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The New Yorker's Big Cover Story Reveals Five Uncomfortable Truths About U.S. and Russia
The most astonishing aspect of the discourse on Russia is how little attention is paid to the risks of fueling a new Cold War.
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Watch How Casually False Claims Are Published: New York Times and Nicholas Lemann Edition
The Paper of Record publishes a claim it knows to be false about the Snowden reporting. Why?
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WashPost Is Richly Rewarded for False News About Russia Threat While Public Is Deceived
In the current D.C. climate on Russia, all relevant journalistic incentives encourage and reward false news.
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Anonymous Leaks to the WashPost About the CIA's Russia Beliefs Are No Substitute for Evidence
There are many obvious reasons for skepticism about anonymous press leaks regarding Russia, but they are no match for partisan needs.
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CNN and the NYT Are Deliberately Obscuring Who Perpetrated the Afghan Hospital Attack
From the start, not even the U.S. military had the audacity to try to obscure that they did this. They left that dirty work to their leading media outlets, which, as usual, are more than eager and happy to comply.
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NYT Claims U.S. Abides by Cluster Bomb Treaty: The Exact Opposite of Reality
For the NYT to tell its readers that the U.S. — one of the leading cluster bomb states on the planet — is actually one of the countries that “have not yet joined the treaty but have abided by its provisions” is nationalistic propaganda of the most extreme kind.