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Herman: The New York Times Supports Thought Control: The Massad Case
Commentary, April, 16 2005
Edward Herman
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The New York Times has never been a very courageous newspaper in times of political hysteria and threats to civil liberties. When Bertrand Russell was denied the right to fill his appointment at CCNY in 1940, following an ugly campaign by a rightw...
Herman: The Normalization of Torture, Death Squads and Contempt for the Rule of Law
Commentary, March, 19 2005
Edward Herman
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The U.S. political establishment keeps reaching new levels of hypocrisy, deception (including self-deception), and open immorality as the empire expands in the pursuit of "freedom," militarism and war become more institutionalized, and rightwing p...
Herman: The Election In Iraq:
Znet Article, February, 13 2005
Edward Herman
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The Earlier Demonstration Elections In our 1984 book Demonstration Elections: U.S.-Staged Elections In The Dominican Republic, Vietnam, and El Salvador, Frank Brodhead and I stressed that such elections were mainly designed to placate (and misle...
Herman: George Packer and the Liberal Struggle to Support Imperialism
Commentary, January, 31 2005
Edward Herman
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In his edited volume The Fight Is For Democracy (Perennial: 2003), George Packer and his liberal colleagues argued that Bush went too far with his international policies that were Òa prescription for empireÓ (Michael Tomasky). But Packer and com...
Herman: We Had To Destroy Fallujah in Order to Save It
Commentary, November, 08 2004
Edward Herman
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Herman: The War OF Terrorism
Commentary, September, 11 2004
Edward Herman
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As the powerful seek domination their control of language is as important to their success as their possession of weapons to frighten and kill. The ability to pin the label of terrorist on their targets, and to have themselves (and clients) merely...
Herman: War Crimes Reply
Znet Article, May, 24 2004
Edward Herman
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None of my alleged "misstatements" are misstatements, as I will try to show with brevity, with only the reply on Racak at all extensive. Roger Lippman is a protagonist in the Balkan wars, his role b...
Herman: The Cruise Missile Left (part 5):
Commentary, May, 18 2004
Edward Herman
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Establishment politicians, media, and intellectuals use the word genocide with great abandon, but with a hugely politicized selectivity. It is an invidious word, like terrorism, so that attaching it to an enemy and target is helpful in demonizing,...
Herman: The Cruise Missile Left (part 5):
Znet Article, May, 17 2004
Edward Herman
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Establishment politicians, media, and intellectuals use the word genocide with great abandon, but with a hugely politicized selectivity. It is an invidious word, like terrorism, so that attaching it to an enemy and target is helpful in demonizing,...
Herman: Dasht-E Leili
Commentary, April, 07 2004
Edward Herman
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The Tipton Three, recently released from Guantanamo, and telling their story to the British media, disclosed that they had first been captured in Afghanistan by the Taliban, then swept into the prisons of the Northern Alliance.
Herman: Deficits that Menace (Democratic) and Deficits That Are Tolerable (Republican)
Commentary, January, 16 2004
Edward Herman
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One of the most telling illustrations of the power of the corporate community over politics and the media is the different treatment of deficits produced by Democrats and Republicans.
Herman: Coalition Of Joint Venture Looters?
Commentary, September, 23 2003
Edward Herman
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The word ÒcoalitionÓ has been a favorite of the Bush administration and media as they have attempted to put the invasion-occupation of Iraq in a good light. ÒCoalitionÓ has the implication of joint and collective rather than unilateral action, eve...
Herman: Rogues Have No Right To Self-defense:
Commentary, August, 16 2003
Edward Herman
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The view that U.S. targets have no right to defend themselves from a U.S. threat or actual attack goes back a long way. During the first three decades of the twentieth century, when the United States was regularly intervening in its backyard to di...
Herman: My Very, Very Allergic Reaction To Brad Delong On Chomsky
Znet Article, July, 24 2003
Edward Herman
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In his "Thoughts" on Chomsky, under the title "My Very,Very Allergic Reaction to Noam Chomsky: Khmer Rouge, Faurisson, Milosevic," Brad DeLong is long on name call...
Herman: Road Map
Znet Article, July, 05 2003
Edward Herman
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There are three words or phrases that are not permissible in the U.S. mainstream media in application to the Israel-Palestine conflict: racism, ethnic cleansing and international law. This follows from the deep, deep bias of the media favoring Isr...
Herman: Road Map To Sustainable Ethnic Cleansing
Znet Article, July, 05 2003
Edward Herman
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There are three words or phrases that are not permissible in the U.S. mainstream media in application to the Israel-Palestine conflict: racism, ethnic cleansing and international law. This follows from the deep, deep bias of the media favoring Isr...
Herman: Uncle Chutzpah, On A Rampage, Has
Commentary, June, 27 2003
Edward Herman
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After Munich and the German takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1938 and 1939, Hitler seemed a prospective winner, and this helped him make political gains at the expense of frightened neighboring countries whose leaders didn't want to offend him. He ha...
Herman: Little Versus Big Lies (and Structures Of Lies)
Commentary, May, 21 2003
Edward Herman
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One of Tom LehrerÕs finest songs was a parody in the style of Richard Dyer-BennetÕs often lugubrious old English folk songs, in which a child confesses to having killed her parents and baked her baby brother in a stew; she admits this as she canno...
Herman: Propaganda in the Free Press
Znet Article, May, 03 2003
Edward Herman
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Ed Herman, Professor Emeritus at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, co-authored the landmark book Manufacturing Consent with Noam Chomsky. He's authored many other books including: The Real Terror Network, The Washington Connection an...
Herman: From Vietnam To Iraq
Znet Article, April, 30 2003
Edward Herman
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There are, of course, important differences between the US invasions of Vietnam and Iraq. In Vietnam, from 1954 and till 1965 the United States simply tried to impose an imported puppet government on a populace that supported a deeply-rooted commu...
