{"id":99906,"date":"2013-12-19T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T08:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?guid=dbba5d287ca0d6527de0ab1d8d348274"},"modified":"2013-12-19T08:18:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T08:18:00","slug":"new-york-times-editors-support-wrong-over-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/new-york-times-editors-support-wrong-over-right\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Editors Support Wrong Over Right"},"content":{"rendered":"
New York Times Editors Support Wrong Over Right<\/b><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
by Stephen Lendman<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Longstanding Times policy is consistent. It promotes establishment values. It supports wealth, power and privilege. It endorses global US dominance. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
When America goes to war or plans one, Times editors march in lockstep. Propaganda substitutes for truth and full disclosure. Managed news misinformation is featured.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Editorial policy defends the indefensible. It backs wrong over right. It justifies what demands condemnation. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It supports banksters looting the federal treasury. It does so by not exposing and denouncing them. It does it by not demanding top Wall Street officials be prosecuted. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Monied interests run America. Times editors ignore it. They turn a blind eye to America’s de facto one party state. They endorse sham US elections. They give legitimacy to a rigged process. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
They give short shrift to growing US poverty, unemployment, underemployment, hunger, homelessness, and human misery.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
They support destroying vital safety net protections when most needed. They endorse force-fed austerity instead of denouncing it. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
News they claim fit to print isn’t fit to read. Managed news misinformation substitutes. Vital truths readers most need to know are suppressed. Core journalistic ethics are violated.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
On December 17, a flagrant human rights abuser got feature op-ed space. Doing so effectively endorses his nation’s policy.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz al Saud is Saudi Arabia’s UK ambassador. He’s a royal House of Saud member. His father, Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz, is a close King Abdullah ally.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Giving bin Abdulaziz feature op-space effectively supports one of the world’s most repressive regimes.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
State terror is official policy. Human and civil rights are denied. Authority rests solely with King Abdullah and royal family members.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Democracy is strictly forbidden. Constitutional provisions afford ordinary citizens and other residents no rights. Women are especially marginalized and denied.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Political parties and national elections are prohibited. So is media freedom. Most web sites are blocked. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Anyone dissenting is subject to arbitrary arrest and detention. Political critics, independent journalists, academics, foreign nationals, and human rights activists are especially vulnerable.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fundamentalist Sunni Islam Wahhabism is Saudi’s official state religion. Fanaticism defines it. Majority Shia nations are considered enemies. So are secular Arab states.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Wahhabis want them toppled. They want their own version of Islam replacing them. They operate lawlessly. They employ extreme tactics to achieve aims.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Saudi Arabia is hostile to Iran. It wants Syria’s Assad removed. It’s heavily involved in recruiting, funding and arming terrorist invaders.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It was caught red-handed supplying them with chemical weapons. New York Times editors ignored what demanded headlines.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
They reported nothing about new US\/Saudi-backed death squad atrocities. Dozens of Adra, Syrian men, women, children, infants, the elderly and infirm were massacred in cold blood. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Doing so is one of the most egregious crimes since Syria’s conflict erupted. Defenseless civilians were slaughtered like sheep. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Local residents called terrorist invaders “the decapitators.” They burned some civilians to death.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
They targeted government employees and their families. They had lists of names and addresses supplied them.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
They conducted sham Sharia trials. Guilt by accusation assured death by beheading. Others were shot in cold blood. Some were burned alive in bakery ovens.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Eyewitnesses described mass slaughter everywhere. Children were massacred like adults. Terrorists waged war without mercy.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
One survivor said everyone at Adra Ummalia hospital was killed. Syria is Obama’s war. He supports death squad invaders. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He’s providing funding, arming, training and direction. Death squad diplomacy substitutes for peaceful conflict resolution. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
War could continue for years. There’s nothing whatever civil about it. US-backed death squads invaded Syria. Assad responsibly battles to defeat them.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Syria is being ravaged and destroyed. Doing so adds another horrific war crime to Obama’s rap sheet.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Unspeakable numbers of innocent Syrian civilians could perish before conflict ends. Obama bears full responsibility. Key NATO partners, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and rogue Arab state allies share it. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
So do Times and other scoundrel media editors. Misreporting shows support for unconscionable crimes. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Giving feature op-ed space to an enemy of peace and egregious human rights abuser reflects it.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Bin Abdulaziz headlined<\/span><\/a> his Times op-ed “Saudi Arabia Will Go It Alone.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He called relations “with our Western partners..tested..because of differences over Iran and Syria.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“We believe that many of the West\u2019s policies on both (countries) risk the stability and security of the Middle East.” <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“This is a dangerous gamble, about which we cannot remain silent, and will not stand idly by.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“The crisis in Syria continues unabated.” He stopped short of explaining Saudi involvement in exacerbating it.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Times editors ignore it. They wrongfully blame Assad for death squad invader crimes. They do it repeatedly. They do it reprehensibly. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It’s longstanding Times policy. So is giving feature op-ed space to loathsome figures like bin Abdulaziz.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He called Assad’s government “a weapon of mass destruction. Chemical weapons are but a small cog in (his) killing machine.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He called it “an evil regime that is hurting and harming the Syrian people.” He lied multiple times throughout his commentary claiming it.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Recent polls show Assad has strong popular support. In early September, Press TV<\/span><\/a> cited a US daily news service World Tribune one.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It showed 70% of Syrians support Assad. Another 20% back neither side. Only 10% endorse opposition elements. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Don’t expect New York Times editors to explain. Don’t expect bin Abdulaziz and likeminded rogues to feature truth and full disclosure.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Their agenda is ruthlessly repressive. Bin Abdulaziz wants the Islamic Republic of Iran and Syria’s secular government toppled. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He wants Wahhabist extremism replacing them. He wants them turned into regional terror states. He wants them run as repressively as Saudi Arabia.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
His notion of peaceful conflict resolution is preventing it. He accused “some Western capitals (of) risking the security of the whole Arab world” by failing to increase toughness.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“This means that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has no choice but to become more assertive in international affairs,” he said. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He ludicrously claimed doing so is a way “to stand up for the genuine stability our region desperately needs.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“(W)e have a humanitarian responsibility to do what we can to end the suffering in Syria.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
In February 1968, then AP correspondent Peter Arnett wrote about Ben Tre. He cited an unnamed US major saying: “It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Intensive bombing and shelling slaughtered Vietnamese civilians. In mid-March, Charlie Company entered My Lai. Destroying the village to save it repeated. Hundreds were slaughtered. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Most were women, children, infants, and elderly victims. Bodies were found mutilated. Women were raped, then murdered. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Crimes of war and against humanity reflect longstanding US policy. Since early 2011, they continue in Syria. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Media scoundrels ignore them. They wrongfully blame Assad for terrorists’ crimes. Saudi Arabia is very much complicit. It’s a rogue state writ large.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Bin Abdulaziz<\/span> shamelessly called its monarchy and likeminded ones “champions of moderation.” <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
His notion of “humanitarian responsibility” is mass slaughter and destruction. It’s unspeakable atrocities. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It’s wrongfully blaming victims. It’s waging war on peace, stability and security. Times editors march in lockstep. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
They do so disgracefully. They shamelessly betray readers consistently. Doing so reflects longstanding Times policy.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
His new book is titled “Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanII.html<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It airs Fridays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
http:\/\/www.progressiveradionetwork.com\/the-progressive-news-hour<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

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New York Times Editors Support Wrong Over Right<\/b><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
by Stephen Lendman<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Longstanding Times policy is consistent. It promotes establishment values. It supports wealth, power and privilege. It endorses global US dominance. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
When America goes to war or plans one, Times editors march in lockstep. Propaganda substitutes for truth and full disclosure. Managed news misinformation is featured.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Editorial policy defends the indefensible. It backs wrong over right. It justifies what demands condemnation. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It supports banksters looting the federal treasury. It does so by not exposing and denouncing them. It does it by not demanding top Wall Street officials be prosecuted. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Monied interests run America. Times editors ignore it. They turn a blind eye to America’s de facto one party state. They endorse sham US elections. They give legitimacy to a rigged process. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
They give short shrift to growing US poverty, unemployment, underemployment, hunger, homelessness, and human misery.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
They support destroying vital safety net protections when most needed. They endorse force-fed austerity instead of denouncing it. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
News they claim fit to print isn’t fit to read. Managed news misinformation substitutes. Vital truths readers most need to know are suppressed. Core journalistic ethics are violated.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
On December 17, a flagrant human rights abuser got feature op-ed space. Doing so effectively endorses his nation’s policy.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz al Saud is Saudi Arabia’s UK ambassador. He’s a royal House of Saud member. His father, Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz, is a close King Abdullah ally.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Giving bin Abdulaziz feature op-space effectively supports one of the world’s most repressive regimes.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
State terror is official policy. Human and civil rights are denied. Authority rests solely with King Abdullah and royal family members.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Democracy is strictly forbidden. Constitutional provisions afford ordinary citizens and other residents no rights. Women are especially marginalized and denied.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Political parties and national elections are prohibited. So is media freedom. Most web sites are blocked. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Anyone dissenting is subject to arbitrary arrest and detention. Political critics, independent journalists, academics, foreign nationals, and human rights activists are especially vulnerable.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fundamentalist Sunni Islam Wahhabism is Saudi’s official state religion. Fanaticism defines it. Majority Shia nations are considered enemies. So are secular Arab states.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Wahhabis want them toppled. They want their own version of Islam replacing them. They operate lawlessly. They employ extreme tactics to achieve aims.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Saudi Arabia is hostile to Iran. It wants Syria’s Assad removed. It’s heavily involved in recruiting, funding and arming terrorist invaders.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It was caught red-handed supplying them with chemical weapons. New York Times editors ignored what demanded headlines.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
They reported nothing about new US\/Saudi-backed death squad atrocities. Dozens of Adra, Syrian men, women, children, infants, the elderly and infirm were massacred in cold blood. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Doing so is one of the most egregious crimes since Syria’s conflict erupted. Defenseless civilians were slaughtered like sheep. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Local residents called terrorist invaders “the decapitators.” They burned some civilians to death.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
They targeted government employees and their families. They had lists of names and addresses supplied them.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
They conducted sham Sharia trials. Guilt by accusation assured death by beheading. Others were shot in cold blood. Some were burned alive in bakery ovens.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Eyewitnesses described mass slaughter everywhere. Children were massacred like adults. Terrorists waged war without mercy.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
One survivor said everyone at Adra Ummalia hospital was killed. Syria is Obama’s war. He supports death squad invaders. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He’s providing funding, arming, training and direction. Death squad diplomacy substitutes for peaceful conflict resolution. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
War could continue for years. There’s nothing whatever civil about it. US-backed death squads invaded Syria. Assad responsibly battles to defeat them.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Syria is being ravaged and destroyed. Doing so adds another horrific war crime to Obama’s rap sheet.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Unspeakable numbers of innocent Syrian civilians could perish before conflict ends. Obama bears full responsibility. Key NATO partners, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and rogue Arab state allies share it. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
So do Times and other scoundrel media editors. Misreporting shows support for unconscionable crimes. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Giving feature op-ed space to an enemy of peace and egregious human rights abuser reflects it.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Bin Abdulaziz headlined<\/span><\/a> his Times op-ed “Saudi Arabia Will Go It Alone.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He called relations “with our Western partners..tested..because of differences over Iran and Syria.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“We believe that many of the West’s policies on both (countries) risk the stability and security of the Middle East.” <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“This is a dangerous gamble, about which we cannot remain silent, and will not stand idly by.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“The crisis in Syria continues unabated.” He stopped short of explaining Saudi involvement in exacerbating it.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Times editors ignore it. They wrongfully blame Assad for death squad invader crimes. They do it repeatedly. They do it reprehensibly. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It’s longstanding Times policy. So is giving feature op-ed space to loathsome figures like bin Abdulaziz.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He called Assad’s government “a weapon of mass destruction. Chemical weapons are but a small cog in (his) killing machine.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He called it “an evil regime that is hurting and harming the Syrian people.” He lied multiple times throughout his commentary claiming it.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Recent polls show Assad has strong popular support. In early September, Press TV<\/span><\/a> cited a US daily news service World Tribune one.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It showed 70% of Syrians support Assad. Another 20% back neither side. Only 10% endorse opposition elements. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Don’t expect New York Times editors to explain. Don’t expect bin Abdulaziz and likeminded rogues to feature truth and full disclosure.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Their agenda is ruthlessly repressive. Bin Abdulaziz wants the Islamic Republic of Iran and Syria’s secular government toppled. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He wants Wahhabist extremism replacing them. He wants them turned into regional terror states. He wants them run as repressively as Saudi Arabia.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
His notion of peaceful conflict resolution is preventing it. He accused “some Western capitals (of) risking the security of the whole Arab world” by failing to increase toughness.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“This means that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has no choice but to become more assertive in international affairs,” he said. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He ludicrously claimed doing so is a way “to stand up for the genuine stability our region desperately needs.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“(W)e have a humanitarian responsibility to do what we can to end the suffering in Syria.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
In February 1968, then AP correspondent Peter Arnett wrote about Ben Tre. He cited an unnamed US major saying: “It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Intensive bombing and shelling slaughtered Vietnamese civilians. In mid-March, Charlie Company entered My Lai. Destroying the village to save it repeated. Hundreds were slaughtered. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Most were women, children, infants, and elderly victims. Bodies were found mutilated. Women were raped, then murdered. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Crimes of war and against humanity reflect longstanding US policy. Since early 2011, they continue in Syria. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Media scoundrels ignore them. They wrongfully blame Assad for terrorists’ crimes. Saudi Arabia is very much complicit. It’s a rogue state writ large.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Bin Abdulaziz<\/span> shamelessly called its monarchy and likeminded ones “champions of moderation.” <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
His notion of “humanitarian responsibility” is mass slaughter and destruction. It’s unspeakable atrocities. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It’s wrongfully blaming victims. It’s waging war on peace, stability and security. Times editors march in lockstep. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
They do so disgracefully. They shamelessly betray readers consistently. Doing so reflects longstanding Times policy.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
His new book is titled “Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanII.html<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It airs Fridays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
http:\/\/www.progressiveradionetwork.com\/the-progressive-news-hour<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

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