Jon Schwarz

Senior Writer at The Intercept

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Phil Donahue, The New York Times, and the Iraq War | Common Dreams

Aug 24, 2024 | commondreams.org | Jon Schwarz

If I were teaching a class called “How to Slime People in a Subtle, Scuzzy Way in the New York Times,” this paragraph from the Times‘ obituary (8/19/24) of Phil Donahue—written by Clyde Haberman, Maggie’s father—would be part of the curriculum:Even now—more than 20 years after the New York Times was catastrophically wrong on the Iraq War—the paper cannot forgive anyone who was right. 1.
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Aug 24, 2024 | commondreams.org | Jon Schwarz

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NYT Can’t Forgive Donahue for Being Right on Iraq

Aug 23, 2024 | fair.org | Jon Schwarz

If I were teaching a class called “How to Slime People in a Subtle, Scuzzy Way in the New York Times,” this paragraph from the Times‘ obituary (8/19/24) of Phil Donahue—written by Clyde Haberman, Maggie’s father—would be part of the curriculum:In 2002, Mr. Donahue tried a comeback with a nightly talk show on MSNBC. Barely six months in, the program was canceled. He said later that network executives were unhappy with his fervent liberalism and his opposition to the looming war in Iraq.
Jon Schwarz - FAIR

Aug 22, 2024 | fair.org | Jon Schwarz

What’s FAIRFAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation. We work to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints. We expose neglected news stories and defend working journalists when they are muzzled.
Erik Prince Calls for U.S. to Colonize Africa and Latin America

Feb 9, 2024 | theintercept.com | Jon Schwarz

Erik Prince has been many things in his 54 years on Earth: the wealthy heir to an auto supply company; a Navy SEAL; the founder of the mercenary firm Blackwater, which conducted a notorious 2007 massacre in the middle of Baghdad; the brother of Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s secretary of education; a shadow adviser to Trump; and the plaintiff in a lawsuit against The Intercept.
Erik Prince Calls for US to Colonize Africa and Latin America

Feb 9, 2024 | rsn.org | Jon Schwarz

What could possibly go wrong? Erik Prince has been many things in his 54 years on Earth: the wealthy heir to an auto supply company; a Navy SEAL; the founder of the mercenary firm Blackwater, which conducted a notorious 2007 massacre in the middle of Baghdad; the brother of Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s secretary of education; a shadow adviser to Trump; and the plaintiff in a lawsuit against The Intercept.
Thomas Friedman and the Red Lines in Journalism on Israel and Palestine

Feb 7, 2024 | theintercept.com | Jon Schwarz

Many people are unhappy about some recent pensées from New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, headlined “.” Friedman explains that “Iran is to geopolitics what a recently discovered species of parasitoid wasp is to nature.” He informs us that Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq are like caterpillars in which this wasp lays its eggs, and those eggs are the “Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas and Kataib Hezbollah.” This is imperialistic blather straight out of the 19th century, except horribly written —...
Here Are the Laws Plausibly Broken by Israel in Its Raid on a West Bank Hospital

Jan 31, 2024 | theintercept.com | Jon Schwarz

On Wednesday, members of the Israeli military, its border police, and its security service Shin Bet staged a raid on the Ibn Sina hospital in the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. Israeli personnel — all wearing disguises, such as hospital scrubs or a white doctor’s coat, and caught on closed-circuit video — shot and killed three Palestinian men. This likely broke several laws of war, including the prohibition against perfidy and the killing of protected people.
Will The U.S. Block The ICJ On Gaza? It’s Thwarted The Court Before.

Jan 31, 2024 | progressivehub.net | Jon Schwarz

An adverse ICJ ruling on Nicaragua in 1984 shows how the U.S. subverts international law when it chooses. By Jon Schwarz, The InterceptOn Friday, the International Court of Justice — part of the United Nations — issued an interim ruling in the case initiated by South Africa asserting that Israel “is committing genocide in manifest violation of the Genocide Convention.” What happens now?
Les États-Unis vont-ils bloquer la CIJ sur Gaza ? Ils ont déjà fait échouer la Cour (The Intercept)

Jan 30, 2024 | le-blog-sam-la-touch.over-blog.com | Jon Schwarz

CIJ USA Gaza Nicaragua Israël Collaboration Colonialisme Palestine Articles de Sam La Touch Les États-Unis vont-ils bloquer la CIJ sur Gaza ? Ils ont déjà fait échouer la Cour par le passé. Article originel : Will the U.S. Block the ICJ on Gaza? It’s Thwarted the Court Before. An adverse ICJ ruling on Nicaragua in 1984 shows how the U.S. subverts international law when it chooses.