By NICK ALEXANDROV | CounterPunch | May 2, 2015 Read the New York Times, Washington Post, or Wall Street Journal on Baltimore, and they tell you violence broke out there Monday. You hear an NPR correspondent refer to an “eruption of violence” in the city. The New Republic’s Rebecca Traister disagrees. “Violence broke out and […]
Looking down the rabbit hole of U.S. domestic politics,where everything you thought you knew, you don't;click to enlarge (source)by Gaius PubliusThere are more ways to think about this news than I can count, so I'm just going to present it with more questions than comment afterward.
By Mark Weisbrot | CEPR Americas Blog | March 20, 2015 I have sometimes noted that in the current “four legs good, two legs bad” discourse about Venezuela, journalists can write almost anything about the country and no one will question it – so long as it is something negative. On Saturday, March 13, the […]
By Jim Naureckas | FAIR | March 5, 2015 Reading the lead stories on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress about Iran in five prominent US papers–the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today (all 3/3/15)–what was most striking was what was left out of these articles. […]
By Stephan Lefebvre | CEPR | November 21, 2014 The Wall Street Journal recently published an article covering Wednesday’s protests in Ecuador against President Rafael Correa, but key facts were missing and the article contained several misleading statements. First, it is curious that the WSJ chose to focus on a protest of reportedly “around 3,000 […]
By Cyrus Safdari | Iran Affairs | September 28, 2014 As part of what appears to be a concerted campaign in the Right-wing and pro-Israeli media outlets in the US against US nuclear negotiations with Iran, which have a consistent theme of portraying the Obama administration as somehow “caving in” to Iranian demands, the Wall […]
It was a good day for judicial sanity, not such a good day for the Great Right-Wing Noise Machine. Cartoon by Joel Pett (March 2013) -- click to enlarge."When the full DC Circuit announced they would rehear the case, by contrast, that was an indication that the two Republicans who blocked the subsidies may be outliers who reached an idiosyncratic result in an easy case.
By Jake Johnston and Mark Weisbrot | Center for Economic and Policy Research | August 6, 2014 Last week the Wall Street Journal had a front page article on the net worth of Argentina’s first family since 2003, the year Néstor Kirchner was elected president. Based on financial disclosures with Argentina’s Anti-Corruption Office, the Wall […]
I made a brief appearance on the Korelin Economics Report on January 14, 2014 to discuss the Heritage Foundation’s 2014 Index of Economic Freedom, with Canada holding its 6th place finish out of 178, and the U.S. slipping to 12th place.
