The Rocket and The Bomb

[Thomas Eckhardt]

On Wed, 3 May 2017 08:58:32 -0400
  ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> The
> Times has brilliance, from time to time, so does the 
>Guardian. Not
> that we should trust either, generally, on geopolitics 
>or Washington
> politics, though they do a decent job on both. 

No. It is war propaganda, pure and simple. Just like in 
2002 and 2003. The Guardian's cooking section is quite 
okay, though...

> Also, 
> there's nothing
> brilliant in Howard's reporting here. In fact, there is 
> no reporting
> in what you describe as brilliant.

Yes, make that "commendable". Of course, I didn't say 
"reporting".

Cf. "Who supplies the news? Patrick Cockburn on 
misreporting in Syria and Iraq":

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n03/patrick-cockburn/who-supplies-the-news

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