The New York Times:
"Trump's Attack on Venezuela Is Illegal and Unwise."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/opinion/venezuela-attack-trump-us.html

-->The NYT always plays it safe when it come to encouraging US imperialism. For the last 25 years, the newspaper has criticized Chavez, Maduro, and all things Venezuelan. Has the NYT ever run an article that favored the Bolivarian Revolution? Or how about a neutral article, admitting that its leaders were trying to do something right for its people? Like the Guardian in the UK, Venezuela has always been portrayed as this barbaric state, in need to some sort of military intervention. How loudly the NYT cheered when the Pentagon would find the latest opposition candidate? How out of touch these papers are about socialist leaders in Latin America. 

Venezuela marks the boundaries of freedom of expression in our national media. Has our "newspaper of record" ever printed anything favorable about Nicaragua or Cuba? Has England's well known newspaper, The Guardian? We know that the NYT has supported 10 our of 12 US-backed coups in Latin America since 1954 (Truthdig).

I think that both newspapers support US imperialism without questioning Pentagon logic. In fact, both papers are the propaganda instruments of the empire. Neither would ever dare go against their imperial paymasters.  

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Common Dreams:
"Trump spent 2025 doing everything in his power to demolish our invaluable Social Security system itself.

The walls of the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, which lies blocks from the US Capitol, are decorated with stunning New Deal-era murals. The most famous of these murals, 'The Meaning of Social Security,' depicts life before and after Social Security. The mural shows the best of America, what we can do when we all come together to build our Social Security system. Thanks to Donald Trump, “The Meaning of Social Security”—along with everything it represents—is now in grave danger.

The Trump administration is making moves to demolish the Wilbur J. Cohen Building, inevitably destroying 'The Meaning of Social Security' in the process. Trump plans to take a wrecking ball to this key piece of Social Security’s history, just as he did to the east wing of the White House. But this is about more than just a mural. Trump spent 2025 doing everything in his power to demolish our invaluable Social Security system itself."
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-destroy-social-security

-->The NYT is very careful with this crisis in Social Security. One one side it pretends to be in favor of working people and their right to retire. On the other hand, the Stock Market can't wait to get its hands on this last asset that the common people own. Time after time, Wall Street interests are put ahead of protecting the crown jewel of the New Deal. When is the last time that you read anything about the billionaires' assault on Social Security? The NYT is all the news that Wall Street wants you to read.

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Aljazeera:
"Israel faces mounting global condemnation as a ban on dozens of international aid organisations working to provide life-saving assistance to Palestinians in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip has come into effect. On Thursday, a group of 17 human rights and advocacy organisations in Israel condemned the prohibition, saying it 'undermines principled humanitarian action, endangers staff and communities, and compromises effective aid delivery'.

'Israel, as the occupying power, has an obligation to ensure adequate supplies to Palestinian civilians. Not only is it failing to fulfill that obligation, but it is also preventing others from filling the gap,' the groups said.

Israel has revoked the operating licences of 37 aid groups, including Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, and the Norwegian Refugee Council, for failing to comply with new government regulations. The new rules require international NGOs working in Gaza and the occupied West Bank to provide detailed information on staff members, as well as their funding and operations."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/1/israel-faces-widespread-condemnation-as-ngo-ban-comes-into-effect

-->I couldn't find this story in the NYT. In fact, few media outlets covered it at all. The genocide of the Palestinians is still the empire's secret.

Drop Site News:
"DOHA, QATAR—'If President Donald Trump wants to achieve stability in the Middle East, he should put an end to Israeli interference in U.S. policy toward Palestine, senior Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal told Drop Site. 'Instead,' Meshaal said, 'the U.S. should enter into a genuine process of direct negotiations with Hamas and other Palestinian political factions aimed at establishing friendly, bilateral relations.'

'Unfortunately, one of the problems with the U.S. administration is that it prioritizes Israel’s interests more than the United States’ own interests. Even Trump’s people—MAGA—came to realize that Israel is a burden on them, restricting and harming U.S. interests.

'I am simply calling on the American people and the U.S. administration to judge based on America’s interests, not Israel’s' Meshaal said. 'If they look at us even for a moment in a fair and impartial way, they will see that the Palestinian people are oppressed under occupation, and they have the right to resist—unless America steps in and forces Israel to withdraw, in which case we would thank America.' He added, 'When the world fails to help you, you have no choice but to resist the occupier until you force it to withdraw.' ”
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/hamas-leader-khaled-meshaal-interview-trump-maga-united-states-support-israel-gaza-netanyahu

-->How refreshing to hear from Hamas. It's too bad it has to come from dropsitenews instead of a larger media outlet. Of course, our mainstream media is little more than pro-Israel propaganda. It wouldn't cover this story.

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The Intercept:
When Oregon music teacher Susan Lewis logged onto a Zoom meeting with her boss one afternoon in August 2024, she thought she would be preparing for a sixth year teaching at Valley Catholic School. Instead, she lost her job.

Lewis was shocked, she recalled in an interview with The Intercept, as were her colleagues and students. The school did not give any explanation for why they did not renew her contract. Unbeknownst to Lewis, the pro-Israel blacklist organization StopAntisemitism had recently launched an online campaign against her, framing her social media posts about the genocide in Gaza as 'using her platform to spread vile antisemitic hate online.' ...

Lewis is one of at least 400 people StopAntisemitism has taken credit for getting ousted from their jobs in its online crusade, which has drawn widespread attention for targeting more prominent figures — including right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson, progressive actor-turned-activist Cynthia Nixon, and the popular children’s educator Rachel Accurso, known by her stage name Ms. Rachel. Lewis."
https://theintercept.com/2025/12/20/stopantisemitism-israel-blacklist-teacher-job-firings/

-->This firing reflects what happened during the McCarthy Era. Instead of "Communism," we now have ardent Zionists accusing the rest of being antisemites.

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Common Dreams:
"More than 40 advocacy groups on Monday called on Wikipedia editors and the Wikimedia board of trustees to reject efforts by the web-based encyclopedia’s co-founders to censor the site’s entry on the Gaza genocide.

After months of internal debate, editors of the Wikipedia article titled 'Allegations of genocide in the 2023 Israeli attack on Gaza' renamed the entry 'Gaza genocide' in July 2024, reflecting experts’ growing acknowledgement that Israel’s annihilation and siege of the Palestinian exclave met the legal definition of the ultimate crime.
'Their efforts deny the documented reality of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and contradict the broad consensus among genocide scholars, international human rights organizations, UN experts, and both Palestinian and Israeli human rights organizations,' the groups continue. 'In doing so, Wales and Sanger are engaging in attempted censorship and genocide denial.' ”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-genocide-wikipedia

-->Wikimedia is pro genocide! Its founders are Zionists. This story wasn't covered in The NYT, which has its own problems for supporting Israel for the last 50 years.

 Common Dreams:
“The American public is demanding decisive action to end US complicity in the Israeli government’s war crimes by stopping the flow of weapons to Israel. Jewish Voice for Peace Action on Friday led a coalition of groups demanding that the Democratic Party stop providing arms to the Israeli government.

Speaking outside the Democratic National Committee’s Winter Meeting in Los Angeles, Jewish Voice for Peace Action (JVP Action) held a press conference calling on Democrats to oppose all future weapons shipments to Israel, whose years-long assault on Gaza has, according to one estimate, killed more than 100,000 Palestinian people.

While carrying banners that read, 'Stop Arming Israel,' speakers at the press conference also called on Democrats to reject money from the American Israeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC), which has consistently funded primary challenges against left-wing critics of Israel."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/jewish-voice-for-peace

-->Why does the NYT avoid printing stories like this? Probably because the newspaper is beholding to the billionaire class that continues supporting Israel.

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The Guardian:
"Malnutrition continues to take a toll among Gaza’s young despite a ceasefire declared two months ago, with more than 9,000 children treated for acute malnutrition in October alone, according to the latest UN figures.

While the immediate threat of famine has receded for most of the 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza after the ceasefire announcement on 10 October, the UN and other aid agencies report continuing Israeli restrictions on their humanitarian aid shipments, which they say fall well below the needs of a population weakened and traumatised by two years of war, homelessness and living in flimsy shelters. ...

An average of 140 aid trucks a day have crossed so far in December, in convoys organised by the UN and the International Organisation for Migration. That is well below the target of 600 trucks a day set as part of the ceasefire."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/09/children-gaza-hospitalised-acute-malnutrition-un-says

-->Another story gets left out of our mainstream media. Nine thousand suffer acute malnutrition, but still the NYT doesn't print these crimes against humanity.

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Common Dreams:
"Among the clearest voices cutting through the rhetoric is professor John Mearsheimer, perhaps the most prominent American realist in international relations. He does not mince words: Venezuela is not a threat to the United States. Its military lacks both the capacity and the intention to project power beyond its borders. Suggesting otherwise is 'laughable,' he notes, because the true irritant is ideological.

 Venezuela’s Bolivarian model—imperfect and embattled as it is—represents a deviation from Washington’s preferred political order, a deviation the US has repeatedly sought to crush in Latin America for decades. For Mearsheimer, even if one entertained the fantasy of using force to change the regime, the idea collapses immediately under logistical absurdity and moral bankruptcy. Invading a nation of 28 million people, and then attempting to occupy and 'stabilize' it, would be catastrophic in cost, chaotic in outcome, and impossible to justify.

The national security pretext collapses further under the testimony of Sheriff David Hathaway, a former Drug Enforcement Administration supervisory agent with firsthand experience in Latin America. He dismisses the drug-trafficking narrative not just as false, but as deliberately false. Cocaine originates in Colombia and Peru, not Venezuela, and the US fentanyl crisis has nothing to do with Caracas."
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/against-intervention-venezuela

-->Instead of printing stories about how foolish US warmongering really is, the NYT runs opinion pieces like "The Case for Overthrowing Maduro." Why, it's the empire's newspaper.

Mondoweiss:
"Last month, a top staffer at the Jewish organization J Street who had worked for Obama and Harris explained that Congress’s tradition of backing Israel 'no matter what' was imposed by a 'well-funded group of… Jews.'

'A small, organized and well-funded group of American Jews treated the issue as a threshold question in elections, and most candidates decided it wasn’t worth antagonizing them,' Ilan Goldenberg wrote. Not long ago, such attacks on the Israel lobby (including my own) were dismissed as antisemitic conspiracy theories. Now, a leading Jewish organization publishes them.

That’s because the American Jewish community is today in open crisis over its historic support for Israel. Prominent Jews are finally attacking the lobby, a political structure created 60 years ago by leading Jewish groups to make sure there was no daylight between the Israeli and U.S. governments." 
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/12/the-israel-lobby-is-melting-down-before-our-eyes/?ml_recipient=173156638011688915&ml_link=173156623217329481

-->This Sunday's NYT Opinions Section has finally gotten around to describing the world of hurt the Democrats have put themselves in by blindly supporting Israel's genocide. It's about time! But still the NYT talks about hiring smarter analysts, while avoiding the moral and human rights issues that have led America's youth to rebel. It's the genocide, stupid!

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Common Dreams:
"Venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale, a co-founder of data platform company Palantir, is calling for the return of public hangings as part of a broader push to restore what he describes as 'masculine leadership' to the US.

In a statement posted on X Friday, Lonsdale said that he supported changing the so-called 'three strikes' anti-crime law to ensure that anyone who is convicted of three violent crimes gets publicly executed, rather than simply sent to prison for life.

'If I’m in charge later, we won’t just have a three strikes law,' he wrote. 'We will quickly try and hang men after three violent crimes. And yes, we will do it in public to deter others.' Lonsdale then added that 'our society needs balance,' and said that 'it’s time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable.' ”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/joe-lonsdale-public-hangings

-->Why no coverage of this story? I think it is because it exposes some of the monsters we have running our government. Perhaps Lonsdale would like to hang them himself, you know to give the whole thing a little more "masculine leadership." I think there should be a penalty for becoming a billionaire in a society where so many families can't afford to eat.

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Common Dreams:
"A new assessment by the international wealth management giant UBS this week shows that the number of billionaires in the world has reached new heights and that the acceleration of inherited wealth represents a new chapter for the ultra-rich in the 21st Century.

The latest UBS Billionaire Ambitions Report, unveiled Thursday, details how just 2,919 individual billionaires have a combined wealth of $15.8 trillion. The number of billionaires in the world is up nearly 9 percent from the previous year. In the United States—where nearly a third of those on the list reside—924 billionaires hold a collective $6.9 trillion in wealth.

The assessment by UBS—which surveyed its own billionaire clients as part of the survey, now its eleventh edition—emphasizes a surge of inherited wealth among the billionaire class. According to the report."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ubs-billionaires-report

-->A few business publications carried this story. But why not the NYT? Well, our newspaper of record spends its time defending the very wealthy in our society. The revolution just won't be "fit to print," whenever it appears on the horizon.

Common Dreams:
"Reports of Israeli authorities torturing Palestinian prisoners have been publicized for years, with freed detainees describing frequent beatings, attacks by dogs, and rape and sexual abuse, and the United Nations Committee Against Torture now says Palestinians have been victimized by a 'de facto state policy of organized and widespread torture.'

Both Palestinian and Israeli rights groups gave reports to the committee on conditions in Israeli detention centers, detailing Israel’s regular deprivation of food and water for detainees as well as the 'severe beatings,' electrocution, waterboarding. and sexual violence Israeli guards and other authorities perpetrate. ...

The de facto policy of torture in Israel’s has 'gravely intensified' since Israel began bombarding Gaza after a Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023, the report found. Despite a ceasefire that was agreed to in October, those retaliatory attacks against the exclave are continuing and still constitute a genocide, Amnesty International said this week."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/torture-in-israel

-->Let's face it. Israel routinely tortures, rapes and murders Palestinian prisoners. Why can't our newspaper of record, The NYT, admit this as well?

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Amnesty:
"Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza continues unabated despite ceasefire. More than a month after a ceasefire was announced and all living Israeli hostages were released, Israeli authorities are still committing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, by continuing to deliberately inflict conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction, without signalling any change in   their intent, said Amnesty International today.

In a briefing released today, the organization provides a legal analysis of the ongoing genocide along with testimonies from local residents, medical staff and humanitarian workers highlighting the dire ongoing conditions for Palestinians in Gaza.

'The ceasefire risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal. But while Israeli authorities and forces have reduced the scale of their attacks and allowed limited amounts of humanitarian aid into Gaza, the world must not be fooled. Israel’s genocide is not over,' said Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International."
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/11/israels-genocide-against-palestinians-in-gaza-continues-unabated-despite-ceasefire/

-->Well maybe the genocide is over, if you depend on the NYT to get your news. Why wouldn't the NYT cover this story?

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Common Dreams:
"A United Nations report claims that Israel’s assault on Gaza has led to 'the most severe economic crisis ever recorded,' with nearly seven decades’ worth of economic development wiped out over the span of two years.

The report, which was released on Monday by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), found that all 2.3 million people in the exclave now live below the poverty line, with per-capita gross domestic product falling to just $161, one of the lowest figures in the world.

Lancet Study Shows Over 3 Million Years of Human Life Lost in Israeli Assault on Gaza
Additionally, the report found that the unemployment rate in Gaza was as high as 80%, while inflation in the exclave surged to nearly 240%, as the Israeli military blockade caused a widespread famine by preventing basic necessities from reaching Gaza residents."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-gaza-economic-collapse

-->Why no NYT coverage of this UN and Lancet study of the economic ramifications of genocide? Our newspaper of record always errors on the side of Zionists.

The New York Times:
"The Rev. Numa Molina wields unusual power for a parish priest in a working-class commuter town near the Caribbean coast. The Venezuelan Jesuit is on a first-name basis with the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro. He conducts private Masses for Mr. Maduro’s family and advises his son, a ruling party lawmaker, on his outreach to the Roman Catholic Church, Venezuela’s dominant faith. ...

During his workweek, Father Molina traverses Venezuela with armed bodyguards in a white pickup truck with tinted windows, hosts a weekly television program and provides aid to poor Venezuelans.

Father Molina was an early backer of Mr. Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chávez, who won a landslide victory in 1998 on a promise of redistributing Venezuela’s oil wealth. His support of the country’s ostensibly socialist government have led detractors to label him the 'Communist Priest.' ”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/world/americas/numa-molina-maduro-catholic-church.html

-->Why, this is a story that has something good to say about Maduro and Hugo Chavez! After all these years of warmongering, The NYT casts doubts on a possible US military invasion. Is this the analysis of the Pentagon, which views such an attack as foolhardy and unwinnable? It is hard to tell, but something has changed in the ruling class.  

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 Common Dreams:
"Since August, the US has been amassing military assets in the Caribbean. Warships, bombers, and thousands of troops have been joined by the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, in the largest regional deployment in decades. ...

With the 'narcoterrorism' accusations against Maduro and associates, Western journalists absolve US officials of the burden of proof (New York Times, 11/4/25; Financial Times, 10/6/25; Wall Street Journal, 11/5/25). There has never been any public evidence about Maduro, or other high-ranking Venezuelan officials indicted by the US, being involved in drug trafficking via the Cartel of the Suns, while a leaked US intelligence memo rejected the notion of government ties to Tren de Aragua. ...

True to form (FAIR.org, 2/9/17, 4/13/18, 7/3/20), many liberal establishment outlets have been more bellicose than the US president they have occasionally chided for murdering scores of civilians in the Caribbean (The Hill, 10/30/25; Foreign Policy, 11/7/25). The New York Times’ Bret Stephens (1/14/25, 10/10/25, 11/17/25) has advocated for a regime-changing military intervention for months (FAIR.org, 2/12/25). Quite tellingly, Stephens does not regret supporting the Iraq War (New York Times, 3/21/23)."
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/venezuela-media-war

-->Yes, the US media has been warmongering all along, cheerleading the grand entrance of US troops into yet another quagmire. Endless wars depend on our national media to champion war crimes.

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Aljazeera:
"At least 67 Palestinian children have been killed in the Gaza Strip since a United States-brokered ceasefire agreement came into effect last month, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says. Speaking during a news conference in Geneva on Friday, UNICEF spokesperson Ricardo Pires said the death toll includes a baby girl who was killed in an Israeli air strike on a home in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis on

It also includes seven other children killed a day earlier, as Israel carried out a wave of attacks across the enclave. 'This is during an agreed ceasefire. The pattern is staggering,' Pires told reporters of the death toll since October 11, the first full day of the truce between Israel and Hamas.

'As we have repeated many times, these are not statistics: Each was a child with a family, a dream, a life – suddenly cut short by continued violence.' Palestinian children have borne the brunt of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, with UNICEF estimating last month that 64,000 children have been killed and injured in Israeli attacks since the war began in October 2023."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/21/at-least-67-palestinian-children-killed-in-gaza-since-ceasefire-began-un

-->Is our media just sick of reporting Israel's war crimes? Leave it to Aljazeera to give US citizens a truer picture of the devastation and destruction of the Palestinian people.

Common Dreams:
"Just as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced new branding for the US military campaign in Latin America, now known as 'Operation Southern Spear,' the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, on Thursday offered a message of peace directly to the people of the United States as he warned against further conflict.

In an exchange with a CNN correspondent during a rally for the nation’s youth in Caracas, Maduro urged President Donald Trump not to prolong the region’s military engagement. Asked if he had a message for the people of the United States, Maduro said in Spanish: 'To unite for the peace of the continent. No more endless wars. No more unjust wars. No more Libya. No more Afghanistan' ...

He said that attacks on boats, which have now claimed the lives of at least 80 people, are part of President Donald Trump’s targeting of 'narco-terrorists.' However, the administration has produced no evidence proving the allegations against these individuals nor shared with the American people the legal basis for the extrajudicial killings that deprive victims of due process."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/no-more-endless-wars-maduro-says-to-american-people-calling-for-peace-in-face-of-trump-threats

-->The mainstream media never calls into question the US threats and intimidation directed at Venezuela. The US media has only one point of view when it comes to US imperialism.

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Common Dreams:
"Mexico this week led 59 United Nations member states in affirming their support for the International Criminal Court and—without mentioning US officials by name—decrying their sanctions against ICC judges in retaliation for efforts to prosecute Israeli leaders for alleged crimes against humanity in Gaza.

The Mexican mission to the UN delivered a letter reaffirming the 59 nations’ 'continued and unwavering support for the independence, impartiality, and integrity of the ICC,' the Hague-based tribunal that is the world’s only permanent court with jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and aggression.

'We express our deep concern over recent measures sanctioning ICC officials, staff, and those cooperating with the court,' the letter continues. 'Such measures erode the international rule of law, constitute an unacceptable interference with judicial independence, undermine ongoing investigations, and threaten the global fight against impunity.' ”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/mexico-icc-sanctions

-->The NYT didn't cover this latest criticism of US human rights. Again, the US is isolated in the world community.
 
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Common Dreams:
"For years, there have been whispers that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who had ties to key officials in the US and foreign governments, was involved with Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad.

However, the Epstein/Mossad ties were often labeled by US corporate media as 'unfounded' (New York Times, 8/24/25), dismissed as a 'conspiracy theory' (New York Times, 7/16/25), or said to have been 'largely manufactured by paranoiacs and attention seekers and credulous believers' (New York Times, 9/9/25). Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has claimed that 'Epstein’s conduct, both the criminal and the merely despicable, had nothing whatsoever to do with the Mossad or the State of Israel.'

Drop Site‘s investigations into the Handala [a hacking group] have included six major stories since late September, four of which have centered around 'Epstein’s work on behalf of Israeli military interests, particularly as it relates to his role in the development of Israel’s cyber warfare industry.' ”
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/jeffrey-epstein-mossad-corporate-media

-->The NYT protecting Israel again. Our newspaper of record just doesn't want to hear the connection between Epstein and Israel.