October 2011 Archive

Julian Assange on The New York Times: Part 3

Special Fundraising Offer: Donate to receive a remastered version of this series. A multipart interview with WikiLeaks Editor Julian Assange focusing on his experience working with the ...

Will a Business With Profits of $1.1 Million Be Devastated by Another $5,000 in Taxes?

By Dean Baker: Apparently they would be, if we listen to the people interviewed in an NYTpiece about the impact of a surtax on incomes above $1 ...

Middle East propaganda 101

By Glenn Greenwald: When it comes to American propaganda about the Middle East, this New York Times article — detailing U.S. plans to bolster its influence in the region after ...

The Nonconspiratorial Worldview of Michael Gordon

By Peter Hart: In Wednesday’s New York Times (10/26/11), Michael Gordon wrote a piece headlined “Papers From Iraqi Archive Reveal Conspiratorial Mind-Set of Hussein,” about some Iraqi archives that give ...

New York Times and Obama’s ‘Humanitarian’ Intervention in Uganda

By Michael McGehee: Nearly two weeks ago the New York Times (NYT) published a piece on President Obama’s latest invasion of Africa. It was a blog ...

Lefty Journalism Professor Tries to Discredit the Tea Party by Passing Along Sensational Footage to his Buddies at the Times!!!

By Jay Rosen: Yesterday I was the target of a “sting” operation by right wing trickster James O’Keefe. I will tell you what happened. But first, here ...

The Latest Shooting Incident In Freeport

By Setyo Budi: Workers at West Papua’s Grasberg mine have been in intense negotiations for wage increases with Freeport Indonesia management since July this year. To break the strike Freeport management has issued a statement offering to provide “a financial incentive for those who can convince striking workers to go back to work”.

The New York Times Abandons the Story of the Century and Joins the Energy and Climate Ignorati

By Joe Romm: Here are excerpts from two erroneous and contradictory pieces in today’s dreadful NY Timesspecial section on energy: NYT 1:  According to the most recent estimates of ...

NYT pedals Panetta’s talk of “serious threats”

By Michael McGehee: If the New York Times (NYT) is “the paper of record,” you got to ask: what record? Like many of us who follow the work of ...

A Generation of CEOs Who Don’t Know How to Raise Wages

By Dean Baker: Those who follow the rants from our business leaders and their allies in politics and the media have been struck by a disquieting ...

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