Common Dreams:
"Recently unearthed recordings of former President Ronald Reagan calling Africans 'monkeys' made the point that Trump is Reagan's ideological heir harder to deny.
The October 1971 comments, which were revealed Tuesday by historian Tim Naftali in an article for The Atlantic, concerned Reagan's anger that the United Nations voted to recognize the People's Republic of China.
'Last night, I tell you, to watch that thing on television as I did,' said Reagan to then-President Richard Nixon. 'To see those, those monkeys from those African countries—damn them, they're still uncomfortable wearing shoes!' "
-->The NYT did not cover this story, although a Reuters article did make it to the NYT website. Why didn't our newspaper of record print it? Because it shows two recent presidents who were deeply racist. The NYT just doesn't want that image for our country, however true it is.
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Common Dreams:
"When some of the world's top scientists conclude an international summit in Geneva next week, they are expected to call for a major shift to vegetarian diets around the world in order to keep the warming of the globe under 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
Simply focusing on reducing or eliminating carbon emissions from fossil fuel industries, factories, and vehicles will not be enough to avoid catastrophic climate change, according to a leaked draft of the report out of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) summit. ...
'The consumption of healthy and sustainable diets, such as those based on coarse grains, pulses and vegetables, and nuts and seeds … presents major opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions,' the draft reads, according to The Guardian."
-->The NYT, like most US media, is not really focused on global warming as the climate collapses around us. It didn't print this story.
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FAIR:
"The Reagan administration in 1982 coerced National Public Radio (NPR) to cover more favorably the US terrorist war then being waged against Nicaragua. ... NPR promptly buckled under pressure, reassigning reporters viewed as 'too easy on the Sandinistas,' and hiring conservative pundit Linda Chavez to provide 'balance.'
Today, NPR needs no state coercion to toe Washington’s regime change line on Venezuela. NPR published an exclusive interview on May 30 with Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó, in which the self-proclaimed 'interim president' was described as 'a fugitive in his own country' confronting 'authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro.' ...
When it comes to covering Venezuela’s elected Maduro government, it appears that NPR’s favorite adjective is 'authoritarian.' The public news network has referred to President Nicolás Maduro and his administration as 'authoritarian' and/or a 'regime' no less than 26 times since December, with no explanation why the Venezuelan government merits an editorialized moniker that ideologically justifies US intervention."
-->The same is true for the NYT's coverage of Maduro's election victory. The electoral fraud accusation made by NPR are straight from the empire's playbook. Weapons of mass destruction anyone?
