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Commentary Herman: The Liberals Answer Tony JudtÕs ÒUseful IdiotsÓ Charge

Commentary, October, 24 2006 Edward Herman
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Bruce Ackerman and Todd Gitlin (A-G) have replied to Tony JudtÕs "Bush's Useful Idiots...The Strange Death of Liberal America" (London Review of Books, September 21, 2006) (1), in a piece entitled "We Answer to the Name of Liberals" (American Pr...

Commentary Herman: The Liberals Answer Tony Judt’s “Useful Idiots” Charge

Commentary, October, 24 2006 Edward Herman
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Bruce Ackerman and Todd Gitlin (A-G) have replied to Tony Judt’s "Bush's Useful Idiots...The Strange Death of Liberal America" (London Review of Books, September 21, 2006) (1), in a piece entitled "We Answer to the Name of Liberals" (Ame...

Commentary Herman: The Liberals Answer Tony JudtÕs ÒUseful IdiotsÓ Charge

Commentary, October, 23 2006 Edward Herman
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Bruce Ackerman and Todd Gitlin (A-G) have replied to Tony JudtÕs "Bush's Useful Idiots...The Strange Death of Liberal America" (London Review of Books, September 21, 2006) (1), in a piece entitled "We Answer to the Name of Liberals" (American Pr...

Commentary Herman: The Liberals Answer Tony Judt's "Useful Idiots" Charge

Commentary, October, 23 2006 Edward Herman
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Bruce Ackerman and Todd Gitlin (A-G) have replied to Tony Judt’s "Bush's Useful Idiots...The Strange Death of Liberal America" (London Review of Books, September 21, 2006) (1), in a piece entitled "We Answer to the Name of Liberals" (Ame...

Znet Article Herman: Michael Ignatieff on Israeli Self-Defense and Serb Ethnic Cleansing

Znet Article, August, 25 2006 Edward Herman
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Michael Ignatieff, now a Canadian MP and contender for a top leadership position in the Liberal Party, was slow in responding to the Israeli war on Lebanon. He told the Canadian media on August 1st that "I've been following it minutely from the be...

Znet Article Herman: Ethnic Cleansing: Constructive, Benign, and Nefarious (Kafka Era Studies, No. 1)

Znet Article, August, 09 2006 Edward Herman
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Some years ago Noam Chomsky and I found it useful to distinguish between three categories of terrorism--constructive, benign and nefarious--the classification based strictly on the utility of the terrorism to U.S. interests as perceived by the rul...

Commentary Herman: U.S. Willing to Talk, With Conditions, and the Media Bites Once Again

Commentary, June, 10 2006 Edward Herman
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The mainstream media have long had a high gullibility quotient when it comes to dealing with demonized external threats, which makes it easy to manage them and guide them into propaganda service. In the case of the ludicrous Guatemalan security th...

Znet Article Herman: U.S. Aggression-Time Once Again

Znet Article, May, 16 2006 Edward Herman
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With the United States having initiated wars in violation of the UN Charter, and hence engaged in the "supreme international crime,"1 against Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Iraq in 1999, 2001, and 2003, one might have expected that its commencement ...

Znet Article Herman: Milosevic's Death in the Propaganda System

Znet Article, May, 14 2006 Edward Herman
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[Published in Z Magazine (May, 2006), in a slightly abridged version and without footnotes.]  The March 11 death of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in his prison cell in The Hague was greeted by Western political circles and media al...

Znet Article Herman: U.S. Aggression-Time Once Again

Znet Article, May, 13 2006 Edward Herman
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With the United States having initiated wars in violation of the UN Charter, and hence engaged in the "supreme international crime,"1 against Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Iraq in 1999, 2001, and 2003, one might have expected that its commencement ...

Znet Article Herman: Uncle Chutzpah and His Willing Executioners on the Dire Iran Threat: With Twelve Principles of War Propaganda in Ongoing Service

Znet Article, March, 15 2006 Edward Herman
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Back at the time of a major Bush-1 "drug war" in 1989, Hodding Carter pointed out that with increasing attention to the newly declared "crisis" by the administration and media, the public's estimate of the importance of the drug problem rose spect...

Znet Article Herman: Morality's Avenging Angels

Znet Article, August, 30 2005 Edward Herman
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Operation Allied Force was not a moral venture. It was, however, carried out in the name of an humanitarian action on behalf of the Kosovo Albanians, and it won support in the NATO-bloc countries by a widespread belief in the authenticity of its ...

Commentary Herman: The Farce of the Bush Pursuit of Democracy Abroad--While Undermining It At Home

Commentary, August, 26 2005 Edward Herman
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The Bush rationale for the invasion-occupation of Iraq was the threat to U.S. national security posed by Saddam HusseinÕs alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction and ties to Al Qaeda. SaddamÕs brutal rule was sometimes mentioned in the c...

Znet Article Herman: Reply to Stela Rajic:

Znet Article, July, 24 2005 Edward Herman
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Stela Rajic and her family were clearly victims of  serious abuse and injustice, but this experience has crippled her ability to look at the issues with any objectivity. She says that “nothing is black and white,” and that â€...

Znet Article Herman: Bill Weinberg supports the onset of World War IV

Znet Article, July, 19 2005 Edward Herman
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[Note: Weinberg put  a very similar version of  this critique on his World War 4 web site, which I answered with the reply I reproduce here with only minor bracketed changes that reflect his occasional shifts. But as I noted in my initial reply, I...

Znet Article Herman: Reply to Roger Lippman

Znet Article, July, 18 2005 Edward Herman
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In an earlier round with Roger Lippman, he accused me of falsely claiming that the State Department had declared 500,000 missing in Kosovo, a charge with I answered by quoting from a  State Department press release. Here is my earlier reply on the...

Znet Article Herman: Reply to Julie Wornan

Znet Article, July, 18 2005 Edward Herman
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Julie Wornan wisely does not attempt to refute my “allegations.”  Instead she works by an appeal to authority, and by an attack on what she reads as my “methods.” On authority, she mentions the Red Cross, Amnesty I...

Znet Article Herman: The Politics of the Srebrenica Massacre*

Znet Article, July, 07 2005 Edward Herman
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"Srebrenica" has become the symbol of evil, and specifically Serb evil. It is commonly described as "a horror without parallel in the history of Europe since the Second World War" in which there was a cold-blooded execution "of at least 8,000 Musl...

Znet Article Herman: From Ingsoc And Newspeak To Amcap, Amerigood, And Marketspeak

Znet Article, June, 02 2005 Edward Herman
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(This is a chapter in a just published book, edited by Abbott Gleason, Jack Goldsmith and Martha G. Nussbaum, On Nineteen Eighty-Four: Orwell and Our Future, Princeton University Press, 2005, based on a conference on Orwell in 1999) Although 1984...

Znet Article Herman: Daniel Okrent's Revealing Closeout as Public Editor of the New York Times

Znet Article, May, 24 2005 Edward Herman
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In his final column as Public Editor of the New York Times, Daniel Okrent discusses "13 Things I Meant to Write About but Never Did" (May 22, 2005). His list is interesting for what it tells about Okrent's biases, and indirectly those of  his boss...

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