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N ews reports indicate an official U.S. concern over Venezuelan President Chavez’s purchase of new weapons and the threat that this might…
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.
The New York Times has never been a very courageous newspaper in times of political hysteria and threats to civil liberties. When…
R obert Cay Johnston’s book Perfectly Legal (Portfolio, 2003) discloses its main theme in its subtitle: The Covert Campaign To Rig Our…
The U.S. political establishment keeps reaching new levels of hypocrisy, deception (including self-deception), and open immorality as the empire expands in the…
O ne of the world’s wonders is that the reelected Bush now has the power to carry out an agenda that will…
The Earlier Demonstration Elections In our 1984 book Demonstration Elections: U.S.-Staged Elections In The Dominican Republic, Vietnam, and El Salvador, Frank Brodhead…
T he hypocrisy that runs deep in this culture is amusingly illustrated by the fact that while the F-word has become standard…
In his edited volume The Fight Is For Democracy (Perennial: 2003), George Packer and his liberal colleagues argued that Bush went too…
I t has long been a problem for the U.S. imperial establishment that using their ever-improving arsenal of death, in projecting power…
“”The similarities between the Vietnam and Iraq wars become more marked with each passing week.We are now told that the U.S. forces…