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The liberalism of the Philadelphia Inquirer has long been something of a laugh, as its leaders and editors have persistently strained their…
Edward Herman
Edward Samuel Herman (April 7, 1925 – November 11, 2017) . He wrote extensively on economics, political economy, foreign policy, and media analysis. Among his books are The Political Economy of Human Rights (2 vols, with Noam Chomsky, South End Press, 1979); Corporate Control, Corporate Power (Cambridge University Press, 1981); The "Terrorism" Industry (with Gerry O'Sullivan, Pantheon, 1990); The Myth of the Liberal Media: An Edward Herman Reader (Peter Lang, 1999); and Manufacturing Consent (with Noam Chomsky, Pantheon, 1988 and 2002). In addition to his regular "Fog Watch" column in Z Magazine, he edited a web site, inkywatch.org, that monitors the Philadelphia Inquirer.
In a system where corporations are central in economic activity, economic crises have always and necessarily produced plans and programs of renovation…
It is enlightening and sometimes even amusing to see how the treatment of the shooting down of civilian planes is politicized and…
One of my favorite clichés of today is "look forward, not back," also a favorite of President Obama and Vice President Biden.…
The U.S. political class and those of the EU and the new "hope" and "change" leader of the United States, Barack Obama,…
One of the deceptive clichés of Western accounts of post World War II history is that NATO was constructed as a defensive…
[This essay is part of the ZNet Classics series. Three times a week we will re-post an article that we think is…
[This essay is part of the ZNet Classics series. Three times a week we will re-post an article that we think is…
Longtime activist and author Edward S. Herman was interviewed by Hans Bennett in Philadelphia on December 26, 2008. In this interview, Herman…
It is amazing to see sums now running into the trillions being allocated almost entirely to substantial market players, many of whom…