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Commentary Herman: LIBERAL APOLOGETICS FOR IMPERIALISM

Commentary, November, 21 2000 Edward Herman
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Edward S. HermanThe American Prospect (TAP) magazine, edited by Robert Kuttner and Paul Starr, with Robert Reich as "National Editor," is a liberal magazine par excellence, and has frequent articles on domestic policy issues that represent the bes...

Commentary Herman: NADER, OR DISENFRAN-

Commentary, November, 11 2000 Edward Herman
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It is well understood that this electoral system is sick for reason of the great importance of money. The two dominant parties are even recognized in the mainstream media to have two conventions: the nominal and heavily featured one where the publ...

Commentary Herman: CENSORSHIP AS A PACIFICA MANAGEMENT TOOL

Commentary, November, 02 2000 Edward Herman
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Studying the recent history of Pacifica over the past several weeks, I have been once again impressed with how important a role censorship has played in the tactics and apparent strategy of the Pacifica management. Censorship by the use of gag r...

Commentary Herman: UNCLE CHUTZPAH AND HIS MEDIA MINIONS ON THE YUGOSLAV AND OTHER ELECTIONS

Commentary, September, 29 2000 Edward Herman
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There is no better place than foreign elections to observe the brazenness of U.S. interventionism abroad, its crude double standard as between targets and client states, and the mainstream media's propaganda service in support of their country's i...

Commentary Herman: THE MONEY, MEDIA, AND LIBERAL-LEFT ROLE IN PLUTOCRATIC ELECTIONS

Commentary, September, 13 2000 Edward Herman
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In many ways the system is working beautifully right now. First of all, money dominates the initial selection and weeding out of presidential candidates, so that only those who will serve the corporate interest on the basics--advancing "free trade...

Commentary Herman: ROGUE REMOVAL AS OFFICIAL U.S. FOREIGN POLICY

Commentary, August, 11 2000 Edward Herman
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In her August 1 speech before the Republican National Convention, Bush foreign policy adviser Condoleezza Rice explained to the audience that Bush "recognizes that the magnificent men and women of America's armed forces are not a global police for...

Commentary Herman: THE HACK STRIKES AGAIN!: KRUGMAN ON NADER

Commentary, July, 29 2000 Edward Herman
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In his op-ed column of July 23rd entitled "Saints and Profits," Paul Krugman shows once again why the New York Times put him on as a regular (for a more extended discussion, see my "Krugman On Economists As Hacks: Or, 'Mirror Mirror on the Wall',"...

Commentary Herman: THE NEW YORK TIMES VERSUS NADER--AND DEMOCRACY

Commentary, July, 07 2000 Edward Herman
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In its editorial, "Mr. Nader's Misguided Crusade" (June 30), the New York Times assails Nader's candidacy and campaign on grounds that are partly fraudulent and misleading (as I describe below). But it is also clear that this attack is based ultim...

Commentary Herman: KOSOVO ONE YEAR LATER: FROM SERB REPRESSION TO NATO-SPONSORED ETHNIC CLEANSING

Commentary, June, 23 2000 Edward Herman
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Now a little more than one year after the ending of Nato's 78- day bombing of Yugoslavia and the beginning of Nato control of Kosovo (June 10-12, 1999), the mainstream media have been exceedingly reticent in offering the public serious retrospecti...

Commentary Herman: WHAT IS LIBERALISM?

Commentary, June, 12 2000 Edward Herman
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In a May 22 editorial in the liberal The American Prospect (TAP), which he edits along with Paul Starr, Robert Kuttner lauds radicals, for keeping moral demands to the fore and for pioneering on major issues that were central to democratic advance...

Commentary Herman: THE LEFT AND ELECTORAL PARTICIPATION

Commentary, May, 02 2000 Edward Herman
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The left always has a problem at election time, and embattled left pens are already trying to demonstrate that we should: (1) forego voting; (2) vote for Ralph Nader; or (3) vote for the lesser evil (Gore). The fact that there is always such vigor...

Commentary Herman: EXPORTING DEMOCRACY, OR A FAVORABLE CLIMATE OF INVESTMENT?

Commentary, March, 28 2000 Edward Herman
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The great nineteenth century U.S. agnostic and lecturer, Robert Green Ingersoll, used to delight in telling the story of the test of true faith imposed on those seeking entry into heaven by the heavenly gatekeeper (e.g., in his lecture on the "Mis...

Commentary Herman: SAUL LANDAU'S LETTER ON "PACIFICA BASHING"

Commentary, March, 02 2000 Edward Herman
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In mid-February of this year Saul Landau issued an "Appeal to All Progressives: Stop the Pacifica Bashing!" And he got some 40 liberals and leftists to sign on, many associated with The Nation and Institute for Policy Studies.

Commentary Herman: Real Journalism

Commentary, February, 03 2000 Edward Herman
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There has long been a strong tendency on the part of Western non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to serve as did the Christian missionaries in the years of colonial expansion and occupation, who followed in the wake of the empire builders to con...

Commentary Herman: The AOL Time Merger

Commentary, January, 16 2000 Edward Herman
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Each great technological advance in communication begins with claims of the dominance of public service aims and probable effects, which is then followed and concluded by a commercial takeover.

Commentary Herman: Paul Krugman in the NYT

Commentary, January, 07 2000 Edward Herman
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With a column on trade and globalization in the New York Times of January 2 ("Once And Again"), MIT economist Paul Krugman announces his new status as a Times columnist under the heading "Reckonings."

Commentary Herman: THEY BROUGHT IT ON THEMSELVES

Commentary, December, 18 1999 Edward Herman
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One of the tricks of imperialism is to pretend that a targeted enemy has been offered a negotiating option, quickly claim that that option has been rejected, and then ruthlessly attack or continue sanctions that may be taking a heavy human toll.

Commentary Herman: Questioning Henwood on Globalization

Commentary, December, 01 1999 Edward Herman
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For some reason Doug Henwood feels called upon to play down globalization. Others on the left, some associated with MONTHLY REVIEW, have done the same, warning that any acceptance of the globalization thesis will discourage leftists and breed "def...

Commentary Herman: The Times and East Timor

Commentary, November, 14 1999 Edward Herman
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Seth Mydans's October 31 piece on the Indonesian departure from East Timor, "A Calamitous Era Plays Out Quietly For East Timorese," with its admission that 200,000 had died in Indonesia's 24 year failed pacification effort, including its final "ra...

Commentary Herman: Missing Bodies

Commentary, October, 25 1999 Edward Herman
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A Reuters news dispatch of October 13 bylined Pristina, Kosovo, is entitled " Absolutely No Bodies Found in Supposed Mine Shaft Mass Grave in Kosovo." This follows an earlier report by a Spanish forensic team that went into a part of Kosovo allege...

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