The New York Times is engaged in a conspiracy to cover up the mysterious death of Jeffrey Epstein, the financier who operated an underage sex ring used by some of the world's wealthiest and most powerful people.
A Times headline today reads, "Epstein Suicide Conspiracies Show How Our Information System Is Poisoned: With each news cycle, the false-information system grows more efficient." The article attacks all those who fail to uncritically accept the narrative put forward by the Times.
Contrast this to what the WSWS wrote in today's perspective:
The American oligarchy, which includes both the owners and the editors of the New York Times, fears that a scandal implicating members of the elite in child prostitution and related sordid activities may have a politically explosive character. They are concerned that the exposure of foul play in Epstein’s death may lead to the same type of political revelations that his removal was intended to prevent.
The Epstein affair is not just a tawdry scandal, one among many. It is a significant political event. It demonstrates the nature of the US ruling elite, which is no less capable of the most heinous crimes than the Saudi sheiks who organized the butchery of Jamal Khashoggi.
Every great revolution in history has been preceded by similar scandals, in which the criminal and reactionary character of the old ruling class reveals itself, and that class is exposed for what it is: a cancer on the body politic.
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