Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): I hate The New York Times. Hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it. With every fiber of my being, from the depths of my immortal soul. The "paper of record" for the most murderous and tyrannical nation on earth, The New York Times has been
Phew, let-er-rip. The number of ways in which The Grey Lady is rotting and corrupt is getting difficult to detail. You did a pretty good job here. Years ago while walking through a summer arts fair I walked past a table where a woman was , rather agressively, hawking subscriptions to The NYT, her pitch had a lot to do with "being intelligent". Long story short, I literally laughed at her and hit her with something similar to, but not near as articulate, as your article. You could have knocked her over with a feather I think, she looked shocked to the core, as if she was being addressed by a Googly Eyed Martian. In the years following I get the sense that maybe there are a few more Googly Eyed Martians about, I sure hope so, you are one the more outspoken and effective, so Thanks as ever.
The NYT is the warmongering rag of choice of the boutique liberal class, who bring not a grain of skepticism to anything written in blood on its pages. When it comes to the narratives of power and the proclamations of public officials, liberals run to the foxes to get the scoop on the chicken situation.
The quote from the New York Times on the failure to "persuade or compel China to abide by U.S. rules" was actually not from the editorial board -- even worse, it was from Antony Blinken, presently serving as Secretary of State, emulating his mentor, the genocidalist Madeleine Albright. Great column today!
Not that my voice would be given any airtime amidst the incessant propagandising for an end to be put to life on earth, by the sociopathic retards who manage the censorship industrial complex which feeds the appetites of the depraved, however in light of that fact I remain grateful for the haven of sanity provided by Caitlin and Tim and those here who defend the simple right for all human beings to be spared the obscenity of the grotesque ambitions of the globalist elite of the Deep State. There is nothing worse than a bad loser who is unwilling to acknowledge the fact that the remarkable achievements of the Global majority render their hegemonic exceptionalism as a gross irrelevance in world where new alliances are riding, such as BRICS, SCO, ASEAN and CELAC which prove the point that 85% of the world’s population voices a resounding “No” to this Western bully and its monstrous criminal and Fascist Global NATO project. This is what has stuck in the craw of these slimy, cowardly psychopaths who are engaging in an excess of venality in continuing their vile pursuits whereby every law is twisted and bent until the innocent are made to suffer while the guilty walk free. It is neither China nor Russia who represent any threat to the freedom, prosperity and happiness of living beings - on the contrary, it is the walking dead as manifest in the likes of Anthony Blinken, John Bolton, Victoria Nuland, John Kirby along with the rest of the slime mould of those who have concocted this nightmare of a New American Century, blithely oblivious of the fact that, with regard to their incessant provocations, worldwide, we will all be lucky to see out the end of this year.
The NYT, like every single Ukraine supporter I know, is addicted to war porn. Makes sex porn addicts look saintly. I am shocked at the BIPARTISAN gloating over pictures of war porn - looks like they are quite kindred to Zelensky and his Nazis. And it has occurred to me that the US/EU (especially Germany)/UK have a festering hate and resentment about what Russia accomplished in WWII. I will always remember that the US nuked two cities full of civilians - not to win a war, but to try and impress Russia. IMO, the NYT and The West are slavering over the possibility of nuking Russia. They do not give a flying f*** about civilians in any country whatsoever.
Great analysis Caitlin. Those of us who apposed the Viet Nam war knew the Gray Lady was a war whore so I haven’t read the NYT in 50 years, but it’s so good to read a young person of your caliber taking this rag apart with surgical precision.
As Sartre said -you become what you do, and, a strange phenomenon regarding that maxim: some public officials, newscasters and politicos, are starting to take on the look of insects. My imagination, I guess. But what I can't absorb is the presumed sheepiness of the people on whom all this is declared:
I mean, have you ever witnessed, outside of Hitler film clips, the utter authoritarianism of people like Scholz, Baerbock, Ursula Vanderleyen? In effect, "You are going to starve and freeze In the dark, aaand - shut the hell up about it. See? - because we're fighting a proxy war, a gladiatorial contest against Russia, and will win if we will it. We have become Merlin". Macron barely wins a vote of non-confidence, which means - unless you're a bureaucrat and obsessed with technicalities - that he doesn't have the confidence of the people. But does he give a damn? And they call this "order" as opposed to "chaos", and "democracy", as opposed to - what, exactly? Australia, a small country, is sucked into the vacuum caused by this insanity - but who isn't? It is time for the people to stand up before we are forced to look down at the ground, permanently, like slaves.
Also note the wording: "If war with China breaks out" like it's an attack of measles or a tornado. It would be more honest to say, "Officials are concerned that they can't attack China yet because they might run out of missiles and stuff too soon." Note that in the first cold war, US officials lied very hard about an imaginary "missile gap" to get Congress to appropriate more money for weapons. Ellsburg names a time when he looked into a dispute between agencies about whether the USSR had (well shit I don't remember numbers well but it was something like) 100 or 200 of some kind of nuclear weapon, while the US had only maybe 100. Ellsburg discovered that the USSR had--four. The Pentagon was always howling about the desperate failure to match the USSR, when it always had more than the USSR (and it's childish idiocy to think it matters whether you have enough to kill everyone on Earth twice over or four times over,m while the other side has enough to do it only once). It's possible that the Pentagon actually doesn't have a huge advantage in weapons now, though, despite spending FAR more than any imagined adversary--because corruption has gotten so extreme, weapons makers have found they can make up numbers, deliver defective equipment, deliver things that exist only on paper, charge fifty times a reasonable amount for a thing...with no consequences.
It's a little hard to talk about these things because the very existence of nuclear weapons is so insane. The fact that people accept the notion that war is normal, that the US is always at war, despite the fact that no one is actually threatening us in any military way. As for the real "threat" of China superseding the US economically and diplomatically--so what? But I've read that a big issue is that the US is hugely in debt to other countries, a trade balance way in the red, and has gotten away with this for many decades (no IMF structural adjustment for it) due to its control of the IMF & World Bank and through the petrodollar. But all that is fraying...maybe the bankers are panicked about debts coming due with no way to use bullying instead of paying.
I have boycotted the NYT ever since Nov 2017, when the lead article declared men biologically inferior to women. Before long extended this boycott to all mainstream media. Recently I strayed back there. It's much worse now. These people are on the Highway To Hell.
“It is a plague upon our world, and it should be destroyed, buried, and peed on.” You left out “spit on”. The NYT is a cancer on the body politic, can’t think of a better way to say it. Its prestige is the problem. It’s influential out of proportion to its worth as a news source only because it seems to have an unlimited stock of cachet no matter how bad it is, no matter how often it shows us what it’s there for. But keep saying what you just said here. That’ll go farther than standard media criticism at this point toward dethroning this behemoth unworthy of anyone’s respect.
"The nation's paper of record" got that title because it consistently prints the things that the ruling establishment wants to see in print.
*USA punches China in the face*
China: "You asshole!"
Bystander: "USA, why did you punch China?"
USA: "Because it called me asshole!"
Phew, let-er-rip. The number of ways in which The Grey Lady is rotting and corrupt is getting difficult to detail. You did a pretty good job here. Years ago while walking through a summer arts fair I walked past a table where a woman was , rather agressively, hawking subscriptions to The NYT, her pitch had a lot to do with "being intelligent". Long story short, I literally laughed at her and hit her with something similar to, but not near as articulate, as your article. You could have knocked her over with a feather I think, she looked shocked to the core, as if she was being addressed by a Googly Eyed Martian. In the years following I get the sense that maybe there are a few more Googly Eyed Martians about, I sure hope so, you are one the more outspoken and effective, so Thanks as ever.
The NYT is the warmongering rag of choice of the boutique liberal class, who bring not a grain of skepticism to anything written in blood on its pages. When it comes to the narratives of power and the proclamations of public officials, liberals run to the foxes to get the scoop on the chicken situation.
The quote from the New York Times on the failure to "persuade or compel China to abide by U.S. rules" was actually not from the editorial board -- even worse, it was from Antony Blinken, presently serving as Secretary of State, emulating his mentor, the genocidalist Madeleine Albright. Great column today!
Not that my voice would be given any airtime amidst the incessant propagandising for an end to be put to life on earth, by the sociopathic retards who manage the censorship industrial complex which feeds the appetites of the depraved, however in light of that fact I remain grateful for the haven of sanity provided by Caitlin and Tim and those here who defend the simple right for all human beings to be spared the obscenity of the grotesque ambitions of the globalist elite of the Deep State. There is nothing worse than a bad loser who is unwilling to acknowledge the fact that the remarkable achievements of the Global majority render their hegemonic exceptionalism as a gross irrelevance in world where new alliances are riding, such as BRICS, SCO, ASEAN and CELAC which prove the point that 85% of the world’s population voices a resounding “No” to this Western bully and its monstrous criminal and Fascist Global NATO project. This is what has stuck in the craw of these slimy, cowardly psychopaths who are engaging in an excess of venality in continuing their vile pursuits whereby every law is twisted and bent until the innocent are made to suffer while the guilty walk free. It is neither China nor Russia who represent any threat to the freedom, prosperity and happiness of living beings - on the contrary, it is the walking dead as manifest in the likes of Anthony Blinken, John Bolton, Victoria Nuland, John Kirby along with the rest of the slime mould of those who have concocted this nightmare of a New American Century, blithely oblivious of the fact that, with regard to their incessant provocations, worldwide, we will all be lucky to see out the end of this year.
The NYT, like every single Ukraine supporter I know, is addicted to war porn. Makes sex porn addicts look saintly. I am shocked at the BIPARTISAN gloating over pictures of war porn - looks like they are quite kindred to Zelensky and his Nazis. And it has occurred to me that the US/EU (especially Germany)/UK have a festering hate and resentment about what Russia accomplished in WWII. I will always remember that the US nuked two cities full of civilians - not to win a war, but to try and impress Russia. IMO, the NYT and The West are slavering over the possibility of nuking Russia. They do not give a flying f*** about civilians in any country whatsoever.
Great analysis Caitlin. Those of us who apposed the Viet Nam war knew the Gray Lady was a war whore so I haven’t read the NYT in 50 years, but it’s so good to read a young person of your caliber taking this rag apart with surgical precision.
As Sartre said -you become what you do, and, a strange phenomenon regarding that maxim: some public officials, newscasters and politicos, are starting to take on the look of insects. My imagination, I guess. But what I can't absorb is the presumed sheepiness of the people on whom all this is declared:
I mean, have you ever witnessed, outside of Hitler film clips, the utter authoritarianism of people like Scholz, Baerbock, Ursula Vanderleyen? In effect, "You are going to starve and freeze In the dark, aaand - shut the hell up about it. See? - because we're fighting a proxy war, a gladiatorial contest against Russia, and will win if we will it. We have become Merlin". Macron barely wins a vote of non-confidence, which means - unless you're a bureaucrat and obsessed with technicalities - that he doesn't have the confidence of the people. But does he give a damn? And they call this "order" as opposed to "chaos", and "democracy", as opposed to - what, exactly? Australia, a small country, is sucked into the vacuum caused by this insanity - but who isn't? It is time for the people to stand up before we are forced to look down at the ground, permanently, like slaves.
Caitlin - very impressed that you would like to pee on them. Love it!
Also note the wording: "If war with China breaks out" like it's an attack of measles or a tornado. It would be more honest to say, "Officials are concerned that they can't attack China yet because they might run out of missiles and stuff too soon." Note that in the first cold war, US officials lied very hard about an imaginary "missile gap" to get Congress to appropriate more money for weapons. Ellsburg names a time when he looked into a dispute between agencies about whether the USSR had (well shit I don't remember numbers well but it was something like) 100 or 200 of some kind of nuclear weapon, while the US had only maybe 100. Ellsburg discovered that the USSR had--four. The Pentagon was always howling about the desperate failure to match the USSR, when it always had more than the USSR (and it's childish idiocy to think it matters whether you have enough to kill everyone on Earth twice over or four times over,m while the other side has enough to do it only once). It's possible that the Pentagon actually doesn't have a huge advantage in weapons now, though, despite spending FAR more than any imagined adversary--because corruption has gotten so extreme, weapons makers have found they can make up numbers, deliver defective equipment, deliver things that exist only on paper, charge fifty times a reasonable amount for a thing...with no consequences.
It's a little hard to talk about these things because the very existence of nuclear weapons is so insane. The fact that people accept the notion that war is normal, that the US is always at war, despite the fact that no one is actually threatening us in any military way. As for the real "threat" of China superseding the US economically and diplomatically--so what? But I've read that a big issue is that the US is hugely in debt to other countries, a trade balance way in the red, and has gotten away with this for many decades (no IMF structural adjustment for it) due to its control of the IMF & World Bank and through the petrodollar. But all that is fraying...maybe the bankers are panicked about debts coming due with no way to use bullying instead of paying.
It's the war loving neocon's wet dream.
I have boycotted the NYT ever since Nov 2017, when the lead article declared men biologically inferior to women. Before long extended this boycott to all mainstream media. Recently I strayed back there. It's much worse now. These people are on the Highway To Hell.
“It is a plague upon our world, and it should be destroyed, buried, and peed on.” You left out “spit on”. The NYT is a cancer on the body politic, can’t think of a better way to say it. Its prestige is the problem. It’s influential out of proportion to its worth as a news source only because it seems to have an unlimited stock of cachet no matter how bad it is, no matter how often it shows us what it’s there for. But keep saying what you just said here. That’ll go farther than standard media criticism at this point toward dethroning this behemoth unworthy of anyone’s respect.
Like your realistic view of the NYT.
No think left in the Think Tanks are far as I can see.
This crowd is actively composting themselves in Our Ironic Revolution which wasn’t planned on by any Tank!
Journalism students, exploring the idea of "manufacture of consent", should be assigned the deconstruction of any given day's front page of this rag.
I look at it to to keep track of the manipulations, the subplots, of the current narrative.
(And of course the real estate section to see which apartment the couple with only 400K downpayment will choose from among the choices shown.)