New York Times

NYT’s Argentina Op-Ed Fails to Disclose Authors’ Financial Conflict of Interest

Photo: Paul Singer By Eli Clifton | LobeLog | December 13, 2017 On Tuesday, Mark Dubowitz and Toby Dershowitz, two executives at the hawkish Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), took to the op-ed pages of The New York Times to celebrate last week’s announcement that Argentina’s former president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, would face […]

The Foundering Russia-gate ‘Scandal’

By Robert Parry | Consortium News | December 13, 2017 The disclosure of fiercely anti-Trump text messages between two romantically involved senior FBI officials who played key roles in the early Russia-gate inquiry has turned the supposed Russian-election-meddling “scandal” into its own scandal, by providing evidence that some government investigators saw it as their duty […]

Russia-gate’s Litany of Corrections

By Robert Parry | Consortium News | December 11, 2017 The U.S. mainstream media’s year-long hysteria over Russia’s alleged role in the election of Donald Trump has obliterated normal reporting standards leading to a rash of journalistic embarrassments that have both disgraced the profession and energized Trump’s backers over new grievances about the MSM’s “fake […]

The Delusions of Washington-Riyadh Ruling Elite and the Journalists Who Feed Them

By Richard Silverstein | Tikun Olam | Dember 9, 2017 NYT’ pro-Israel talking heads: David Makovsky and Aaron David Miller In the aftermath of Trump’s disastrous recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the spin from Washington and Riyadh–and the journalists and think tank analysts only too eager be spun–has been outrageous. The level of sheer […]

Trump Team Didn’t Just Collude with Israel, Kushner was Acting as Foreign Agent for Tel Aviv

By Patrick Henningsen | 21st Century Wire | December 7, 2107 Much was made this week in the American media about Michael Flynn’s recent guilty plea to making false statements to the FBI, as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s never-ending “Russia probe.” Although court documents show Flynn has acknowledged to previously giving false statements in […]