April 2012 Archive

Iran Stirring Violence on the Pages of the NYT

By Ben Schreiner: As the speculation continues to mount over whether or not Israel will come to strike Iran, the purveyors of U.S. propaganda hurriedly work ...

Apple’s Employees in China Don’t Work 70 Hours a Week Because They Want To

By Ross Eisenbrey: The most annoying responses to the revelations about Apple’s inhumane and exploitative factory pay and working conditions in China are the variations on ...

How War Reporting In Syria Makes A Larger Conflict Inevitable

By Russ Baker: We get major-media reports from Syria with increasing frequency. What’s wrong with these reports are that they are generally devoid of power analysis. This ...

Manufacturing Jobs Still Matter, as Does the Dollar

By Dean Baker: Eduardo Porter had an interesting column in the NYT discussing the future of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. economy and the role of trade. While ...

Republicans Admit They Have No Health Care Replacement Plan

By Joan McCarter: Well, look at this. The New York Times notices something that we lefty bloggers have been talking about for quite awhile: that “repeal and replace” ...

Trade in the 20th Century Electric Grid. Don’t Trade Off Local Energy

By John Farrell: In a New York Times Sunday Review piece, “Drawing the Line at Power Lines,”Elisabeth Rosenthal suggested that our desire for clean energy will require significant ...

Stupid Game Lets You Destroy Parts of NYT Story About Stupid Games

By Steve Myers: The Times has figured out a great way to increase time-on-site (and destroy our productivity) by illustrating a story about our obsession with “stupid ...