NY Times Compares Trump's 'Enemy of the People' Slam to Stalin, Mao

Clay Waters
February 28th, 2017 12:24 AM
Another result of the Trump administration: It has made die-hard anti-Communists out of the New York Times. After Trump accused fake news purveyors of being an “enemy of the people," the Times talked about the depredations of international communism on its front page Monday, if only to compare Trump to Josef Stalin and Mao Tse-tung.  Andrew Higgins' dispatch was headlined “Phrase With a Venomous…
 

Lies My Textbooks Told Me: Cuban Missiles and Kennedy’s Resolve

Paul Wilson
October 18th, 2012 4:08 PM
With the 50th Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis approaching and new documents surfacing about just how close to World War III the United States and the Soviet Union came in 1962, it’s interesting to look at how the incident is regarded in the media and, especially, how it’s taught as history. The Cuban Missile Crisis is commonly portrayed as a firm display of President John F. Kennedy’s…