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The New York Times

2026-08-25T20:21:40Z

Fang: Added more on Imperialism and added a Zionism section

{{Infobox company|name=The New York Times|image=New York Times logo.png|founding_date=September 18, 1851|founder=Henry Jarvis Raymond<br>George Jones|industry=[[Bourgeois media]]|ownership=The New York Times Company}}

'''''The New York Times''''' ('''''NYT''''') is a [[United States of America|Statesian]] [[Bourgeoisie|bourgeois]] newspaper. It has historically supported [[United States imperialism|U.S. imperialism]] and [[Far-right politics|far-right]] governments. Before publishing its articles, ''The New York Times'' sends them to the [[Government of the United States of America|U.S. government]] for approval.<ref name=":1">{{News citation|author=[[Ben Norton]]|newspaper=[[The Grayzone]]|title=NY Times Admits It Sends Stories to US Government for Approval Before Publication|date=2019-06-24|url=https://www.globalresearch.ca/ny-times-admits-it-sends-stories-us-government-approval-before-publication/5681831|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210808191326/https://www.globalresearch.ca/ny-times-admits-it-sends-stories-us-government-approval-before-publication/5681831|archive-date=2021-08-08|retrieved=2022-06-23}}</ref>

It is a major mouthpiece for [[United States of America|United States]] [[fascism]] and [[liberalism]]. A recent article published on 2 February 2024 and written by Thomas Friedman (a three-times Pulitzer winner) horrifically dehumanized the Palestinian people, in the mist of the [[Palestine|Palestinian genocide]] and the other peoples of the middle east by comparing them to bugs. Per [[Ben Norton]], "the NY Times is comparing victims of US-Israeli genocide and colonialism to insects. This is the contemporary equivalent of Nazi rhetoric that dehumanized their victims as cockroaches. Except now fascist ideology is so mainstream in the US, NYT columnist Thomas Friedman uses it."<ref>{{Web citation|author=Ben Norton|newspaper=Twitter|title=The NY Times is comparing victims of US-Israeli genocide and colonialism to insects.|date=2024-02-04|url=https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1753941615440429433}}</ref>

== Criticism ==

=== Fascism ===
''The'' ''New York Times'' praised [[Benito Mussolini|Mussolini]] in an article from 1923.<ref>{{News citation|newspaper=The New York Times|title=ITALY TRANSFORMED; MONEY, GEMS, WORK GIVEN TO STATE; Great Wave of Patriotism Re- unites All Classes Under Mussolini.|date=1923-01-01|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1923/01/01/archives/italy-transformed-money-gems-work-given-to-state-great-wave-of.html?searchResultPosition=3}}</ref> Upon [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]'s release from [[Landsberg Prison]] in December 1924, it wrote that Hitler, "'''once''' the demi-god of reactionary extremists," had been "tamed," and he seemed a "sadder and wiser man [...] It was believed he would retire to private life and return to [[Austria]]."<ref>The New York Times (1924).: [https://www.nytimes.com/1924/12/21/archives/hitler-tamed-by-prison-released-on-parole-he-is-expected-to-return.html ''HITLER TAMED BY PRISON. Released on Parole, He Is Expected to Return to Austria''].</ref> In addition, ''The New York Times'' described the [[1936 Summer Olympics]] hosted by [[German Reich (1933–1945)|Nazi Germany]] as "perfect in setting" and "the greatest sports event of all time."<ref>{{Web citation|author=Lee Camp|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=The New York Times Has Been Friendly to Nazis for 80 Years|date=2022-10-14|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-new-york-times-friendly-nazis-80-years/282241/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221014155746/https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-new-york-times-friendly-nazis-80-years/282241/|archive-date=2022-10-14|retrieved=2022-10-14}}</ref>

=== Imperialism ===
''The New York Times'' has supported several right-wing [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] coups, including [[Imperial State of Iran (1925–1979)|Iran]] in 1953, [[Federative Republic of Brazil|Brazil]] in 1964,<ref name=":0" /> [[Republic of Chile|Chile]] in 1973,<ref>{{Web citation|date=2018-12-18|title=NY Times Columnist Ross Douthat Defended Murderous Dictator Pinochet in His Harvard Days|url=https://thegrayzone.com/2018/12/18/ny-times-ross-douthat-pinochet-harvard/|newspaper=[[The Grayzone]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520230600/https://thegrayzone.com/2018/12/18/ny-times-ross-douthat-pinochet-harvard/|archive-date=2022-05-20|retrieved=2022-10-23|author=[[Ben Norton]]}}</ref> [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Venezuela]] in 2002, and [[Plurinational State of Bolivia|Bolivia]] in 2019.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=The New York Times' Long History of Endorsing US-Backed Coups|date=2019-11-27|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/long-history-new-york-times-endorsing-us-backed-coups/263059/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220719124646/https://www.mintpressnews.com/long-history-new-york-times-endorsing-us-backed-coups/263059/|archive-date=2022-07-19|retrieved=2022-10-14}}</ref> It promoted [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization|NATO]]'s bombing of [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2006)|Yugoslavia]] in 1993.<ref>{{News citation|author=Dennis Deconcini|newspaper=The New York Times|title=Bomb the Serbs. Now.|date=1993-05-18|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/18/opinion/bomb-the-serbs-now.html?searchResultPosition=2|retrieved=2022-04-27}}</ref> It also overlooks its own guidelines against bias to support [[Zionism]] and has numerous staffers with personal ties to the [[State of Israel|Zionist occupation]] including family members in the [[Israel Defense Forces|"Israeli" military]].<ref>{{Web citation|author=James North|newspaper=Mondoweiss|title=A new ‘dossier’ reveals extensive pro-Israel bias among reporters, editors and executives at the ‘NYTimes’|date=2025-07-27|url=https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/a-new-dossier-reveals-extensive-pro-israel-bias-among-reporters-editors-and-executives-at-the-nytimes/|retrieved=2025-08-06}}</ref> The ''NYT'' was arguing for a return to [[colonialism]] in 1993, less than two years after the [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991)|Soviet Union]] and [[Counterrevolutions of 1989|many of its socialist allies]], which aided resistance against colonialism, [[Overthrow of the Soviet Union|had been overthrown]].<ref>{{Web citation|author=Paul Johnson|newspaper=The New York Times Magazine|title=Colonialism's Back -- and Not a Moment Too Soon|date=1993-04-18|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/18/magazine/colonialisms-back-and-not-a-moment-too-soon.html|archive-url=https://archive.is/A8ZD4|archive-date=2022-01-27|retrieved=2025-09-04}}</ref> ''The New York Times'' has omitted US sabotage of Cuba to justify further hostile actions towards Cuba. Mauricio de Miranda Parrondo, a New York Times economist claimed, "the [Cuban] leadership prioritizes political control over the needs of the population. The Cuban economy has suffered greatly for it. The country is no longer capable of producing the basic goods it needs; today it imports most of the food it consumes, despite the fertility of its lands and its long agricultural tradition". <ref>{{Web citation|author=Gregory Shupak|newspaper=Fair.org|title=Press Opinion Treats US Devastation of Cuba as Reason for More Devastation|date=2026-08-06|url=https://fair.org/home/press-opinion-treats-us-devastation-of-cuba-as-reason-for-more-devastation/|quote=In the New York Times (3/1/26), economist Mauricio de Miranda Parrondo asserted that

the [Cuban] leadership prioritizes political control over the needs of the population. The Cuban economy has suffered greatly for it. The country is no longer capable of producing the basic goods it needs; today it imports most of the food it consumes, despite the fertility of its lands and its long agricultural tradition.}}</ref>

=== Zionism ===
''The New York Times'' has been and continues to push Zionism and cover for Zionist including settler violence and genocide. On settler violence, ''The New York Times'' , claimed " Violent attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians in the West Bank have intensified since the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, that set off the war in Gaza". <ref>{{Web citation|author=Lynsey Chutel|newspaper=The New York Times|title=6 Countries Announce Sanctions Targeting Israeli Settler Networks|date=2026-06-09|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/world/middleeast/west-bank-israeli-settlers-sanction.html|quote=Violent attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians in the West Bank have intensified since the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, that set off the war in Gaza.}}</ref> The article counties on government statements rather that give any further information on settler violence.

=== Racism ===
In a 2019 article, [[climate change]] denier Bret Stephens cited [[White nationalism|white nationalist]] and [[Eugenics|eugenicist]] Henry Harpending, who claimed that [[Judaism|Jews]] have higher IQs because of their genes.<ref>{{Web citation|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=New York Times Cites White Nationalist Eugenicist in Piece Titled “the Secrets of Jewish Genius”|date=2019-12-30|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/new-york-times-bret-stephens-jewish-eugenicist/263788/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210907172405/https://www.mintpressnews.com/new-york-times-bret-stephens-jewish-eugenicist/263788/|archive-date=2021-09-07|retrieved=2022-10-14}}</ref>

In a 2025 article attempting to make [[Zohran Mamdani]] look bad, ''The New York Times'' cited the scientific racist Jordan "Crémieux" Lasker and attempted to obscure his racism from readers.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Benjamin Ryan, Nicholas Fandos and Dana Rubinstein|newspaper=The New York Times|title=Mamdani Identified as Asian and African American on College Application|date=2025-07-03|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/nyregion/mamdani-columbia-black-application.html|archive-date=2025-07-21|archive-url=https://archive.ph/20250721143805/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/nyregion/mamdani-columbia-black-application.html}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Rebecca Watson|newspaper=Skepchick|title=How a Nazi Helped the New York Times Smear Zohran Mamdani|date=2025-07-29|url=https://skepchick.org/2025/07/how-a-nazi-helped-the-new-york-times-smear-zohran-mamdani/}}</ref>

=== Transphobia ===
''The New York Times'' has pushed anti-trans bigotry from the top of the news organization including shut downs of internal discussion in regards to concerns of increasing conservative trans coverage and reporting. <ref>{{Web citation|author=David Forbes|newspaper=Trans News Network|title='A Directive From Above': Former NYT Editor Lays Out How The Paper Pushes Anti-Trans Bigotry|date=2026-01-01|url=https://transnews.network/p/a-directive-from-above-former-nyt-editor-lays-out-how-the-paper-pushes-anti-trans-bigotry}}</ref>

== References ==
<references />
[[Category:Bourgeois media]]
[[Category:Imperialist propaganda]]
[[Category:Newspapers based in the United States]]

File:Law-on-Promoting-Ethnic-Unity-and-Progress-2026.03-Draft.pdf

2026-07-28T01:07:42Z

Fang: Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress text from the NPC Observer

== Summary ==
Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress text from the NPC Observer

Belt and Road Initiative

2026-07-28T01:00:31Z

Fang: Added Fair article covering western news framing of China with a minor edit to the sentence to included it .

[[File:BRI agreements.png|alt=All countries that either attended a BRI summit (yellow) or who signed cooperation documents related to the BRI (red)|thumb|Countries currently in the Belt and Road Initiative (red) and countries which attended a BRI summit (yellow)]]
The '''Belt and Road Initiative''' ('''BRI''') is a global infrastructure development strategy adopted by the [[China#Governance|Chinese government]] in 2013 to invest in nearly 70 countries and international organizations. The BRI was initially proposed by China in [[Kazakhstan]].<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Xinhua|title=Officials, experts say deepened China-Central Asia cooperation on Belt and Road benefits region, world|date=2023-05-18|url=https://english.news.cn/20230518/864fd60c483c49b0bf4386affd74ae1d/c.html|retrieved=2023-06-28}}</ref> It is considered a centerpiece of [[Xi Jinping]]'s foreign policy.<ref>{{News citation|title=President Xi proposes Silk Road economic belt|url=https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013xivisitcenterasia/2013-09/07/content_16951811.htm}}</ref>

The BRI is one of the many factors which is leading to [[de-dollarization]]<ref>https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2018/04/09/the-de-dollarization-in-china/</ref> the decline of the influence of the [[United States imperialism|US empire]],<ref>{{News citation|journalist=[[Danny Haiphong]]|title=U.S. imperial Decline and the Belt and Road Initiative: The Most Important Global Struggle of the Century|url=https://blackagendareport.com/us-imperial-decline-and-belt-and-road-initiative-most-important-global-struggle-century|newspaper=[[Black Agenda Report]]}}</ref> and enhanced economic growth of [[Non-Aligned Movement|non-aligned countries]].<ref>{{News citation|title=China’s BRI: The REAL Story! Symbol of its Inevitable Rise? With Hussein Askary!|url=https://youtu.be/OGGItLIKL8g}}</ref> It has also furthered the strength and helps to carry out what was established in the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This has lead to over 40 countries partaking in the BRI's environmentally friendly development.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Xinhua|title=(CPC Congress) Official hails positive progress in building green Belt and Road|date=2022-10-21|url=https://english.news.cn/20221021/3510edb82fc64407bd423c5ad72a8080/c.html|retrieved=2023-06-28}}</ref>

In 2015, [[Hungary]] became the first European country to be a part of the BRI. In 2017, China and Hungary began working on the BRI flagship project of constructing the Hungary-Serbia railway.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Wang Wenwen|newspaper=Global Times|title=China, Hungary elevate ties during Xi’s visit in Budapest|date=2024-05-10|url=https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202405/1312013.shtml|retrieved=2024-05-16}}</ref>

In 2021, [[Republic of Cuba|Cuba]] has joined the BRI project for the purpose of expanding its telecommunications and green energy industries.<ref>{{News citation|journalist=|date=2021-10-18|title=Cuba Formally Joins China's Belt and Road Energy Partnership|url=https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Cuba-Formally-Joins-Chinas-Belt-and-Road-Energy-Partnership-20211018-0016.html|newspaper=[[TeleSUR]]|archive-url=|archive-date=|retrieved=}}</ref> Syria has also joined.<ref>{{News citation|date=2022-12-01|title=Syria Officially Joins China's Belt and Road, Seeking Lifeline to Defy U.S. Sanctions|url=https://www.newsweek.com/syria-officially-joins-chinas-belt-road-seeking-lifeline-defy-us-sanctions-1668849}}</ref> In February 2022, [[Argentine Republic|Argentina]] joined the BRI.<ref>{{News citation|date=2022-02-06|title=Argentina officially joins BRI in major boost for China-Latin America cooperation|url=https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202202/1251555.shtml|newspaper=Global Times|retrieved=2022-02-08}}</ref><ref>{{News citation|journalist=[[Benjamin Norton]]|date=2022-02-12|title=Trapped in IMF debt, Argentina turns to Russia and joins China's Belt & Road|url=https://youtu.be/NZzATH_759s|newspaper=[[Multipolarista]]}}</ref> Total, this has lead the BRI to have three-fourths of nations in the world participating in it.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Xinhua|title=Belt and Road Initiative participated by three-fourths of world's countries: FM|date=2023-03-07|url=https://english.news.cn/20230307/bb6a8edabb984f35bcbf2930e8649ad8/c.html|retrieved=2023-06-28}}</ref> In total, this has caused 151 countries to sign agreements with China for their mutual benefit.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|newspaper=Xinhua|title=Belt and Road Initiative promotes economic growth, improves people's lives: spokesperson|date=2023-03-03|url=https://english.news.cn/20230303/42d3cefc3f884db4a5d2833ca9e89141/c.html|retrieved=2023-06-28}}</ref>

The participating countries have extracted great benefit from being members in the BRI.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Xinhua|title=Belt and Road Initiative a high-quality public good: Chinese FM|date=2023-03-07|url=https://english.news.cn/20230307/445535cfeeb74f098e93ae9407a798a6/c.html|retrieved=2023-06-28}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Xinhua|title=Chinese political advisors discuss people-to-people connectivity along Belt and Road|date=2022-11-25|url=https://english.news.cn/20221125/8441fd86e8f94a2eb9d57b3def178444/c.html|retrieved=2023-06-28}}</ref> It has created 420,000 jobs and lifted 40 million people out of poverty.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Xinhua|title=Belt and Road Initiative creates 420,000 jobs for participant countries: FM|date=2023-03-07|url=https://english.news.cn/20230307/83163d3aca13492c9ffdfd7855c8fbbd/c.html|retrieved=2023-06-28}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Xinhua|title=Belt and Road Initiative a key platform for new era of international cooperation: Thai ambassador|date=2023-03-08|url=https://english.news.cn/20230308/fc38b17e42aa43628f51b35af26fbca7/c.html|retrieved=2023-06-28}}</ref> The BRI has also lead to deeper ties between China and other participating countries.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Xinhua|title=China, Belt and Road countries enjoy closer trade ties|date=2023-03-02|url=https://english.news.cn/20230302/3b7a7001402c4b46a40ff4fd0ae7f25e/c.html|retrieved=2023-06-28}}</ref>

In total, China has developed over 200 contacts with 152 countries as part of the BRI.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Xinhua|title=BRI benefits partner nations with vast opportunities|date=2023-11-20|url=https://english.news.cn/20231120/80a7cb0451b744a884775b19ad1df8ae/c.html|retrieved=2023-11-20}}</ref>

Trade between China and BRI member countries reached 21 trillion USD between 2013 and October 2023. Direct Chinese investments in BRI member countries reached 270 billion USD during the time period.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=The State Council of the People’s Republic of China|title=China releases document on vision, actions for Belt and Road cooperation in next decade|date=2023-11-24|url=https://english.www.gov.cn/news/202311/24/content_WS65600f67c6d0868f4e8e1936.html|retrieved=2023-12-4}}</ref>

==Reactions==
The BRI has been demonized by Western [[bourgeois media]] on the basis that it's a [[Chinese_debt-trap_myth|"debt trap"]]<ref>{{News citation|title=China's debt-trap diplomacy|url=https://thehill.com/opinion/international/551337-chinas-debt-trap-diplomacy|newspaper=The Hill}}</ref> , an example of so-called "Chinese imperialism", or outright used to claim Western imperialism is a thing of the past with China framed as having imperial ambitions <ref>{{Web citation|author=Gregory Shupak|newspaper=Fair|title=Western Media Accuse China of Wanting to Do What US Does to Other Countries|date=2022-03-02|url=https://fair.org/home/western-media-accuse-china-of-wanting-to-do-what-us-does-to-other-countries/}}</ref>, but these claims serve only propaganda purposes and are not founded in evidence.<ref>{{News citation|title=Debunking the Myth of ‘Debt-trap Diplomacy’|url=https://www.chathamhouse.org/2020/08/debunking-myth-debt-trap-diplomacy|newspaper=Chatham House}}</ref><ref>{{News citation|title=The Chinese 'Debt Trap' Is a Myth|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/02/china-debt-trap-diplomacy/617953/|newspaper=The Atlantic}}</ref><ref>{{News citation|title=Catagorically Debunking the Claim that China is Imperialist|url=https://orinocotribune.com/catagorically-debunking-the-claim-that-china-is-imperialist/}}</ref> Guo Weimin, the spokesman for the initial meeting of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, called such claims, "noises" and rejected them.<ref name=":0" />

In response to concerns, the Communist Party of China has sought to improve reporting standards and transparency with their BRI projects so as to increase trust with member countries.<ref>{{News citation|title=China’s response to Belt and Road backlash|url=https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2018/12/15/chinas-response-to-belt-and-road-backlash/}}</ref>

Anti-imperialist journalist Richard Medhurst has reported that China's BRI project is helping to rebuild the economies that have been destroyed by Western wars and sanctions.<ref>{{News citation|date=2022-01-25|title=Syria Officially Joins China's Belt and Road Initiative {{!}} BRI|url=https://youtu.be/b8bFjhiwvnw}}</ref>

==References==

<references />
[[Category:Belt and Road Initiative]]
[[Category:Pages to be protected]]

British Broadcasting Corporation

2026-06-29T22:04:40Z

Fang: Added Zionism as apart of the BBC controversies

[[File:BBC logo.png|thumb|Logo]]
The '''British Broadcasting Corporation''' ('''BBC''') is a [[United Kingdom|British]] state media outlet.<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/aboutbbcnews/spl/hi/history/html/default.stm</ref> British intelligence agencies such as [[MI5]] investigate the majority of BBC staff to prevent [[Left-wing politics|leftists]] or [[Anti-imperialism|anti-imperialists]] from entering the BBC.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=The BBC-to-NATO Pipeline: How the British State Broadcaster Serves the Powerful|date=2022-10-06|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/bbc-nato-pipeline-british-state-broadcaster-serves-powerful/282156/|retrieved=2022-10-06}}</ref> Considering Britain's role in global [[capitalism]] and [[imperialism]], their public broadcast service tends to support imperial wars and demonize the anti-colonial struggles of the periphery.

The BBC tends to, according to conservative commentators, have a "[[Liberalism|liberal]]" and "center-left" bias,<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/oct/10/bbc-review-liberal-bias</ref> much in the same way that [[Fox News Channel|Fox]] viewers would describe America's public broadcasting service, [[PBS]], even though its former head of political programming, Robbie Gibb, was a supporter of the [[Conservative and Unionist Party|Conservative Party]].<ref name=":0" /> However, when it comes to questions of imperial wars and [[anti-communism]], the "liberal media" in the Western world tends to closely align with their corresponding right-wing media outlets.

== Controversies ==

=== Disinformation ===
The BBC has a documented history of spreading pro-[[Western]] propaganda and disinformation.

In a 2021 video depicting the recovery of Wuhan from the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], the BBC deliberately edited footage from the city with a color filter, giving it a grayish and smog-like appearance. The use of the "underworld filter" resulted in widespread ridicule from citizens online.<ref name=":2">{{Web citation|author=Fan Anqi, Cui Fandi|newspaper=Global Times|title=BBC sparks uproar in China for 'underworld filter' on Wuhan video|date=2021-02-17|url=https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202102/1215710.shtml|retrieved=2026-04-12}}</ref>

In another piece from the same year, the BBC edited footage from foreign vloggers in China using the same "underworld filter" again. British vlogger Jason Lightfoot made a response video presenting his original footage and the edited version from the BBC side-by-side. Lightfoot mocked the BBC's lack of journalistic integrity, noting its involvement in spreading false claims about weapons of mass destruction prior to the [[2003 Invasion of Iraq]].<ref>{{Video citation|url=https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1C54y1n7wR/?spm_id_from=333.1387.upload.video_card.click|channel=Mr有意思 (Jason Lightfoot)|title=英国博主：我再次登上英国主流媒体！这次是毫无底线的BBC新闻|date=2021-07-17}}</ref>

The dissemination of disinformation by the BBC, as well as the British government ban on [[CGTN]], contributed to [[People's Republic of China|China]]'s decision to ban the BBC.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{News citation|author=Maitreya Bhakal|newspaper=[[Mango Press]]|title=Why China Finally Banned the BBC, a Racist British Propaganda Outlet|date=2021-09-03|url=https://www.mango-press.com/why-china-finally-banned-the-bbc-a-racist-british-propaganda-outlet/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220604203011/https://www.mango-press.com/why-china-finally-banned-the-bbc-a-racist-british-propaganda-outlet/|archive-date=2022-06-04|retrieved=2022-06-27}}</ref>

=== NATO connections ===
BBC producer Victoria Cook was funded by [[NATO]] from 2007 to 2008. Former BBC correspondents Oana Lungescu and Mark Laity and producer David McGee left the BBC to work for NATO. BBC information security specialist Terence Sach was previously a security analyst for the British military. Technical consultant Bojan Lazic worked as a psychological operations specialist for NATO during the bombing of [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2006)|Yugoslavia]].<ref name=":0" />

=== Right-wing Bias ===
In 2023, BBC refused to broadcast an episode of a nature documentary featuring Sir David Attenborough, fearing a "right-wing backlash" over "its themes of the destruction of nature”.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Helena Horton|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|title=BBC will not broadcast Attenborough episode over fear of ‘rightwing backlash’|date=2023-03-11|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/10/david-attenborough-bbc-wild-isles-episode-rightwing-backlash-fears|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230311120518/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/10/david-attenborough-bbc-wild-isles-episode-rightwing-backlash-fears|archive-date=2023-03-11|retrieved=2023-03-11|quote=The BBC has decided not to broadcast an episode of Sir David Attenborough’s flagship new series on British wildlife because of fears its themes of the destruction of nature would risk a backlash from Tory politicians and the rightwing press, the Guardian has been told.}}</ref>

=== Transphobia ===
In October 2021, the BBC published an article titled "We're being pressured into sex by some trans women", which argues that lesbian women are being "pressured and coerced into accepting trans women as partners" and "shunned and even threatened for speaking out".<ref name=":1">{{Web citation|author=Caroline Lowbridge|newspaper=[[BBC]]|title="The lesbians who feel pressured to have sex and relationships with trans women"|date=2021-10-26|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-57853385|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026084108/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-57853385|archive-date=2021-10-26|retrieved=2023-12-02}}</ref> The article drew heavy criticism for its bad methodology and blatant [[transphobia]]. The BBC also gave a platform to [[Bev Jackson]] (a co-founder of the transphobic hate group the [[LGB Alliance]]) and [[Lily Cade]] (an actress, adult film director, and serial rapist) who, after the article's publication, called for the lynching of several high-profile trans women. Cade's contribution to the article has since been deleted, though the rest of the article is still up at the time of writing.<ref name=":1" />

=== Zionism ===
On August 12, 2025, the BBC broadcast covering a target IDF attack of journalist asked "There's the question of proportionality. Is it justified to kill five journalists when you were only targeting one?" .<ref>{{Web citation|author=@Jonathan_K_Cook|title=More obscene "journalism" from BBC News. This is how it reports Israel murdering five journalists in Gaza: "There's the question of proportionality. Is it justified to kill five journalists when you were only targeting one?"|date=2025-9-12|url=https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1955061697779053044|archive-url=https://archive.ph/2FK8W}}</ref>

== References ==
<references />
[[Category:State media]]
[[Category:Imperialist propaganda]]
[[Category:Bourgeois media]]

Racism

2026-06-26T20:55:27Z

Fang: Minor edit for typo. Romania now Roma

{{Message box/Stub}}{{Message box/ideologicalconflict}}[[File:Race mixing is communism.png|thumb|Signs in the [[United States of America|United States]] in 1957 saying "Race Mixing is [[Communism]]"]]
''Note: This page is incomplete and will receive more information.''

=== Basic overview ===
Racism both a social construct and a from of bigotry based on [[race]] that during mercantile capitalism was development as a justification for slave labor of those being colonized. As such, it is deeply intertwined with capitalism , its institutions, and its ideologies such as [[Liberalism]] ,[[Conservatism]] and [[fascism]] . Racism cannot not limited to an individual attitude or perception but rather understood in its relation to labor, its culture ( white supremacy culture) , and it systematic character (media, education, global trade, etc. ).

=== Racialization ===
A common misconception is the notion that racism always existed by referring to tribalism which ignores the key component of race as a concept. In order to have a race, on must be racialized by other party typically for the purpose of justifying the oppressive and exploitation down to the party being racialized.

A look at history demonstrates peoples having tensions, conflicts, and exploiting fellow people but not racializing being used to do so. For example, the " barbarians" Greeks referred to where had various backgrounds, cultures, and color. These peoples sought labor and or was apart of the slave labor force. As Kostas Vlassopoulos noted " In the ancient world, the processes of violent slave-making could potentially turn anybody into a slave, irrespective of ethnicity, wealth, status and gender"''.''<ref>{{Citation|last=Vlassopoulos|first=Kostas|author=Kostas Vlassopoulos|year=2022|title=Enslaved Persons and Their Multiple Identities in Ancient Societies|title-url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/365667444_Enslaved_Persons_and_Their_Multiple_Identities_in_Ancient_Societies|page=10|quote=In the ancient world, the processes of violent slave-making could potentially turn anybody into a slave, irrespective of ethnicity, wealth, status and gender.|isbn=9783868934304|doi=10.53179/9783868934304}}</ref> "We begin to see racialization appear in Europe with groups such as the Irish and Roma. As mercantile capitalism began to emerge, this racialization develop into racism to justify [[colonialism]], [[slavery]], [[genocide]], and the oppression of indigenous people using educational and religious institutions.

=== Slavery and under development and colonialism ===
Pre-colonial slavery in Africa and the Arab slave trade had a different and impact on the populations made slaves that that of European chattel slavery. People where reduced to slaves in times of war, as punishment for crimes, and to pay of debts thereby being primarily a form of servitude where on was still considered a human despite the diffrent legal status and limitations. It was the European introduction of race that created the chattel slavery to which persons where completely strip of their humanity to a be property extending to children with race being the justification for doing so rather than a repayment or punishment.

Walter Rodney explains that , "The slave trade on the Indian Ocean has been called the " East African Slave Trade" and the "Arab Slave Trade" for so long that it hides the extent to which it was also a European Slave Trade''."'' <ref>{{Citation|last=Rodney|first=Walter|author=Walter Rodney|year=1981|title=How Europe Undeveloped Africa|chapter=Chapter IV Europe and the Roots of African Underdevelopment - To 1885|page=97|quote=The slave trade on the Indian Ocean has been called the " East African Slave Trade" and the "Arab Slave Trade" for so long that it hides the extent to which it was also a European Slave Trade.|anna=https://annas-archive.gl/md5/ff7fa10d4aaccd98c0195172f164e7f2}}</ref>

== See also ==
*[[Race]]
*[[Nazism]]
*[[Genocide]]

*[[Apartheid]]

== References ==
[[Category:Racism]]
[[Category:Stubs]]
[[Category:Capitalism]]
<references />

The New York Times

2026-06-26T19:00:23Z

Fang: Added section on the New York Times anti trans bigotry with sourcing and added heading for the refernences

{{Infobox company|name=The New York Times|image=New York Times logo.png|founding_date=September 18, 1851|founder=Henry Jarvis Raymond<br>George Jones|industry=[[Bourgeois media]]|ownership=The New York Times Company}}

'''''The New York Times''''' ('''''NYT''''') is a [[United States of America|Statesian]] [[Bourgeoisie|bourgeois]] newspaper. It has historically supported [[United States imperialism|U.S. imperialism]] and [[Far-right politics|far-right]] governments. Before publishing its articles, ''The New York Times'' sends them to the [[Government of the United States of America|U.S. government]] for approval.<ref name=":1">{{News citation|author=[[Ben Norton]]|newspaper=[[The Grayzone]]|title=NY Times Admits It Sends Stories to US Government for Approval Before Publication|date=2019-06-24|url=https://www.globalresearch.ca/ny-times-admits-it-sends-stories-us-government-approval-before-publication/5681831|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210808191326/https://www.globalresearch.ca/ny-times-admits-it-sends-stories-us-government-approval-before-publication/5681831|archive-date=2021-08-08|retrieved=2022-06-23}}</ref>

It is a major mouthpiece for [[United States of America|United States]] [[fascism]] and [[liberalism]]. A recent article published on 2 February 2024 and written by Thomas Friedman (a three-times Pulitzer winner) horrifically dehumanized the Palestinian people, in the mist of the [[Palestine|Palestinian genocide]] and the other peoples of the middle east by comparing them to bugs. Per [[Ben Norton]], "the NY Times is comparing victims of US-Israeli genocide and colonialism to insects. This is the contemporary equivalent of Nazi rhetoric that dehumanized their victims as cockroaches. Except now fascist ideology is so mainstream in the US, NYT columnist Thomas Friedman uses it."<ref>{{Web citation|author=Ben Norton|newspaper=Twitter|title=The NY Times is comparing victims of US-Israeli genocide and colonialism to insects.|date=2024-02-04|url=https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1753941615440429433}}</ref>

== Criticism ==

=== Fascism ===
''The'' ''New York Times'' praised [[Benito Mussolini|Mussolini]] in an article from 1923.<ref>{{News citation|newspaper=The New York Times|title=ITALY TRANSFORMED; MONEY, GEMS, WORK GIVEN TO STATE; Great Wave of Patriotism Re- unites All Classes Under Mussolini.|date=1923-01-01|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1923/01/01/archives/italy-transformed-money-gems-work-given-to-state-great-wave-of.html?searchResultPosition=3}}</ref> Upon [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]'s release from [[Landsberg Prison]] in December 1924, it wrote that Hitler, "'''once''' the demi-god of reactionary extremists," had been "tamed," and he seemed a "sadder and wiser man [...] It was believed he would retire to private life and return to [[Austria]]."<ref>The New York Times (1924).: [https://www.nytimes.com/1924/12/21/archives/hitler-tamed-by-prison-released-on-parole-he-is-expected-to-return.html ''HITLER TAMED BY PRISON. Released on Parole, He Is Expected to Return to Austria''].</ref> In addition, ''The New York Times'' described the [[1936 Summer Olympics]] hosted by [[German Reich (1933–1945)|Nazi Germany]] as "perfect in setting" and "the greatest sports event of all time."<ref>{{Web citation|author=Lee Camp|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=The New York Times Has Been Friendly to Nazis for 80 Years|date=2022-10-14|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-new-york-times-friendly-nazis-80-years/282241/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221014155746/https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-new-york-times-friendly-nazis-80-years/282241/|archive-date=2022-10-14|retrieved=2022-10-14}}</ref>

=== Imperialism ===
''The New York Times'' has supported several right-wing [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] coups, including [[Imperial State of Iran (1925–1979)|Iran]] in 1953, [[Federative Republic of Brazil|Brazil]] in 1964,<ref name=":0" /> [[Republic of Chile|Chile]] in 1973,<ref>{{Web citation|date=2018-12-18|title=NY Times Columnist Ross Douthat Defended Murderous Dictator Pinochet in His Harvard Days|url=https://thegrayzone.com/2018/12/18/ny-times-ross-douthat-pinochet-harvard/|newspaper=[[The Grayzone]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520230600/https://thegrayzone.com/2018/12/18/ny-times-ross-douthat-pinochet-harvard/|archive-date=2022-05-20|retrieved=2022-10-23|author=[[Ben Norton]]}}</ref> [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Venezuela]] in 2002, and [[Plurinational State of Bolivia|Bolivia]] in 2019.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=The New York Times' Long History of Endorsing US-Backed Coups|date=2019-11-27|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/long-history-new-york-times-endorsing-us-backed-coups/263059/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220719124646/https://www.mintpressnews.com/long-history-new-york-times-endorsing-us-backed-coups/263059/|archive-date=2022-07-19|retrieved=2022-10-14}}</ref> It promoted [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization|NATO]]'s bombing of [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2006)|Yugoslavia]] in 1993.<ref>{{News citation|author=Dennis Deconcini|newspaper=The New York Times|title=Bomb the Serbs. Now.|date=1993-05-18|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/18/opinion/bomb-the-serbs-now.html?searchResultPosition=2|retrieved=2022-04-27}}</ref> It also overlooks its own guidelines against bias to support [[Zionism]] and has numerous staffers with personal ties to the [[State of Israel|Zionist occupation]] including family members in the [[Israel Defense Forces|"Israeli" military]].<ref>{{Web citation|author=James North|newspaper=Mondoweiss|title=A new ‘dossier’ reveals extensive pro-Israel bias among reporters, editors and executives at the ‘NYTimes’|date=2025-07-27|url=https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/a-new-dossier-reveals-extensive-pro-israel-bias-among-reporters-editors-and-executives-at-the-nytimes/|retrieved=2025-08-06}}</ref> The ''NYT'' was arguing for a return to [[colonialism]] in 1993, less than two years after the [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991)|Soviet Union]] and [[Counterrevolutions of 1989|many of its socialist allies]], which aided resistance against colonialism, [[Overthrow of the Soviet Union|had been overthrown]].<ref>{{Web citation|author=Paul Johnson|newspaper=The New York Times Magazine|title=Colonialism's Back -- and Not a Moment Too Soon|date=1993-04-18|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/18/magazine/colonialisms-back-and-not-a-moment-too-soon.html|archive-url=https://archive.is/A8ZD4|archive-date=2022-01-27|retrieved=2025-09-04}}</ref>

=== Racism ===
In a 2019 article, [[climate change]] denier Bret Stephens cited [[White nationalism|white nationalist]] and [[Eugenics|eugenicist]] Henry Harpending, who claimed that [[Judaism|Jews]] have higher IQs because of their genes.<ref>{{Web citation|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=New York Times Cites White Nationalist Eugenicist in Piece Titled “the Secrets of Jewish Genius”|date=2019-12-30|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/new-york-times-bret-stephens-jewish-eugenicist/263788/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210907172405/https://www.mintpressnews.com/new-york-times-bret-stephens-jewish-eugenicist/263788/|archive-date=2021-09-07|retrieved=2022-10-14}}</ref>

In a 2025 article attempting to make [[Zohran Mamdani]] look bad, ''The New York Times'' cited the scientific racist Jordan "Crémieux" Lasker and attempted to obscure his racism from readers.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Benjamin Ryan, Nicholas Fandos and Dana Rubinstein|newspaper=The New York Times|title=Mamdani Identified as Asian and African American on College Application|date=2025-07-03|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/nyregion/mamdani-columbia-black-application.html|archive-date=2025-07-21|archive-url=https://archive.ph/20250721143805/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/nyregion/mamdani-columbia-black-application.html}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Rebecca Watson|newspaper=Skepchick|title=How a Nazi Helped the New York Times Smear Zohran Mamdani|date=2025-07-29|url=https://skepchick.org/2025/07/how-a-nazi-helped-the-new-york-times-smear-zohran-mamdani/}}</ref>

=== Transphobia ===
''The New York Times'' has pushed anti-trans bigotry from the top of the news organization including shut downs of internal discussion in regards to concerns of increasing conservative trans coverage and reporting. <ref>{{Web citation|author=David Forbes|newspaper=Trans News Network|title='A Directive From Above': Former NYT Editor Lays Out How The Paper Pushes Anti-Trans Bigotry|date=2026-01-01|url=https://transnews.network/p/a-directive-from-above-former-nyt-editor-lays-out-how-the-paper-pushes-anti-trans-bigotry}}</ref>

=== References ===
<references />
[[Category:Bourgeois media]]
[[Category:Imperialist propaganda]]
[[Category:Newspapers based in the United States]]

Racism

2026-06-26T04:21:07Z

Fang: This is a major change to the page overall to focus on the historical development of racism in relation to capitalism and its relation to power. Current it is incomplete but given the subject matter it will take more time to add all the subject matt

{{Message box/Stub}}{{Message box/ideologicalconflict}}[[File:Race mixing is communism.png|thumb|Signs in the [[United States of America|United States]] in 1957 saying "Race Mixing is [[Communism]]"]]
''Note: This page is incomplete and will receive more information.''

=== Basic Overview ===
Racism both a social construct and a from of bigotry based on [[race]] that during mercantile capitalism was development as a justification for slave labor of those being colonized. As such, it is deeply intertwined with capitalism , its institutions, and its ideologies such as [[Liberalism]] ,[[Conservatism]] and [[fascism]] . Racism cannot not limited to an individual attitude or perception but rather understood in its relation to labor, its culture ( white supremacy culture) , and it systematic character (media, education, global trade, etc. ).

=== Racialization ===
A common misconception is the notion that racism always existed by referring to tribalism which ignores the key component of race as a concept. In order to have a race, on must be racialized by other party typically for the purpose of justifying the oppressive and exploitation down to the party being racialized.

A look at history demonstrates peoples having tensions, conflicts, and exploiting fellow people but not racializing being used to do so. For example, the " barbarians" Greeks referred to where had various backgrounds, cultures, and color. These peoples sought labor and or was apart of the slave labor force. As Kostas Vlassopoulos noted " In the ancient world, the processes of violent slave-making could potentially turn anybody into a slave, irrespective of ethnicity, wealth, status and gender"''.''<ref>{{Citation|last=Vlassopoulos|first=Kostas|author=Kostas Vlassopoulos|year=2022|title=Enslaved Persons and Their Multiple Identities in Ancient Societies|title-url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/365667444_Enslaved_Persons_and_Their_Multiple_Identities_in_Ancient_Societies|page=10|quote=In the ancient world, the
processes of violent slave-making could potentially turn anybody into
a slave, irrespective of ethnicity, wealth, status and gender.|isbn=9783868934304|doi=10.53179/9783868934304}}</ref> "We begin to see racialization appear in Europe with groups such as the Irish and Romania. As mercantile capitalism began to emerge, this racialization develop into racism to justify [[colonialism]], [[slavery]], [[genocide]], and the oppression of indigenous people using educational and religious institutions.

=== Slavery and Under development and Colonialism ===
Pre-colonial slavery in Africa and the Arab slave trade had a different and impact on the populations made slaves that that of European chattel slavery. People where reduced to slaves in times of war, as punishment for crimes, and to pay of debts thereby being primarily a form of servitude where on was still considered a human despite the diffrent legal status and limitations. It was the European introduction of race that created the chattel slavery to which persons where completely strip of their humanity to a be property extending to children with race being the justification for doing so rather than a repayment or punishment.

Walter Rodney explains that , "The slave trade on the Indian Ocean has been called the " East African Slave Trade" and the "Arab Slave Trade" for so long that it hides the extent to which it was also a European Slave Trade''."'' <ref>{{Citation|last=Rodney|first=Walter|author=Walter Rodney|year=1981|title=How Europe Undeveloped Africa|chapter=Chapter IV Europe and the Roots of African Underdevelopment - To 1885|page=97|quote=The slave trade on the Indian Ocean has been called the " East African Slave Trade" and the "Arab Slave Trade" for so long that it hides the extent to which it was also a European Slave Trade.|anna=https://annas-archive.gl/md5/ff7fa10d4aaccd98c0195172f164e7f2}}</ref>

== See also ==
*[[Race]]
*[[Nazism]]
<li>[[Genocide]]</li>
*[[Apartheid]]

== References ==
[[Category:Racism]]
[[Category:Stubs]]
[[Category:Capitalism]]
<references />