The NYT:
"Colin Powell Still Wants Answers. In 2003, he made the case for invading Iraq to halt its weapons programs. The analysts who provided the intelligence now say it was doubted inside the C.I.A. at the time."
-->This story is a perfect example of NYT reporting. As the disastrous war on Iraq was being sold to the American people in 1993, Colin Powell was caught lying to the UN. Not caught by the NYT, of course, which couldn't stop hyping the invasion at the time.
By 1994, the NYT is printing stories about how Powell was misled by the CIA. Missing from all these accounts, however, was Powell's role in covering up the My Lai massacre, the murder of over 500 civilians in what was another US war of aggression against a Third World country.
As an Army major and deputy operations officer of the Americal Division that was fighting in the district, Powell was the "go to person" for investigating whether this war crime had actually happened. There was plenty of evidence. Not only were men, women, children and infants killed, but some of the women were gang-raped and their bodies mutilated.
Not surprisingly, Major Powell, found nothing. He only interviewed a few officers and reported to superiors that nothing had happened. In fact a military review panel after the massacre had become national news found that "senior officers of the Americal Division had destroyed evidence to protect their comrades."
So Powell's lies to the UN about Iraq were no "blight" on his otherwise admirable military record. He was the go-to African American man when it came to selling US war crimes to the rest of the world. And the NYT is the go-to newspaper in covering up how these war crimes are committed by the American Empire.
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The Intercept:
As protests against police violence spread to every state in the U.S. and dramatic images flooded in from cities across the country, President Donald Trump and his attorney general spun an ominous story of opportunistic leftists exploiting a national trauma to sow chaos and disorder. They were the anti-fascists known as 'antifa,' and according to the administration they were domestic terrorists who would be policed accordingly.
But while the White House beat the drum for a crackdown on a leaderless movement on the left, law enforcement offices across the country were sharing detailed reports of far-right extremists seeking to attack the protesters and police during the country’s historic demonstrations, a trove of newly leaked documents reveals.
Among the steady stream of threats from the far-right were repeated encounters between law enforcement and heavily armed adherents of the so-called boogaloo movement, which welcomes armed confrontation with cops as means to trigger civil war. With much of the U.S. policing apparatus on the hunt for antifa instigators, those violent aspirations appear to have materialized in a string of targeted attacks in California that left a federal protective services officer and a sheriff’s deputy dead and several other law enforcement officials wounded."
-->The NYT does stories about how Germany is threatened by far right extremists. But our "newspaper of record" does many more stories about antifa in the US than far right armed groups. It didn't cover these leaked documents.
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The Guardian:
"An Israeli company whose spyware has been used to target journalists in India, politicians in Spain, and human rights activists in Morocco may soon be forced to divulge information about its government clients and practices after a judge in California ruled that a lawsuit against the company could proceed.
NSO Group was sued by WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, last year, after the popular messaging app accused the company of sending malware to 1,400 of its users over a two-week period and targeting their mobile phones. ...
WhatsApp and research collaborators at Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, alerted the 1,400 users who they say were targeted in the attack last year, prompting many of the individuals to come forward. They included more than a dozen journalists in India, prominent journalists and human rights campaigners in Morocco, exiled Rwandan activists living in Europe, and, as the Guardian reported this week, key figures in the Catalan pro-independence movement in Spain.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jul/17/us-judge-whatsapp-lawsuit-against-israeli-spyware-firm-nso-can-proceed
-->Always eager to whitewash Israel, the NYT did not report this story about the NSO spying company.
-->Always eager to whitewash Israel, the NYT did not report this story about the NSO spying company.
