Our censors, as the record shows again and again, have no special concern about acting in a serious manner. Power has no such obligation.
Patrick Lawrence: The Sound of Enforced Silence
Tag: The New York Times
Suicide Squad
Media Ignore Israeli Massacres While Fixating on US Elections
After a 20-year-old gunman attempted to assassinate Trump on Saturday, the victims of Israeli bombs —many of them supplied by the United States — faded from view.
Settled
In 1979, Israeli settlers and soldiers were already terrorizing residents of the Palestinian village of Halhoul and committing violence elsewhere, writes Ellen Cantarow.
The Corporate News Media at Work
Large numbers of Palestinians and Ukrainians were killed in missile strikes days apart, writes Jonathan Cook. The differing coverage of these comparable events is the clue to the media’s true function.
RAY McGOVERN: Will Putin Attack Poland & the Baltics?
Given their lack of information about the Ukraine-Russia deal scuttled by Boris Johnson early in the war, many Americans will be inclined to believe Biden’s evidence-free claims in last week’s CNN debate.
Patrick Lawrence: The State Failed to Break Assange
The WikiLeaks founder consistently displayed strength and endurance as the machinery of two sovereign states attempted to destroy him.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Putin — Behind the Shoji
The Russian president’s time in Pyongyang and Hanoi gave clear evidence of the turn away from the West that Lavrov, the country’s foreign minister, announced at the start of the year.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Afterlives of Lies
Thomas Friedman v. Critical Thought on Gaza
Lawrence Davidson on The New York Times’ columnist’s failure to acknowledge the imbalance of violence over the entire history of the Israel-Palestine conflict.