As the 2016 presidential sails into the sunset, one fact ought to concern Americans who rely on an independent press for information – a good many reporters were not independent at all. They worked hand-in-glove with the Clinton campaign against both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. Consider the emails released by Wikileaks -- emails that would have remained secret, but now … [Read more...]
New York Times avoids truth about Wiesel
The New York Times ran a full page, glowing obituary tribute of words to Elie Wiesel, “who the world would never forget.” Just one of 75 paragraphs of praise admitted that Wiesel “had his detractors.” Literary critic Alfred Kazin merely “wondered whether he had embellished some stories.” And, “questions were raised about whether ‘Night’ was a memoir or a novel as it was … [Read more...]
U.S. billions futilely spent training foreign forces
Thousands of American-trained security forces in the Middle East have collapsed or defected despite the expenditure of tens of millions of American dollars. The New York Times named three countries with the failures: Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. Pentagon-trained army and police in Iraq’s Anbar Province, the heartland of the Islamic State, barely engaged the … [Read more...]