May 2012 Archive

What Would Willard Do?

By Marie Burns: In today’s print edition of the New York Times, Michael Barbaro reports on the exchange between presumptive GOP presidential nominee Willard Mitt Romney ...

The New York Times, KONY2012, And The U.S. Pro-War Spin Machine In Africa

By Milton Allimadi: Is The U.S. deployment of military assets in East and Central African primarily to help “search” for Joseph Kony, the warlord and leader ...

Horowitz, the New York Times and the Pitiable State of Israel’s Friends

By Michael Neumann: A few days ago, the New York Times ran the following ad in its print edition: After the usual thrill of seeing my name ...

148 Professors Sign Letter Objecting To New York Times Nazi Ad, But Paper Refuses To Run It

By Ali Abunimah: One hundred and forty-eight US college professors signed a letter objecting to an advertisement in The New York Times by notorious racist David Horowitz naming indvidual faculty ...

Brooks Does the Big Lie on Stimulus (with no shame)

By Dean Baker: David Brooks is playing the “it’s all so confusing, we just can’t really know anything about economic policy” game. The point is to ...