May 2012 Archive

Embedded NYT Reporter Boosts US War in Honduras (and Why We Shouldn’t Listen)

By Dawn Paley: Yesterday's edition of the New York Times featured a front page story by Thom Shanker about how the US is waging an “Iraq-style” war on drugs in Honduras.

The Life of Ross

By Marie Burns: While I was away, Ross Douthat was at play. My friends and I have long thought that Douthat was fond of playing with inanimate ...

Wait Till Chen Guangchen Goes on His First Occupy Demonstration in New York

By Alexander Cockburn: Chen Guangchen, the Chinese human activist, got four separate articles in the New York Times for May 5. Jane Perlez and Michael Wines reported ...

600 US Troops Occupying Honduras, Two Years After Coup

By Tom Hayden: Six hundred US army troops have invaded Honduras in an escalation of the 2009 intervention, in which the State Department stood by during ...

‘Battle of the Beards’: Paul Krugman vs. Ben Bernanke

By Robert J. Samuelson: It’s being called the “battle of the beards” — Paul Krugman vs. Ben Bernanke. Both are eminent (and bearded) economists: Bernanke, chairman ...

Robert Samuelson Gets Serious About Inflation

By Dean Baker: Robert Samuelson had a serious discussion of Paul Krugman’s idea (and in his professor days, Ben Bernanke‘s) that the Fed could boost demand by deliberately targetting ...