaining away mainstream media’s penchant for telling anonymously sourced stories that later prove to be false, saying that unlike “MAGA media,” it tries to get the news right. “There are safeguards in place,” CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy told ‘Reliable Sources’ host Brian Stelter on […]
By Ethan Yang | AIER | April 27, 2021 On April 23, 2021 The New York Times published an article titled “How Covid Upended a Century of Patterns in U.S. Deaths.” The article lays out some data regarding the unprecedented uptick in the US death rate that occured in 2020. As shown in the graph provided by the New York […]
By Paul Robinson | IRRUSSIANALITY | April 26, 2021 Several press articles I’ve seen in the past few days have annoyed me rather, but I think that they are useful as examples of how reporting on Russia is distorted. For they demonstrate the methods used by journalists to paint a picture of the world that […]
By Scott Ritter | RT | April 22, 2021 Putin warns of Russia’s ‘red lines’, comparing the West’s actions to ‘The Jungle Book’, but says Moscow doesn’t want to burn bridges with anyone. His message falls on deaf ears in the US, largely thanks to establishment media. In his annual address to the Federal Assembly […]
By Jacob G. Hornberger | FFF | April 21, 2021 I’m always fascinated by the sacrificial mindset that interventionists have toward the lives of U.S. soldiers who they want to do the intervening. A recent example is Brett Stephens, a columnist for the New York Times. In an op-ed entitled “Abandoning Afghanistan Is a Historic Mistake,” Stephens […]
