For the NYT or WP, everything bad that happens in China or Russia is the result of a nefarious plot hatched in Beijing or Moscow. For the life of me I can't understand why people who would be hypersceptical over these papers' coverage of, say, Venezuela cite them as impeachable sources on other parts of the world.
This comes as no surprise. You have stated publicly on LBO-Talk that censorship was not a problem in the USSR and that people could read whatever they want. You also quote liberally from the Putinite press, which fails to meet Rupert Murdoch's standards by all accounts. In fact, the Monthly Review article I was reviewing includes a bunch of tables in the appendix that confirms the NY Times report. Those tables are from reliable sources. Finally, it does not surprise me that you would take the side of the Chinese government against an investigative piece that ran in the NY Times. This appears to be part of a pattern of defending whatever Russia, India and China deem necessary in their scorched earth march to fully developed capitalist property relations.
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