Zcom_simple

Back Search Results - New Search

Commentary Herman: Mad Dogs, Scared Rabbits--laughing While Resisting

Commentary, April, 01 2002 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

For good reason it is hard for many people to see anything amusing at the current political scene, with a "war on terrorism" already devastating one small country, first class war criminal Ariel Sharon unleashed to assault another civilian populat...

Commentary Herman: Axis Of Evil--in Washington, D.c.

Commentary, March, 18 2002 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

Coup d'etat president George W. Bush has designated three poor and unconnected states as an "axis of evil," reflecting this great moralist's sensitivity to good and evil. He has been subjected to a certain amount of criticism for this strong langu...

Commentary Herman: Final Solution in the Occupied Territories

Commentary, February, 13 2002 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

Years ago many of us wondered how things that were obviously "beyond belief" could be made to seem normal by the intellectual culture and mainstream media.

Commentary Herman: Coalitions Of The Willing, Coerced, And Bribed

Commentary, December, 24 2001 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

When the United States pummels tiny states like Grenada and Panama, the U.S. media and public have no apparent embarrassment at the imbalance of power and the bully-boy aspect of the incursions; in fact, there is pride at super-Goliath beating up ...

Commentary Herman: Genocide As Collateral Damage, But With Sincere Regrets

Commentary, November, 10 2001 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

The Bush Afghan war calls up memories of the Vietnam war in both actions and rhetoric: the massive use of superior arms heavily impacting civilians, deliberate food deprivation, wholesale terror allegedly combatting "terrorism," but always "sincer...

Commentary Herman: ANTITERRORISM AS A COVER FOR TERRORISM

Commentary, October, 05 2001 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

During the Cold War the United States supported a string of terror states, from the immediate post-World War backing given Thailand dictator Phibun Songkhram, "the first pro-Axis dictator to regain power after the war," to its support of Suharto, ...

Commentary Herman: "The Price Is Worth It"

Commentary, September, 25 2001 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

Try to imagine how the mainstream U.S. media and intellectuals would respond to the disclosure that at an early planning meeting of the terrorists responsible for the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, the question had come up about w...

Commentary Herman: FOLKS OUT THERE HAVE A

Commentary, September, 14 2001 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

One of the most durable features of the U.S. culture is the inability or refusal to recognize U.S. crimes. The media have long been calling for the Japanese and Germans to admit guilt, apologize, and pay reparations.

Commentary Herman: THE OFFENSE BUDGET

Commentary, September, 09 2001 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

Just about the time George Orwell published his novel 1984, shortly after the end of World War II, the U.S. "War Department" was renamed the "Defense Department." This name change also coincided with the fact that the United States was then the so...

Commentary Herman: GENOCIDE AS THE SOLUTION TO "TERRORISM" IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES?

Commentary, August, 11 2001 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

The word "genocide" is used very loosely and irresponsibly these days; Sebastian Unger could see it in Kosovo by looking at the body of one Albanian alleged to be a victim of Serb paramilitaries ("A Different Kind of Killing," NYT Magazine, Feb. 2...

Commentary Herman: GODFATHERLY GLOBAL JUSTICE: MILOSEVIC, SHARON AND SUHARTO

Commentary, July, 05 2001 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

The politicization of the system of global justice has reached new heights over the past decade, with the U.S. Godfather asserting his firmer hegemonic position with an arrogance that is a throwback to Secretary of State Richard Olney's statement ...

Commentary Herman: HITCHENS ON "BODY COUNT IN KOSOVO"

Commentary, June, 19 2001 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

An important public relations bonanza for the U.S. and other NATO powers' actions across the globe has been the accommodation of many leftists to the priorities and channeled benevolence of their leaders. These "New Humanitarians" have been furiou...

Commentary Herman: HITCHENS ON "BODY COUNT IN KOSOVO"

Commentary, June, 19 2001 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

An important public relations bonanza for the U.S. and other NATO powers' actions across the globe has been the accommodation of many leftists to the priorities and channeled benevolence of their leaders. These "New Humanitarians" have been furiou...

Commentary Herman: GIVING THE PEOPLE BACK THEIR OWN MONEY

Commentary, June, 04 2001 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

One of today's most favored rightwing justifications of a massive tax reduction is the idea that taxes are a form of government theft, which take from individuals the fruits of their labor or rightful ownership, and without reasonable cause. As Pr...

Commentary Herman: PUBLIC VERSUS POWER INTELLECTUALS, Part 1

Commentary, May, 11 2001 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

The conventional use of the term "public intellectual" has been a source of growing confusion and bombast of late. At a forum on "The Future of Public Intellectuals" held some months ago in New York City, Russell Jacoby of The Last Intellectuals f...

Commentary Herman: PUBLIC VERSUS POWER INTELLECTUALS, Part 1

Commentary, May, 11 2001 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

The conventional use of the term "public intellectual" has been a source of growing confusion and bombast of late. At a forum on "The Future of Public Intellectuals" held some months ago in New York City, Russell Jacoby of The Last Intellectuals f...

Commentary Herman: THE MEDIA AT THE BARRICADES IN SUPPORT OF "FREE TRADE"

Commentary, April, 30 2001 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

Back at the time of the struggle over the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) in 1993, the mainstream media lined up in solid phalanx in its support, and Meg Greenfield, opinion editor of the Washington Post explained the one-sidedness of ...

Commentary Herman: UNCLE CHUTZPAH GETS BACK INTO THE RING

Commentary, April, 09 2001 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

Now that the humanitarian warrior Bill Clinton has been replaced by a compassionate conservative extremely close to the oil industry, military-industrial-complex, and Christian Right/"pro- life" (fetal, that is, not post-fetal) forces, what may we...

Commentary Herman: The Media-Rightwing Political Correctness Gambit Renewed: Horowitz And Reparations

Commentary, March, 24 2001 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

The heavy media attention being given to rejections of David Horowitz's ad on reparations for slavery is a throwback to the rightwing and "liberal media" political correctness campaign of 1991. In that earlier campaign, it was the alleged free spe...

Commentary Herman: THE MEDIA-RIGHTWING POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GAMBIT RENEWED: HOROWITZ AND REPARATIONS

Commentary, March, 24 2001 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

The heavy media attention being given to rejections of David Horowitz's ad on reparations for slavery is a throwback to the rightwing and "liberal media" political correctness campaign of 1991. In that earlier campaign, it was the alleged free spe...

Commentary Herman: THE GODFATHER AS "HONEST BROKER"

Commentary, March, 20 2001 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

The Palestinians have repeatedly called for a UN or other international presence to protect them against the brutalities of the Israeli occupation force in their land, and the UN high commissioner for human rights, Mary Robinson, as well as Amnest...

Commentary Herman: THE MEDIA NORMALIZE A RIGHTWING COUP D'ETAT

Commentary, February, 08 2001 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

We have just gone through a remarkable moment in U.S. history, in which a Republican activist-dominated Supreme Court has refused to allow a complete vote count in Florida which would have given Al Gore the presidency, and by judicial fiat simply ...

Commentary Herman: THE PACIFICA COUNTERREVOLUTION HITS WBAI

Commentary, December, 30 2000 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

One of the most crushing series of blows to the U.S. left, and to democracy in this country, has been the gradual transformation of the five station Pacifica Radio network from locally-based and left-oriented stations into centrally controlled, ma...

Commentary Herman: LIBERAL APOLOGETICS FOR IMPERIALISM

Commentary, November, 21 2000 Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page

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
Herman's ZSpace page

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
Herman's ZSpace page

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
Herman's ZSpace page

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
Herman's ZSpace page

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
Herman's ZSpace page

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
Herman's ZSpace page

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',"...

Loading_border