Lies for Microsoft and Pfizer on the NYT's Opinion Page

When you're rich and powerful in the United States you get to lie freely to advance your position in public debate, including the opinion page of The New York Times. This is why the paper ran an anti-free trade diatribe against China, insisting that the country respect patent and copyright protections claimed by U.S. companies.

The column, by two former U.S. intelligence officials, asserted:

"Chinese companies, with the encouragement of official Chinese policy and often the active participat...