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Commentary Herman: Great and Little Satan Free to Aggress and Ethnically Cleanse-Their Targets Have No Right of Self Defense (or Any Other Right Questioned by the Satans)**

Commentary, December, 16 2007 Edward Herman
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In the discussions about Iran among the leaders in the "international community," their expressed dire fears about Iran and its nuclear program never cause them to raise any questions about Israel's nuclear program, even though it is well known th...

Commentary Herman: How Market-Democracy Keeps the Public and "Populism" At Bay

Commentary, August, 13 2007 Edward Herman
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It was interesting to see the New York Times editorialize against the growing role of money in elections, pointing to "the sheer volume of money it [the current election campaign] is generating," and the "ludicrously premature handicapping of the...

Commentary Herman: Beyond Munich: The UN Security Council Helps Disarm a Prospective Further Victim of U.S. Aggression [*]

Commentary, April, 02 2007 Edward Herman
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Imagine that when Hitler was threatening to invade Poland, after having swallowed Czechoslovakia-with the help of the Western European powers' appeasement of Hitler at Munich in September 1938-the League of Nations imposed an arms embargo on Pola...

Commentary Herman: Iraq: The Genocide Option

Commentary, January, 24 2007 Edward Herman
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It was claimed early in 2005 that the United States was considering resort to what has been called the "Salvadoran Option" in Iraq, in which, as had been done in El Salvador in the 1980s, U.S. Special Forces would train paramilitary squads to hun...

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...

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...

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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary Herman: We Had To Destroy Fallujah in Order to Save It

Commentary, November, 08 2004 Edward Herman
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Commentary 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...

Commentary 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,...

Commentary 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.

Commentary 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.

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary Herman: Media Democratization

Commentary, April, 17 2003 Edward Herman
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THE TRADEOFF BETWEEN MILITARY AND CIVILIAN OUTLAYS IS UNDISCUSSIBLE IN THIS CORPORATE PSEUDO-DEMOCRACY: WE NEED TO MAKE BOLDER MOVES TOWARD MEDIA DEMOCRATIZATION

Commentary Herman: Coalition Of Deception

Commentary, March, 08 2003 Edward Herman
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The media regularly speak of the "United States" or

Commentary Herman: The Manufactured And Real Iraq Crisis

Commentary, February, 04 2003 Edward Herman
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With enough power and chutzpah it is possible for an aggressive and over-armed state to manufacture a crisis and pretend that the crisis lies with the threatened victim rather than with the aggressor state. Today, the United States has not only ma...

Commentary Herman: Answering the Cruise Miissile Left on Iraq

Commentary, December, 08 2002 Edward Herman
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It is pretty depressing to see how frequently liberals and some leftists have been unable to maintain a principled opposition to the U.S. policies toward Iraq, which, following more than a decade of "sanctions of mass destruction" are now rushing ...

Commentary Herman: News Not Fit To Print

Commentary, August, 23 2002 Edward Herman
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The U.S. media have done wonders in recent months in putting a good face on the "war on terror," pretending that the Karzai government in Afghanistan represents Afghans in another "almost democracy," downplaying the death and devastation wrought b...

Commentary Herman: The Corporate Abuse-reform Cycle

Commentary, July, 02 2002 Edward Herman
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We are at the peak of the latest corporate abuse-reform cycle in which business abuses have been so severe, and their effects so conspicuous, that their low-key treatment and normalization by the mainstream media has been unsustainable.

Commentary Herman: Media Protect Bush On 9/11 Security Failure

Commentary, May, 31 2002 Edward Herman
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The successful terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, represented a spectacular failure of the U.S. national security establishment. But from the very beginning there was very little media interest in examining that failure, although the attack i...

Commentary Herman: "israel's Willing Executioners"

Commentary, May, 11 2002 Edward Herman
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It should be obvious that the above title is an oxymoron, because Israel is good, only a victim, not a victimizer, besides which Israel is a U.S. client and friend. So an invidious phrase like "willing executioners" can no more be applied to Israe...

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