Reply #68: Understand that the NYT and others have been CIA-influenced for decades.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

And the corporate managers of the MSM have been reserving the above-the-fold headlines for Tributes to the Virtue Empire for decades.

I suspect that, just as in the CIA, there is leaking of stories that don't support the current regime and are meant to give a heads-up to those in the power elite who might be able to 'clean house' when needed.

Consider:
During the post-Thanksgiving annihilation of Fallujah, NPR ran a radio documentary on...THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING AGAINST THE NAZIS!
The program was called 'Red Runs the Vistula' and sounded exactly like what was happening in Fallujah at the same time.

Not very flattering to the neo-con-men's Operation Oil Occupation.

I suspect that this was stealth programming on the part of some producers at NPR who don't like being Nat'l Petroleum Radio.

"Hmmm...A message from inside the fortune cookie factory..."

Chris Hedges is the most respected war-time correspondent alive today and anything he writes is deadly important. His book 'War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning' is one of the most compelling things I've read in 45 years due to its exploration of the psychology of war which has defined our species for...well, ever. So far.