April 2012 Archive

Tail Has Stopped Wagging, So Dog Can Stop Talking About War With Iran

By Philip Weiss: The Israel/Iran story is suddenly exploding (as my friend Ilene Cohen puts it). The solid argument for war that Israel and its friends ...

Everybody Loves Ryan – The New York Times Joins the Tea Party

By Marie Burns: The front page of today’s New York Times features a biographical sketch of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), the Chairman of the House budget ...

Confronting Savage Growth

By Marty Hart-Landsberg: The media is full of stories about the ever more heated debate over the best way to reignite growth: austerity or deficit spending. Paul Krugman, ...

David Horowitz and the Art of Slander — An Analysis

By Lawrence Davidson: On 24 April 2012 the New York Times lent its editorial page to the propaganda of right- wing Zionist David Horowitz, thereby taking the "newspaper of record" down into the gutter for the price of a quarter-page advertisement.

The ‘Inherit Traditions’ of the ‘Free Press’ on Display at White House Correspondents Dinner

By Michael McGehee: As expected, the White House Correspondents Dinner was awful. It was the typical genuflecting, flag-sucking farce where various shades of celebrities show up ...

The FBI, Elaborate Entrapment and Hannah Arendt on Secret Police

By Samir Chopra: David Shipler writes in today’s New York Times about an interesting aspect of a series of ‘lethal terrorist plots’ that have been successfully interdicted by ...