The Empire and Inequality Report, no 12
by Paul Street, ZNet, 28 February 2007
“The United States has always exercised as much power as it could. It has always coupled that power with efforts to spread freedom…and fulfill their mission as the vanguard of progress.”
– David Brooks , New York Times columnist, February 1, 2007
I’m always amused when “conservatives” describe The New York Times as “left” and “liberals” describe it as intelligent. Dominant United States media’s leading “newspaper of record” regularly and routinely reports and comments on current events in remarkably sycophantic and stupid ways that hide and justify the crimes of Empire and Inequality.