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Some years ago Noam Chomsky and I found it useful to distinguish between three categories of terrorism–constructive, benign and nefarious–the classification based…
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.
W e are in the midst of a major counterrevolution in which the governing classes of the West, taking advantage of the…
The mainstream media have long had a high gullibility quotient when it comes to dealing with demonized external threats, which makes it…
With the United States having initiated wars in violation of the UN Charter, and hence engaged in the ‘supreme international crime,’1 against…
[Published in Z Magazine (May, 2006), in a slightly abridged version and without footnotes.] The March 11 death of former Yugoslav…
With the United States having initiated wars in violation of the UN Charter, and hence engaged in the ‘supreme international crime,’1 against…
Back at the time of a major Bush-1 "drug war" in 1989, Hodding Carter pointed out that with increasing attention to the…
O ne of the most dubious clichés of the humanitarian intervention intellectuals and media editors and pundits is that human rights have…
B y any generally applicable standard—i.e., excluding the fraudulent but widely used “terrorism is what somebody else does” criterion—state terrorism is vastly…
It is a bit frightening to see how, even in the midst of the catastrophic aggression and occupation of Iraq, the United…