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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.
Newspaper of Record, as an establishment institution and consistent defender of U.S. imperial prerogatives, and it is interesting and amusing to see…
In the recent evolution of fad words and clichés we have already digested, exhausted, and moved past deregulation, privatization, and restructuring, and…
The prime mark of industry control over environmental policy is that its right to put chemicals into the environment without independent testing…
The U.S. leadership and elite are ready, willing, and often eager to drop bombs on the lesser peoples of the world. They…
One of the great myths and ideological rationales of capitalism is that consumers are sovereign, their demands ultimately ruling the system,…
Fog Watch: All The News Fit To Print The Vietnam War and the myth of a liberal media, Part 3 By Edward…
Their Terrorists and Ours By Edward S. Herman On July 12 and 13, 1998, the New York Times had successive front-page…
In both Europe and the United States, the substantial growth in U.S. jobs over the past several decades has been repeatedly…
The death of Pol Pot on April 15, 1998 unleashed a media barrage of indignation and sanitized history that illustrates well…