Judith Miller redux? (The Iran version)

from Democracy Now!:


NYT Scrutinized for Report on Hezbollah Training Iraqis in Iran

The New York Times is coming under criticism for publishing an article based solely on unnamed sources suggesting that the Lebanese group Hezbollah is training Iraqi militants inside Iran. The article by Michael Gordon was published on Monday, one day after Iraqi government spokesperson Ali al-Dabbagh said Iraq has no hard evidence of Iranian support of insurgents in Iraq. John Stauber of PR Watch said Gordon’s article is “reminiscent of the horrendous errors of judgment and bad journalism committed by Michael Gordon, Judith Miller and others at the New York Times who turned the paper into a conduit for phony stories that sold the war in Iraq.” Retired Air Force Colonel Sam Gardiner said he feels the article in Monday’s Times is “part of a strategic communications plan.”

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/5/6/headlines

Increasingly impoverished, increasingly homeless, lower classes of The USA, must we constantly worry about Israel?

I suggest Israel either
1) Israel take care of itself
2) or else return the funding that is supposedly given to Israel help to defend itself.

If Iran is threatening Israel maybe Israel should deal with it.

and the other Israel lobbies. This is increasingly coming under more scrutiny and high time too.

his columns make nice fish wrap. Other than that, its total BS.