Edward S. Herman My feeling that the government in Washington represents illegitimate authority ebbs and flows, but it has gathered strength over…
A jarring moment in the Philadelphia area propaganda outpouring in support of the bombing of Yugoslavia was a passionately prowar Op Ed…
The rapid decline of the Indonesian economy in 1997 and 1998–by some estimates a one-third fall in GDP–coupled with the resignation of…
War, propaganda, and the proliferation of doublespeak have always gone hand-in-hand. As was the case during the Persian Gulf war, the NATO…
The Nation has not distinguished itself in its coverage of the Kosovo crisis. It has had some good editorials and articles, but…
and David Peterson NATO spokespersons have justified the bombing of Serbian TV and radio on the grounds that these broadcasters are an…
It would be hard to imagine better evidence of the sorry state of supposedly left opinion in this country than Christopher Hitchens’…
Edward S. Herman Perhaps we should take heart in the rationality of the process whereby power affects global moral judgments and policies,…
permitting a low-casualty NATO occupation of Kosovo. I don’t think this was carefully thought out in advance; rather, it is a default…
Many years ago I participated in a Wharton School study of the savings and loan industry, my assignment being to analyse their…
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