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The Times carry water for the deep state and the military-industrial complex again. The New York Times (9/18/17) gave an enormous platform to a hawkish think tank that is funded by the US government and by top weapons corporations, letting it absurdly claim, without any pushback, that the gargantuan US military—by far the largest in the world—has been “underfunded.” On September 18, the Senate voted overwhelmingly (89 to eight) to pass an enormous, record-breaking 0 billion Pentagon bill, giving far-right President Donald Trump even more money for war than he had requested. Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg effectively helped to sell the bill in an extremely sympathetic article, headlined “Senate Passes 0 Billion Pentagon Bill, More Money Than Trump Sought.” Stolberg’s story
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The Times carry water for the deep state and the military-industrial complex again. The New York Times (9/18/17) gave an enormous platform to a hawkish think tank that is funded by the US government and by top weapons corporations, letting it absurdly claim, without any pushback, that the gargantuan US military—by far the largest in the world—has been “underfunded.” On September 18, the Senate voted overwhelmingly (89 to eight) to pass an enormous, record-breaking 0 billion Pentagon bill, giving far-right President Donald Trump even more money for war than he had requested. Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg effectively helped to sell the bill in an extremely sympathetic article, headlined “Senate Passes 0 Billion Pentagon Bill, More Money Than Trump Sought.” Stolberg’s story
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The Times carry water for the deep state and the military-industrial complex again.
The New York Times (9/18/17) gave an enormous platform to a hawkish think tank that is funded by the US government and by top weapons corporations, letting it absurdly claim, without any pushback, that the gargantuan US military—by far the largest in the world—has been “underfunded.”
On September 18, the Senate voted overwhelmingly (89 to eight) to pass an enormous, record-breaking $700 billion Pentagon bill, giving far-right President Donald Trump even more money for war than he had requested.
Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg effectively helped to sell the bill in an extremely sympathetic article, headlined “Senate Passes $700 Billion Pentagon Bill, More Money Than Trump Sought.”
Stolberg’s story also doubled as a kind of puff piece for hyper-hawkish Sen. John McCain, whom it lionized as an intrepid hero boldly taking the lead on the Pentagon legislation.FAIR
NYT Lets Think Tank Funded by Gov’t and Arms Industry Claim Huge US Military Budget Isn’t Huge Enough
Ben Norton