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Hey, Rick - if you want to start a thread about how bad. . .

. . . Fox News and the Murdoch media are, be my guest - in fact, I'll probably join you in throwing some brickbats!

The trouble with the NYT and the WAPO (and the New Yorker, the LA Times, etc.) in my opinion is that they aren't merely mistake prone (which would be forgivable), but they push a certain point of view which is consistent with the propaganda our security state pumps out. In the 2013 Defense Authorization Act, there was money in the bill set aside to generate propaganda for consumption by American citizens. This usually takes the form of anti-Russian and/or anti-Chinese stories (many of them with no basis in fact) which seek to rile up citizens into accepting the obscene and ever increasing amounts of money set aside for the military industrial complex that Eisenhower was warning us about 60 years ago. (Our military budget is larger than the next ten countries combined, including Russia and China.) The Democratic Party used to be the party of peace, but, ever since Clinton, there's hardly been a difference between the two parties when it comes to foreign policy - the neo-conservatives and the neo-liberals may differ with each other in rhetoric these days, but in foreign policy, there's hardly anything to choose between them.

Finally, I must point out that you've conflated Krav's reply to me and musetap (which is what I replied to when I mentioned "critical thinking") and his reply to you (a few posts down in this thread). I stand by my description of his reply to me as showing critical thinking, where all the sentences are parsed and analyzed for what they actually contain - yes, that's critical thinking.


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