March 2012 Archive

Crony Capitalism – Tom Friedman Pays His Club Dues

By Marie Burns: Tom Friedman writes the same column over and over again, perhaps inspired by the Bill Murray character in “Groundhog Day,” a film that ...

Obama Lunches With Bloomberg? Here’s What’s Really Afoot When it Comes to Political Money

By Thomas Ferguson: Right now the political world is buzzing with speculation over a New York Times report that President Obama recently had lunch with New York City ...

Israel: The Permanent-War State

By Richard Silverstein: It’s no accident that as soon as Bibi Netanyahu returned from Washington DC, where he apparently was rebuffed yet again in his attempts ...

NY Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief Replaced

By Saed Bannoura: Ethan Bronner, who has served as the Jerusalem Bureau Chief for the New York Times newspaper for four years, has announced that he ...

Propaganda Is Reported in Times, Raising Pressure for Intervention in Syria

By Michael McGehee: In an article published in the New York Times yesterday under the headline “Massacre Reported in Homs, Raising Pressure for Intervention in Syria” ...