Daily Headlines | 5/20/09

New York Times Falsifies Obama-Netanyahu Meeting
by Prof. David Bromwich, globalresearch.ca

The New York Times assigned to the story a campaign-trail reporter, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, whose political perceptions are bland and whose knowledge of Israeli-American relations is an antiseptic zero. At the newspaper of record, a thing like that does not happen by accident. They took the most anxiously awaited meeting with a foreign leader of President Obama's term thus far, and buried it on page 12. The coverage of a major event, which the same newspaper had greeted only the day before by running an oversize attack-Iran op-ed by Jeffrey Goldberg, has officially now shrunk to the scale of a smaller op-ed.
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Military attorney: Waterboarding is ‘tip of the iceberg’
By David Edwards and Muriel Kane, Raw Story

“They Would Come In With A Scalpel Or A Razor Type Of Instrument And They Would Slash His Genitals, Just With Small Cuts" Monthly
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"The world has ignored our warnings"
By Dieter Bednarz and Erich Follath, Salon.com

Nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei talks about being wiretapped by the Bush administration, whose "arrogance and ignorance" turned the Middle East into "a giant mess."
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Japan's economy suffers record plunge
By Danielle Demetriou, The Daily Telegraph

Japan's economy has suffered its worst quarterly performance since records began more than five decades ago as it continues to struggle with the economic crisis.
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China has lost its position as the world's lowest-cost components manufacturer
Strait Times

China has lost its position as the world's lowest-cost components manufacturer to India and Mexico, a study indicated on Wednesday, in a blow for the Asian giant as it fights the financial crisis.
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Newt Gringrich: we can't trust Federal Government to administer our health insurance. Jon Stewart: then can we trust them to administer our military and national security?
Daily Show, Comedy Central

Netanyahu aide call's Obama's 2-state plan "stupid and childish"
By Roni Sofer, ynetnews.com
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Sri Lanka crisis deepens as Red Cross suspends aid
By Robert Bosleigh, The Times