According to reports of the interrogation of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the brothers weremotivated in part by the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And this has the Timescolumnist scratching his head about the problem with Muslims: New York Times columnist Tom Friedman doesn’t understand how on earth the Boston bombers could rationalize their act of violence–and …
The rewriting of history by the power elite was painfully evident as the nation marked the 10th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War. Some claimed they had opposed the war when they had not. Others among “Bush’s useful idiots” argued that they had merely acted in good …
Every technological change, from small to large, has had its hyper promoters. Those are the people who celebrate that technical change with wild exaggerations of its historic importance. Of course, part of their motivation is self-serving. How brilliant of them to have understood that particular technical change and its …
The New York Times has a longstanding history of pro-Israeli bias. An earlier If Americans Knew report explained “highly disturbing patterns” of distorted, one-sided coverage. Over time, little changed. Former Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner is ethically challenged. He’s a longtime Israeli apologist. He blames Palestinians for Israeli crimes. He largely …
In conferring the honor of “Wanker of the Decade” on New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman, blogger Duncan Black observed that “truly great wankers possess a kind of glib narcissism, the belief that everything is about them while simultaneously disavowing any responsibility for anything.” The sorry “state of the world is what …