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When the United States pummels tiny states like Grenada and Panama, the U.S. media and public have no apparent embarrassment at the…
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.
S. Herman The U.S. war against Afghanistan was entitled “Operation Infinite Justice,” before this was changed after Arab protests that only God…
In a “Rejoinder to Noam Chomsky” in early October, Christopher Hitchens put up two sentences regarding my own writing, as follows: …
The Bush Afghan war calls up memories of the Vietnam war in both actions and rhetoric: the massive use of superior arms…
Apparently Christopher Hitchens cannot understand that attacking supposed rationalizations for X may be de facto rationalizing for Y, as in his “Against…
Edward S. Herman Left criticisms of the media have always drawn the accusation of conspiracy theory, because media personnel and defenders of…
During the Cold War the United States supported a string of terror states, from the immediate post-World War backing given Thailand dictator…
Try to imagine how the mainstream U.S. media and intellectuals would respond to the disclosure that at an early planning meeting of…
own actions (e.g., helping dismantle the Soviet Union and pressing Russian "reform"; positively encouraging Slovenian and Croatian exit from Yugoslavia and the…
Herman Just about the time George Orwell published his novel 1984, shortly after the end of World War II, the U.S. "War…