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There Have to Be Consequences For Advocating Illegal Wars

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Current Affairs

Politics, Culture, Government, Comedy, News

4.6673 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Yet again, the New York Times’ Bret Stephens advocates the overthrow of a sovereign government. Why do the readers of the “paper of record” tolerate this dangerous propaganda?

Transcript

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0:00.0

So here at Curit Affairs, we were so horrified by the latest column in the New York Times by

0:06.8

Brett Stevens advocating an illegal regime change war with Venezuela.

0:12.2

We've actually made an offer, which is that anyone who shows us proof that they've canceled

0:18.1

their New York Times subscription can have a free one-year digital

0:22.6

subscription to our magazine, Current Affairs. Now, that is digital, it's not print. You get a PDF,

0:29.6

but it's a subscription. If you want the print edition, that's also excellent. We appreciate that.

0:35.7

But you get a free digital subscription if you show us that

0:39.4

you have unsubscribe to the New York Times or the Atlantic, which we also despise. And so far

0:45.8

hundreds of you have already sent in your cancellations, the New York Times. We've given

0:51.9

you your digital subscriptions. We've cost the New York Times over $60,000 and lost subscription revenue per year, which we're very pleased about,

1:03.7

because we believe there has to be a price paid for publishing mendacious pro-war propaganda.

1:11.3

Stephen's column is going to be the subject of this video.

1:15.6

It's a small price for the New York Times to pay.

1:17.7

It's rather a pittance for an organization that's so wealthy.

1:21.3

But this column was so shameful that we think there need to be at least some consequences

1:26.8

for putting out the kind of dangerous, deceptive writing that we're there need to be at least some consequences for putting out the kind of dangerous

1:29.1

deceptive writing that we're here to discuss today because the human stakes of it are all too

1:35.0

real. More people put their money into independent outlets, the more good journalism we can do,

1:40.7

and the less we will be dependent for news on legacy media outlets that publish

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harmful, neoconservative talking points.

1:47.3

So thank you to those who've canceled your New York Times subscription so far, and welcome

1:50.8

aboard.

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