By Michael McGehee: Vijay Prashad, author of the upcoming book Arab Spring, Libyan Winter, told Democracy Now! that "the nature of the NATO intervention" in Libya was "the use of human rights as a lubricant for intervention." This is nothing new. This was the same nature of the faux-humanitarianism advanced in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. And is being pushed in regards to Syria as we speak.
By Steven Strauss: Recently, the New York Times (NYT) praised Chelsea Clinton’s current successes and commitment to public service. Ms. Clinton is the daughter of current U.S. Secretary ...
By Dean Baker: he New York Times badly misled readers by repeatedly referring to a report of the deficit reduction commission led by former Senator Alan ...
By Zeinab El Gundy: Anonymous administrators of SCAF Facebook page respond in anger to NYT columnist Thomas Friedman’s latest pontifications on Egypt, but fail to get ...
The Sunday, February 25, New York Times Opinion Page carries a pro-con debate on nuclear power. Here is our entry, published as the first reponse to ...