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After Munich and the German takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1938 and 1939, Hitler seemed a prospective winner, and this helped him make…
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.
I t is fascinating to see how effectively the U.S. propaganda system has normalized and even put a very good face on…
One of Tom Lehrer’s finest songs was a parody in the style of Richard Dyer-Bennet’s often lugubrious ancient Irish ballads, in which…
Ed Herman, Professor Emeritus at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, co-authored the landmark book Manufacturing Consent with Noam Chomsky. He’s authored…
G eorge Bush and his cabal are not just attacking and conquering Iraq, they are fighting a “war on terror,” a class…
There are, of course, important differences between the US invasions of Vietnam and Iraq. In Vietnam, from 1954 and till 1965 the…
THE TRADEOFF BETWEEN MILITARY AND CIVILIAN OUTLAYS IS UNDISCUSSIBLE IN THIS CORPORATE PSEUDO-DEMOCRACY: WE NEED TO MAKE BOLDER MOVES TOWARD MEDIA DEMOCRATIZATION…
David Ross: In The Real Terror Network (1982), you documented how the U.S. government did not support democracy around the world as…
T he cruise missile left (CML), sometimes self-designated “the patriotic left” (Eric Alterman, “Straw Liberals and False Prophets,” the Nation , December…
The media regularly speak of the “United States” or “Bulgaria,” as in “United States not affected by protests” (Philadelphia Inquirer) or “United…