position:ny times columnist

The Day The Top NY Times Columnist Threatened to “Get Me” For Criticizing Israel
▻http://mjrosenberg.net/2014/08/25/the-day-the-top-ny-times-columnist-threatened-to-get-me-for-criticizing

So what’s the moral? It is this: Criticizing #Israel is dangerous business. On what other issue would a #New_York_Times columnist call a Senate staffer and threaten to destroy his career? None. And why was a New York Times columnist acting as if he was working for the Israeli government? #Safire wasn’t a journalist that day; he essentially was a representative of the Israeli government.

US “errors” and the debacle in the Middle East - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/08/28/cohe-a28.html

More pro-war propaganda from NY Times columnist Roger Cohen
US “errors” and the debacle in the Middle East
By Bill Van Auken
28 August 2014

With the Obama administration on the brink of launching yet another war in the Middle East, this time extending its resumption of the US intervention in Iraq across the border into Syria, the US media has gone into overdrive in churning out propaganda justifying military action. Exploiting the revulsion over the recent execution of American photojournalist Richard Foley, the attempt is being made to present the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which has overrun large swathes of both countries, as evil incarnate and an imminent terrorist threat.

#moyen-orient #guerre