January 2012 Archive

On Iran, the Times is Eyeballs-Deep in Muddy Water

By Michael McGehee: Thomas Jefferson, our third president, was a strong supporter of a free press. Its role was to keep the people informed and to ...

Kristof and the Rescue Industry: The Soft Side of Imperialism

By Laura Agustín: Reasons abound to be turned off by the New York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof. He is too pleased with himself and demonstrates no capacity for ...

Lessons from Iraqi Outrage Over US Drones

By Glenn Greenwald: The U.S. is continuing to fly surveillance drone aircraft over Iraq, prompting what The New York Times [yesterday described] as “outrage” among senior Iraqi officials and the ...

A Deadly Comeback: Polio in Afghanistan

By Catherine Wilkinson, MD: Polio forever seared two images in my mind.  That may account for my reaction to the story in the January 17th New York ...

David Brooks Doesn’t Want People to Focus on the 1 Percent

By Dean Baker: Even though the data on income show the top 1 percent of the population pulling away from everyone else, New York Times columnist David Brooks tells ...

Tom Friedman on How the 99 Percent Can Better Serve The One Percent, Corporate Edition

By Marie Burns: Just when you think Tom Friedman cannot write anything dumber than he already has, he proves you wrong. Friedman ends his Sunday New ...

Interrogating the NY Times’ Anthony Shadid

By Aaron Ross: The two-time Pulitzer winner on sneaking into Syria, being kidnapped in Libya, and the high cost of getting the story in a war ...

Stanley Fish Gets It Wrong Big-Time on Inequality

By Dean Baker: In a NYT column on inequality and fairness, Stanley Fish told readers: “Americans don’t mind if income is redistributed as long as it is done by ...

Globalization, Capitalism, and China

By Marty Hart-Landsberg: A January 22, 2012 New York Times story, The iEconomy: How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work, has been getting a lot of coverage.   The article makes ...

The One Percent Solution — David Brooks vs. the 99 Percent

By Marie Burns: New York Times columnist David Brooks is disappointed: President Obama did not devote his State of the Union address to a “grand plan” ...

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