April 2012 Archive

Bill Keller Meets the Imaginary Swing Voter

By Marie Burns: Bill Keller seems to be of the impression that an opinion column is a license to write down whatever occurs to you, an opportunity to peddle “what your gut tells you.” In his New York Times column today, Keller is searching for what he calls “The Sweet Spot,” an imaginary marker that lies somewhere in the center of a left-right continuum...

The Unraveling Occupation

By Nicole Colson: The U.S. war and occupation of Afghanistan was supposed to bring stability and democracy. Instead, Afghanistan remains a country on the brink of ...

Does Israel Interfere in US Elections?

By James M. Wall: Israel’s ambassador to the US, former American citizen Michael Oren, trotted out a classic Zionist strategy when he sent a letter to the New York Times denying that Israel is “interfering” in the American presidential campaign.

NYT on ‘Discord Over Cuba’ at Summit of Americas

By Michael McGehee: “The issue of Cuba’s exclusion from events like the Summit of the Americas gathering has been a perennially divisive one,” wrote Jackie Calmes ...

Iran’s Forbidden Nukes and the Taqiya Lie

By Juan Cole: The Iranian and Chinese teams at the negotiations in Istanbul this weekend between the UN Security Council plus Germany on the one hand, and Iran ...

Japan Has Not Suffered from “Crushing” Deflation

By Dean Baker: A NYT article that reported on the declining importance of manufacturing to Japan’s economy at one point referred to: “the crushing deflation that has burdened Japan’s domestic economy ...