February 2012 Archive

NYT Meets Venezuelan Opposition, and Smiles

By Gregory Wilpert: It would seem that the New York Times has run out of substantive issues with which to present Venezuela in a negative light ...

Bill Keller’s Infatuation With Julian Assange

By Chris Spannos: Bill Keller’s latest screed against Julian Assange, “WikiLeaks, a Postscript,” can be summarized as four paragraphs of jealousy, three paragraphs of character assassination, ...

The Radical Center We Don’t Need

By Robert Kuttner: Tom Friedman of the New York Times is at it again, claiming that what America needs to fix our economic and political mess is a ...

Thomas Friedman’s Candidate for President: The Leader of the Economic Sleepwalk Tour

By Dean Baker: Thomas Friedman gave readers his pseudo endorsement of a candidate for president last Sunday.