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O ne of the most striking features of the working of the U.S. imperial system and media is the regular inflation of…
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.
One of the most dramatic features of the Bush-Blair drive to war–actually, “massacre” given the imbalance of forces– has been the split…
With enough power and chutzpah it is possible for an aggressive and over-armed state to manufacture a crisis and pretend that the…
D iana Johnstone’s Fools’ Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO and Wester n Delusions (Monthly Review Press, 2002) is essential reading for anybody who wants…
W hen U.S. officials declare that there is a dire threat from some hapless small country that they have put on their…
I owe an apology to Michael Berube on the point of the title to his article in the Chronicle, although I do…
I am happy to have this opportunity to reply to Michael Berube, partly because it will allow me to introduce Z Net…
It is pretty depressing to see how frequently liberals and some leftists have been unable to maintain a principled opposition to the…
It is pretty depressing to see how frequently liberals and some leftists have been unable to maintain a principled opposition to the…
The United States has a long tradition of arrogance, racism, unilateralism, and disregard of international law in its external dealings. So while…