Thomas Friedman
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Feigning moral outrage, the Times’ Thomas Friedman comes to the defense of the Saudi killer regime By Barry Grey
Leave it to Thomas Friedman, the New York Times’ chief foreign affairs commentator, to outdo his colleagues at the nation’s foremost sounding board for CIA propaganda when it comes to hypocrisy and deceit. This he has achieved in an op-ed piece on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi published in Wednesday’s print edition under the headline… Continue reading
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Media: Thomas Friedman’s Perverse Love Affair With ISIS
For the second time in as many years, Thomas Friedman has explicitly advocated that the United States use the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria as a proxy force against Syria, Russia, Iran and Hezbollah. The New York Times foreign affairs columnist made this suggestion in his Wednesday column, “Why Is Trump Fighting ISIS… Continue reading
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Friedman Goes After Trump: Hey, Massive Bombing Was MY Idea!
Where could Trump have gotten the idea that his “infantile threats of massive bombing” would be taken seriously as foreign policy proposals? Well, as a resident of New York City, maybe he reads the New York Times: There is only Option 2 — bombing Iraq, over and over and over again, until either Saddam says… Continue reading
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Tom Friedman Not Sucking It on Iraq War
I guess one great thing about being a Times columnist is that you not only get to write about the present–you can also re-write your own past. Continue reading
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EI: Palestinian heritage vandalized | Thomas Friedman | Ameer Makhoul on prisoner swap | And more …
7 November 2011 — UPDATE FROM THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA LATEST OPINION AND FEATURES FROM THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA Israel’s vandalism of Palestinian heritage By Abe Hayeem, 7 November 2011Amongst the fallout of Palestine’s admission as a member state, Israel’s warning that it “will now reconsider its cooperation with UNESCO” is the biggest irony. http://electronicintifada.net/content/israels-vandalism-palestinian-heritage/10564 Continue reading
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Book Review: Yankee Doodle Ecologist: Tom Friedman and the Green Revolution By Jerry Harris
The book’s title, Hot, Flat, and Crowded is a good indicator as to how Friedman understands environmental problems. Underline that word crowded because the book takes us on a Malthusian ride through the Third World. It’s overpopulation, not capitalism and its need for every expanding accumulation that is destroying the world’s environment. Continue reading
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Thomas Friedman: Hooked on War by Norman Solomon
Reading his “Letter From Baghdad” column in the New York Times on Wednesday, you’d never know that Thomas Friedman has a history of enthusiasm for war. Now he laments that Iraq is bad for the United States — “everyone loves seeing us tied down here” — stuck in the “madness that is Iraq.” And he Continue reading
The New Dark Age 