Special to WorldTribune.com An unusual war of words has broken out between the New York Times and a leading Republican presidential contender from Texas. Last week, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s new book ‘A Time for Truth’ sold more copies than all but two of the 20 books on the New York Times best-seller list. The […]
Sol W. Sanders Today I am ashamed to be an American journalist In October 1956, my friend the leading Indian newsman of his generation, Shri Mulgaokar, wrote an iconic essay, “Today I am ashamed to be an Indian”. Mr. Mugaolkar flayed Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his communist Ambassdor to the United Nations […]
Sol W. Sanders [See Archive] An epidemic of blabberitis has broken out in Washington. Had one more faith in the sophistication of the present governing elite, “black propaganda” might be suspected — that is, deliberate disinformation designed to befuddle the enemy. After all, as James Jesus Angleton, old fox of a generation of professional […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Ed Koch In a May 3rd article in The New York Times, Russ Buettner discussed the world’s oldest profession and a new approach to dealing with it in New York. The article reported, “In a stark departure from decades of such prosecutions [only against the women], the women who were working […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Ed Koch In an April 4th New York Times op ed article, Tom Friedman endorsed what he designated to be “non-violent resistance by Palestinians” against Israel. He added that Palestinians need to “accompany every boycott, hunger strike or rock they throw at Israel with a detailed map” delineating their territorial demands. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid The New York Times, a paper supposedly devoted to freedom of speech, is giving sympathetic coverage to a lawsuit designed to silence an American Christian minister. Scott Lively is being sued by the George Soros-funded Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) for “crimes against humanity” for criticizing homosexuality during a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Ed Koch On March 4th, The New York Times editorialized on the subject of the surveillance by the NYPD of the Muslim community, seeking to acquire intelligence and the efforts of Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and Mayor Michael Bloomberg to keep New York City safe from another catastrophic attack as was […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Ed Koch According to an Associated Press story in the Feb. 24th Daily News, “Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly dispatched his detectives to surveil every Muslim-owned business and community center in Newark in the clearest sign yet that the NYPD’s fight against terrorism has gone terribly awry.” This announcement has set off […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sheda Vasseghi, FreePressers.com The following is based on recent statements by Amb. Ardeshir Zahedi, former foreign minister and and the last ambassador of the Shah in Washington, and Dr. Assad Homayoun, former minister at the Iranian Embassy in Washington. “I have come to believe that Israel will indeed strike Iran in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Based on an article by Cliff Kincaid for Accuracy in Media When Anita Dunn hasn’t been on CNN or MSNBC bashing the Republican presidential candidates and/or praising President Obama, she has been successfully lobbying for a Washington Post subsidiary by the name of Kaplan University. You may remember Dunn as the Obama […]