May 2013 Archive
We Steal Secrets, The New Movie About WikiLeaks Infuriates WikiLeaks
By Danny Schechter: Every documentary filmmaker begins with deciding on the story to be told, and, then, how to sustain audience interest. If your goal is to ...
Greek Anti-Racism Bill: A Source of Political Instability?
By Costas Panayotakis: On May 29, 2013 The New York Times ran an article on the tensions within Greece’s governing coalition that have been triggered by the anti-racism bill prepared by the Greek Minister of Justice...
The Times’s Op Ed Page and the Draft
By Murray Polner: Karl Eikenberry and David Kennedy’s “Americans and Their Military: Drifting Apart” (May 26) called for reinstatement of a draft, a favorite stance of ...
Freezing out Venezuela’s Maduro
By Oliver Stone, Keane Bhatt and Greg Wilpert: The New York Times is one of the chief offenders when it comes to Latin American affairs .... The continent has ...
NYT’s Apologia for Syrian Rebel War Crimes?
By Michael M'Gehee: On May 15, 2013 The New York Times published “Islamist Rebels Execute Pro-Government Fighters in Raqqa” under their “Watching Syria’s War” section. The ...
A Story About Nothing
By Costas Panayotakis: A headline on the front page of the Business section of the New York Times recently caught my attention. Announcing a story in ...
Obama’s War on the Media
By Michael M'Gehee: The front page of the May 14, 2013 edition of The New York Times says, “Phone Records of Journalists of The Associated Press ...
Urge NYT Public Editor to Investigate Biased Reporting on Venezuela & Honduras
Support this petition signed by Noam Chomsky, Mark Weisbrot and many others urging the New York Times' Public Editor...
NYT and Their Bizarre Argument for Tyrannicide
By Michael M'Gehee: One page SR3 of Monday’s The New York Times is a peculiar opinion piece by Feisal G. Mohamed...
The Wrong ‘Red Line’
By Richard Falk: There are widespread reports that President Obama had not fully appreciated the political consequences...
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