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One of the most telling illustrations of the power of the corporate community over politics and the media is the different treatment…
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.
T he right wing speaks regularly about the menace of “big government” and the importance of shrinking “the beast,” but they include…
It is very interesting watching the liberals seek a foreign policy position that will differentiate them from the conservatives. After all, they…
The principal diplomatic correspondents for the New York Times, from Cyrus Sulzberger through Flora Lewis, James Reston, and Leslie Gelb to Thomas…
The word “coalition†has been a favorite of the Bush administration and media as they have attempted to put the invasion-occupation of…
The view that U.S. targets have no right to defend themselves from a U.S. threat or actual attack goes back a long…
P aul Berman’s book Terror and Liberalism is in the great tradition of Claire Sterling’s The Terror Network , Judith Miller’s God…
In his “Thoughts” on Chomsky, under the title “My Very,Very Allergic Reaction to Noam Chomsky: Khmer Rouge, Faurisson, Milosevic,” Brad DeLong is…
There are three words or phrases that are not permissible in the U.S. mainstream media in application to the Israel-Palestine conflict: racism,…
There are three words or phrases that are not permissible in the U.S. mainstream media in application to the Israel-Palestine conflict: racism,…