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Post by jdredd on Sept 1, 2023 14:13:29 GMT -5
My other traditional source of news, pre-ukraine, has been NPR (Neocon Public Radio). This morning I tuned in for a little while to hear some hack from the Uber-Neocon Financial Times whine about how Bakhmut had been destroyed by fighting. And you should buy his (of course) book about it. It is good that NPR took a break from its endless sports stories or news from the warmongers at BBC.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 5, 2023 21:26:34 GMT -5
It’s pretty predictable that once you realize the news from a source is way off and slanted about one subject, such as NPR’s pro Zelensky pro-NATO reporting, it puts their reporting on other subjects under suspicion.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 6, 2023 22:44:14 GMT -5
Let’s see: every month hundreds of Russians are being killed by American supplied weapons and what does the columnists in the NYT worry about? The editorial board worries about the aging of the American population and its consequences. Nicolas Kristoff is concerned about the “epidemic” of loneliness. Ross Douthat is bothered by wokeness creeping into government policies in England and Canada. And Bret Stevens is counting the reasons Americans hate Biden, and Ukraine is not one of them. Pathetic.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 13, 2023 9:12:30 GMT -5
Occasionally the female columnists in the NYT come close to writing an interesting piece (am I sexist? What do I care? I’ve never been PC) . Michele Goldberg, the NYT’s token recent “liberal” hire, wrote a column titled “ The Authors of ‘How Democracies Die’ Overestimated the Republicans”, which she complains about parts of the Constitution which are anti-majority rule. It’s true, but so what? I think it’s a bad idea to mess with the Constitution (except for repealing the second amendment, which isn’t going to happen). Liberals simply have to play the game better, or keep losing because of their incompetency. I looking forward to watching them run a candidate older than dirt in 2024. They got lucky in 2020 but I’m not sure they can repeat it now that the voters know Biden.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 20, 2023 0:59:20 GMT -5
Today’s rant from Bret: “How to Make Russia Really Pay for Invading Ukraine.” He advocates taking $300B of Russki cash in our banks and handing it over to the Zelensky regime. Is it legal? Who cares? What is legal or not in international geopolitics no longer matters, if it ever did. It’s all just about Will to Power. Sad but true. The Neocons claim to have the moral high ground, but that whole concept is subjective. They can claim America is still a force for good but that doesn’t make it so.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 23, 2023 15:10:54 GMT -5
Today Uber-Neocon Kristof has jumped on the Trudeau bandwagon in the Canada-India dust up. The Neocons are going to kiss Canada’s ass at the possible cost of alienating India? Good plan. All in the name of the so-called International Rule of Law that the CIA violates continually. It looks like the Anglo-Saxon countries are aggressively ganging up on India. Again.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 25, 2023 0:10:31 GMT -5
Thomas Friedman, long time NYT columnist, chimed on today on the Ukraine War claiming the ONLY way the war will end is by the Ukraine becoming a member of the EU AND NATO. Is this guy not been paying attention or is he delusional? He’s been to Ukraine a couple of times so I guess he’s paying attention. But to think at this point Russia will allow Ukraine to join NATO is just crazy Neocon pie-in-the-sky. By the way, he mentions Ukrainians displaying burnt-out Russki tanks in the piazza of a Kiev rch. If that doesn’t sum up the hypocrisy of the West I don’t know what does.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 28, 2023 21:37:46 GMT -5
David French, recent refugee from National Review, chimed in today on the Ukraine War, and tried to explain away the failure of Zelensky’s Big Push. His solution, of course: Give them more sh!t. He did compare the war to Korea’s Civil War, and wondered if that would be the best solution for the Ukraine: A stalemate, with Ukraine getting all the goodies that made South Korea so prosperous. But as I’ve said before, the Korean War is not over yet, nor would the Ukraine War be with some kind of armistice. Russia can simply not allow a NATO Ukraine forced on them. Everyone is waiting for America’s Presidential election though, but I can easily see Trump stabbing the anti-war right in the back like Obama did to the anti-war left in Afghanistan in 2009.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 3, 2023 13:45:43 GMT -5
Paul Krugman has chimed in again and comes right out and says the Neocon narrative: “So pay no attention to all those complaints about how much we’re spending in Ukraine. They aren’t justified by the actual cost of aid, and the people claiming to be worried about the cost don’t really care about the money. What they are, basically, is enemies of democracy, both abroad and at home”. Yes, we are “Making the world safe for Democracy”. Woo-hoo!
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Post by jdredd on Oct 6, 2023 11:45:55 GMT -5
As one of the Neocon columnists in the NYT I follow, David Brooks usually is very adept at straddling the fence but today he had a very long column on why Biden should be re-elected. While I agree with some of the things he says about the Biden economy, it is notable that he fails to mention Ukraine. He also try’s to discount Biden going into his dotage. An his reversal on the disgraceful border fence. But I get his “anybody but Trump” attitude. All I can hope for is God intervenes in this election, but that is a long shot.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 12, 2023 10:56:54 GMT -5
Michele Goldberg, who I guess is probably considered the Times ‘lefty’, actually talked about something that interests me today. Her column is titled “The Massacre in Israel and the Need for a Decent Left” where she takes some “leftists” to task for supporting Hamas. But what interests me is that she thinks there is enough Left left to be of any significance. Maybe on campuses there are small gangs, but who pays attention to them except for right wing pundits digging deep for new outrages?
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Post by jdredd on Oct 22, 2023 13:44:42 GMT -5
Sad that the “liberal” NYT has become, like the Democratic Party, the cheerleader of war. Article today: “Three Weapons That Israel and Ukraine Both Need From the U.S.” Yes, we are the Great Enabler. If we are the last, best hope of mankind then mankind has no hope, just war after war.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 1, 2023 14:55:39 GMT -5
Ross had an interesting column trying to assess the political realignments going on in America and Europe in wake of the Hamas/Israel rumble. All I have to add to it is how imho how much of the realignment is happening because of the demise of Marxism, which Ross didn’t have to mention for obvious reasons. Yes, China is still nominally Marxist but they have shown no interest in trying to export it after they imported Capitalism. What amuses me is the leftover anti-Marxists ranting against a phantom enemy.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 9, 2023 13:36:43 GMT -5
From today’s NYT editorial board: “ The Biden administration has asked Congress to approve a $105 billion military aid package, mostly to Israel and Ukraine, and lawmakers appear to be at an impasse over the border security measures included in it. It is essential that Congress overcome this opposition and approve it promptly, as an investment in America’s security goals.” the Times is doubling down on its Neocon support for more American munitions to kill Russians And Palestinians. And some for Taiwan too. But I guess like all Democrat leaning press, they have become part of the war party. The Democrats deserve defeat in 2024. Not that the GOP deserves victory. A pox on both their houses.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 15, 2023 4:22:23 GMT -5
Today in the NYT: David French, National Review refugee, tries once again to make a case to his Republican colleagues as to why they should enthusiastically give more billions to Zelensky. The way I see it, it is years of propaganda from right wing media sources like the National Review that helped create this new generation of America Firsters. They created that Frankenstein and now that are reaping what they have sown. Amusing.
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