[Peace-discuss] Amanda Taub, NYT "interpreter"

[David Green]

AmandaTaub, a product of Uni High, has been given the “interpreter” title at the NYT,with unfortunate results for truthfulness:

NYTarticle by Amanda Taub

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/11/world/europe/europe-politics-far-right.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fworld&action=click&contentCollection=world&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront

DeanBaker’s comment:

OneWay to Protect Democracy Is to Stop Pushing Policies that Redistribute IncomeUpward 

Published:12 February 2018 

Thatone is apparently not on the agenda, at least according to Amanda Taub's NYT"The Interpreter" piece. The piece notesthe declining support for center right and center left parties in most westerndemocracies. While it notes that people feel unrepresented by these parties, itnever states the obvious, these parties have consistently supported monetary,fiscal, trade, and intellectual property policies that redistribute anever-larger share of income to people like Bill Gates and Robert Rubin.

Itshould not be surprising that most of the public is not enthralled with thisoutcome and the parties that promote it. And yes, there are alternatives, as Ipoint out in my (free) book, Rigged: How Globalization andthe Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer.

http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/one-way-to-protect-democracy-is-to-stop-pushing-policies-that-redistribute-income-upward

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/11/world/europe/europe-politics-far-right.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fworld&action=click&contentCollection=world&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront

 

Commenterat NYT: “TheNYT insists on framing as "far right" the most mainstream goals ofany government: putting their citizens first, controlling their borders, andmaking the economy work for the average citizen.

Liberal values, open immigration, global institutions that benefit citizens ofother (often poor countries) have no real support, other than in the la la landof the liberal press and liberal western elites.

The so called "far right" or "populist" movements aresimply a yearning to a return to mainstream goals.”

 

Videoby Amada Taub and Max Fisher, Is There Something Wrong with Democracy? (5min.)

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/24/world/is-there-something-wrong-with-democracy.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Famanda-taub&action=click&contentCollection=undefined&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=5&pgtype=collection

 

 

 

 

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