Edward S. Herman The left always has a problem at election time, and embattled left pens are already trying to demonstrate that…
NATO’s “humanitarian” enterprise in Kosovo was built on a structure of lies, many of them flowing from NATO headquarters and officials of…
As the 21st century begins, with the U.S. hegemon and transnational capitalism roaming the earth like the dinosaurs of the distant past,…
Edward S. Herman The great nineteenth century U.S. agnostic and lecturer, Robert Green Ingersoll, used to delight in telling the story of…
Edward S. Herman In mid-February of this year Saul Landau issued an "Appeal to All Progressives: Stop the Pacifica Bashing!" And he…
The U.S. establishment’s and media’s treatment of post-Soviet Russia has been confused, sometimes hostile, and more often than not, apologetic. This is…
Edward S. Herman There has long been a strong tendency on the part of Western non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to serve as did…
industrial sponsors focused heavily on its educational, informational and cultural potential to which they were allegedly devoted, and in 1922 then Secretary…
Edward S. Herman With a column on trade and globalization in the New York Times of January 2 ("Once And Again"), MIT…
Edward S. Herman In each U.S. war there are liberals and leftists who lend it support, and even larger numbers who don’t…
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