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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: …
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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…
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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…
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