May 2012 Archive

Assad Blamed for Massacre of the Innocents

By Patrick Cockburn: In a massacre of unprecedented savagery that brings Syria close to civil war, some 32 children and 60 adults have been slaughtered in ...

Your Wednesday New York Times Op-Ed Entertainment Mini-Report

By Marie Burns: Today’s New York Times op-ed page is devoted to film reviews. Maureen Dowd spends the first part of her column, titled “Andromeda is Coming,” to remembrances of ...

The Crisis of Integrationism

By Philip Weiss: Yesterday’s New York Times had an inspiring letters page, in which several readers, including three professors and a student, argued for greater racial integration of ...

Obama’s Role in Targeted Killing Program – NYTimes.com

By Andrew Rosenthal: Whenever I raise questions about President Obama’s “targeted killing” policy, and the cavalier way his aides dismiss criticism of it, administration officials tell ...

Obama’s Kill List and the End of the Post-9/11 World

By Charles P. Pierce: The big story on the front page of The New York Times yesterday about the decision-making process involved in putting together the White House "kill list"...

Hymns to the Violence: The NYT’s Love Letter to Obama’s Murder Racket

By Chris Floyd: I must, at last, admit defeat. I simply have no words, no rhetorical ammunition, no conceptual frameworks that could adequately address the total moral nullity exposed in Monday's New York Times article on the death squad that Barack Obama is personally directing from the White House.

Obama’s Personal Role in Drone Executions

By Kevin Gosztola: Described by the New York Times as a “sloppy strike,” on December 17, 2009, a US drone launched a cruise missile carrying cluster bombs and ...

Obama’s Principles and Will Create Kill List as Test for New York Times

By David Swanson: The New York Times chose this “terror Tuesday” to publish an article called “Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and ...

US Diktat to Pakistan Not Working

By Thomas Riggins: The US is having more problems with its “ally” Pakistan according to a recent article in the New York Times (“Frustrations Grow as US and ...

Union Source Says Boston Globe Shuttering Bureaus

By Jessica Heslam and Christine McConville: The New York Times [NYT] Co. plans to shut down the Boston Globe’s remaining suburban bureaus next month — another ...

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