By Gareth Porter: The Barack Obama administration's new interest in the 2004 religious verdict, or "fatwa", by Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei banning the possession of nuclear weapons, long dismissed by national security officials, has prompted the New York Times to review the significance of the fatwa for the first time in several years.
By Glenn Greenwald: A new news show hosted by Julian Assange debuted yesterday on RT, the global media outlet funded by the Russian government and carried ...
By Ryan Chittum: Will The New York Times Company survive as a stand-alone firm past 2015? That’s unknowable, of course. A lot can happen between now and ...
A few weeks ago, the Guild asked a number of the paper’s journalists to sit down and talk on video about the negotiations, the issues important to them, how they feel about working at the Times, and so on.
By Steve Benen: If New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman hoped to get people talking with his column today, it was a sterling success – I’ve lost count of how many ...
By Jason Linkins: Lord knows that I’m no stranger to criticism of New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, having written some myself. But yesterday, after blogger Duncan Black labeled Friedman ...
By Robert Parry: New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman, who once dubbed himself a “Tony Blair Democrat,” is now a “Mike Bloomberg Independent,” as he ...
By Duncan Black: Friedman possesses all of the qualities that make a pundit truly wankerific. He fetishizes a false “centrism” which is basically whatever Tom Friedman ...