February 2012 Archive

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News Dissector Headlines: Syria

Danny Schechter un-spins select stories from the New York Times for his NYTX News Dissector video column. Today’s Feb. 16 column focuses on Syria. Danny Schechter ...

Will Israel Attack Iran? Not Before the U.S. Presidential Election

By Mark Weisbrot: Last week the New York Times reported on an interesting telephone conversation in January between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.  According to the ...

New ‘NYT’ Bureau Chief Jodi Rudoren Faces Outcry From Israel Advocates Over Twitter Messages

By Alex Kane: Barely a day went by before Jodi Rudoren, the spanking new Jerusalem bureau chief for the New York Times (NYT), got her first lesson in ...

New York Times to Get New Jerusalem Bureau Chief

By Emilie Grunzweig: After four years as the New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief, Ethan Bronner will be leaving his position, the newspaper announced Tuesday in ...

Roma Locuta Est, Causa Finita Non Est

By Marie Burns: Gary Gutting holds a distinguished chair in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He also writes many of the posts in a New ...

NYT: Okinawans’ ‘True Views’ Aren’t What They Say

By Peter Hart: That a majority of people living on the island of Okinawa want the U.S. Marines gone seems a well-established fact. A plan to build ...

China’s Pirates, Currency, and Class

By Dean Baker: David Leonhardt has an interesting piece in today's New York Times that asks whether currency values should still be an important issue between the United States and China...

The Fair Labor Association Will Audit Apple Factories in China – So What?

By Paul Garver: When I read the otherwise well researched feature story in the New York Times, in which Apple announced it would have the Fair Labor Association ...