By Michael Howard | American Herald Tribune | July 1, 2018 Whenever I’m having a rough day and need a pick-me-up, I turn to The New York Times’ editorial page. It’s always a gas to see how far the empire’s leading propaganda outfit is prepared to go in its mission to pull the wool over […]
By Paul Craig Roberts | Institute For Political Economy | June 30, 2018 Among the ruling interests in the US, one interest even more powerful than the Israel Lobby—the Deep State of the military/security complex— there is enormous fear that an uncontrollable President Trump at the upcoming Putin/Trump summit will make an agreement that will […]
© The New York Times By Danielle Ryan | RT | June 28, 2018 A recent cartoon produced by the New York Times depicts Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin as gay lovers. It was clearly intended to be hilariously funny while also making a salient political point. In reality, it does neither. The cartoon is […]
By Dean Baker | Beat The Press | June 27, 2018 In a period of record low productivity growth Thomas Friedman tells us the robots are taking all the jobs. Hey, no one ever said you had to have a clue to write for the New York Times. Here’s the punch line: “From 1960 to […]
By James Bovard | Future of Freedom | June 20, 2018 The media nowadays are busy congratulating themselves for their vigorous criticism of Donald Trump. To exploit that surge of sanctimony, Hollywood producer Steven Spielberg rushed out The Post, a movie depicting an epic press battle with the Nixon administration. Critics raved over the film, which […]
The Washington Post‘s Jennifer Rubin (6/17/18) epitomized the zero-sum takes of US pundits. By Adam Johnson | FAIR | June 21, 2018 In major-paper opinion coverage of the Singapore summit, the people with the most to lose and gain from the summit, the people whose nation was actually being discussed—Koreans—were almost uniformly ignored. Three major […]
By Finian CUNNINGHAM | Strategic Culture Foundation | 18.06.2018 With the United Nations warning that millions of civilians could die from violence or starvation from the ongoing military siege of the Yemeni port city of Hodeida, there is no other way to describe what is happening except as “genocide”. The more than three-year war on […]
By Gregory Shupak | FAIR | June 14, 2018 Media outlets don’t want America to negotiate with North Korea; they want the US to hold North Korea for ransom. MSNBC‘s Rachel Maddow (6/12/18) appears dismayed by the manifestation of a US president meeting with an Official Enemy. On MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show, the host was […]
By Adam Johnson | FAIR | June 11, 2018 A reporter at the most influential paper in English-language media appears to not know the difference between a government “tightly editing” and selectively editing video. New York Times reporter Herbert Buchsbaum (6/7/18) wrote up a propaganda video posted by the Israeli Defense Force, showing Rouzan al-Najjar–a […]
By Joe Lauria | Consortium News | June 13, 2018 When Richard Nixon returned to Washington after his historic 1972 trip to China, he was welcomed with strong support from Democrats. “From the initial Congressional reaction, it was apparent that the President, home from his China trip, would find broad bipartisan support for his move […]
