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Palestinians are "Semites," but the word antisemitism is never applied to prejudice against them, only to Jews. The restriction on the application…
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.
A prominent set of commentators claiming to speak from the left have aligned themselves with the national leadership in support of an…
In his latest phase as flack for the war party, Christopher Hitchens has taken on some of the qualities of his leader…
Edward S. Herman U.S. military policy has long been based on strategies and tactics that involve a heavy civilian toll. This has…
The U.S. media have done wonders in recent months in putting a good face on the “war on terror,” pretending that the…
We are at the peak of the latest corporate abuse-reform cycle in which business abuses have been so severe, and their effects…
Edward S. Herman In discussing the Bush administration’s “war on terrorism,” mainstream analysts and reporters rarely hark back to the Reagan era,…
Edward S. Herman The U.S. political and economic elite and mainstream media work like a very well-oiled machine in dealing with favored…
The successful terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, represented a spectacular failure of the U.S. national security establishment. But from the very…
It should be obvious that the above title is an oxymoron, because Israel is good, only a victim, not a victimizer, besides…