May 2012 Archive

Paul Krugman’s Economic Blinders

By Michael Hudson: Paul Krugman is widely appreciated for his New York Times columns criticizing Republican demands for fiscal austerity. He rightly argues that cutting back public spending ...

David Brooks Misses the Weasel Factor

By Marie Burns: New York Times columnist David Brooks is perplexed. He cannot figure out why President Obama is “even close” in public polls pitting the President against ...

Pro-Democratic Uprisings in the NYT Propaganda System

By Michael McGehee: Usually when it comes to matters of the American Empire the New York Times cannot help but rely on the U.S. government as a source ...

The “Freedom Agenda” Was a Disaster for the Countries Affected By It

By Daniel Larison: Bill Keller’s description of the Bush administration’s record on human rights is flawed: George W. Bush made “the freedom agenda” a signature of his administration, but ...

The Austerions

By Tom Tomorrow: Readers should imagine the Austerions speaking in full, booming voices, with the reverb cranked up high.

Transgender Woman Dies in Fire, So Of Course the News Is About Wild Sex

By Jorge Rivas: A twenty-five year old woman was found dead in a four-story Brooklyn apartment building that caught on fire early Saturday morning. Police identified ...

Sexualizing A Victim; Telling Her Life In Terms Of Salacious Details

By Autumn Sandeen: The New York Times begins its article Woman Dies in a Brooklyn Fire That Is Deemed Suspicious with this paragraph: She was 25 and curvaceous, and ...

Take Action: Anti-Trans Victim Blaming in the New York Times

By JOS: Lorena Escalera was a person. She was a performer in the ball scene. She died in a suspicious fire on Saturday. And she sure ...

Honoring a ‘Terror War’ Architect | Consortiumnews

By Ray McGovern Since even readers of the New York Times are aware of deputy national security adviser John Brennan’s open identification with torture, secret prisons ...

Sanctions Against Iran: A Duplicitous “Alternative” to War

By Raha Iranian Feminist Collective: Media reports on Iran oscillate wildly between threats of imminent military action and hopeful reports of diplomatic progress. Amidst this confusing ...