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Zmag Article Herman: Triumph of Lunacy

Zmag Article, June, 02 2008 Edward Herman
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The public in the United States doesn’t like what is going on and fully 81 percent feel that the country is moving in the wrong direction. But there doesn’t seem to be much the public can do about it.

Zmag Article Herman: Safari Journalism

Zmag Article, April, 02 2008 Edward Herman
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At the center of Schindler’s analysis is his detailed showing that Izetbegovic was an Islamic fundamentalist, who at no time favored a multi-ethnic tolerant state, but always kept this hidden from the gullible and bamboozled Western pundits.

Zmag Article Herman: Neither Popular Government Nor Popular Information

Zmag Article, March, 01 2008 Edward Herman
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One of my favorite quotations, from James Madison in 1822, is that “a popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both” (this was used as the title of Nichols ...

Zmag Article Herman: The New York Times on the Kosovo Crisis

Zmag Article, February, 01 2008 Edward Herman
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All the New York Times’s biases and willingness to suppress evidence and rewrite history as regards Yugoslavia have been evident in its treatment of the current “crisis” over the failed negotiations regarding the future of Kosovo and the anticipat...

Zmag Article Herman: The Annapolis War Preparation Conference

Zmag Article, January, 01 2008 Edward Herman
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The Annapolis Conference of November 27, 2007, has been featured as a “peace conference” called to help bring about a peaceful resolution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. But this is a deception and fraud.

Zmag Article Herman: Economics in the Nut House

Zmag Article, December, 01 2007 Edward Herman
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In her August 4 piece in the Huffington Post, “Rove Exits With His Usual M.O.’s: Delusional and Deceptive,” Arianna Huffington offers as a major Rove delusion his notion that “by Bush wielding his veto pen in the upcoming budget fight, the GOP wil...

Zmag Article Herman: More Nuggets From A Nut House

Zmag Article, November, 01 2007 Edward Herman
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It is amusing to contrast the September 24, 2007 treatment of Iran President Mahmoud Ahmandinejad by Columbia University President Lee Bollinger with Bollinger’s September 16, 2005 treatment of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and the treatment...

Zmag Article Herman: The New York Times on Libya-Pan Am 103

Zmag Article, October, 01 2007 Edward Herman
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New York Times propaganda service has often been dramatically displayed in connection with the shooting down of civilian airliners. The editors were hysterical over the Soviet shoot down of Korean Air Lines flight 007 on August 3...

Zmag Article Herman: Western Elite's War Against the Third World

Zmag Article, September, 01 2007 Edward Herman
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The Cold War was primarily a war against the Third World, to contain the thrust toward independence and the pursuit of non-elite interests in the former colonial areas that followed World War II, with its damaging affects on colo...

Zmag Article Herman: The Hariri Special Court vs the Imminent U.S. Attack on Iran

Zmag Article, July, 01 2007 Edward Herman
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U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khali- lzad, responding to the UN Security Council vote to set up a special court to prosecute the killing of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri two years ago, stated before the Council that, ...

Zmag Article Herman: Inhumanitarian Intervention

Zmag Article, May, 01 2007 Edward Herman
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O ne of the really depressing features of the Democratic political advance is that it forwards the career of Richard Holbrooke, widely thought to be the most likely Secretary of State under a Democratic presidency. Holbr...

Zmag Article Herman: Nuggets from a Nuthouse Elections, non-intervention, rule of law, and China

Zmag Article, March, 01 2007 Edward Herman
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T he U.S. establishment takes a “pragmatic” view of the merits of elections, with approval or disapproval depending on how well it “works,” as perceived by the dominant inte...

Zmag Article Herman: Bush’s Alleged Democracy Goal in Iraq

Zmag Article, February, 01 2007 Edward Herman
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L iberation and democracy came late as an alleged major goal of the Bush administration in its invasion-occupation of Iraq. Despite this lateness, and a vast array of reasons and evidence that at b...

Zmag Article Herman: Democratic Betrayal Breaking promises again

Zmag Article, January, 01 2007 Edward Herman
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I t has become standard practice for parties of the left, or that claim to represent mass constituencies, to make populist and peace-stressing promises and gestures that are betrayed instantly on the assumption of ...

Zmag Article Herman: The U.S. and Israel

Zmag Article, September, 01 2006 Edward Herman
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W ith Israel engaged once again in a major war of aggression in Lebanon, and protected once again from any effective global response by U.S. power and veto, it becomes clearer than ever that the ce...

Zmag Article Herman: Notes on the Progress of the Counterrevolution

Zmag Article, July, 01 2006 Edward Herman
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W e are in the midst of a major counterrevolution in which the governing classes of the West, taking advantage of the collapse of the Soviet Union, corporate globalization, increased media concentr...

Zmag Article Herman: Ethnic Cleansing and the “Moral Instinct”

Zmag Article, March, 01 2006 Edward Herman
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O ne of the most dubious clichés of the humanitarian intervention intellectuals and media editors and pundits is that human rights have become more important to the United States and other NAT...

Zmag Article Herman: On the Preeminence of State Terrorism Globalizing &ldquo

Zmag Article, February, 01 2006 Edward Herman
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B y any generally applicable standard—i.e., excluding the fraudulent but widely used “terrorism is what somebody else does” criterion—state terrorism is vastly more destruct...

Zmag Article Herman: The Iran "Crisis" - A prelude to aggression

Zmag Article, November, 01 2005 Edward Herman
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It is a bit frightening to see how, even in the midst of the catastrophic aggression and occupation of Iraq, the United States, having engaged once again in the “supreme crime,”...

Zmag Article Herman: Kofi Annan and the Art of Puppetry

Zmag Article, July, 01 2005 Edward Herman
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I t may sound absurd to suggest any element of puppetry in the role of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. After all, hasn’t he been assailed over the past year for corruption and for suggesting that the invasion of...

Zmag Article Herman: Chavez, Lebanon, & Iraq

Zmag Article, May, 01 2005 Edward Herman
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N ews reports indicate an official U.S. concern over Venezuelan President Chavez’s purchase of new weapons and the threat that this might set off a local arms race, help him support terrorists, and point to...

Zmag Article Herman: The Political Economy Of Taxes

Zmag Article, April, 01 2005 Edward Herman
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R obert Cay Johnston’s book Perfectly Legal (Portfolio, 2003) discloses its main theme in its subtitle: The Covert Campaign To Rig Our Tax System To Benefit The Super Rich—An...

Zmag Article Herman: Major Bush Themes in Intensifying Class Warfare

Zmag Article, March, 01 2005 Edward Herman
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O ne of the world’s wonders is that the reelected Bush now has the power to carry out an agenda that will be hurtful to the material interests of a majority of the 59 million who gave him their vote. For these vo...

Zmag Article Herman: Studies in Hypocrisy From the F-Word to the New York Times

Zmag Article, February, 01 2005 Edward Herman
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T he hypocrisy that runs deep in this culture is amusingly illustrated by the fact that while the F-word has become standard operating language, especially under conditions of emotion or stress, and for the political r...

Zmag Article Herman: “They Kill Reporters, Don't They?”

Zmag Article, January, 01 2005 Edward Herman
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I t has long been a problem for the U.S. imperial establishment that using their ever-improving arsenal of death, in projecting power from Vietnam to Iraq, kills large numbers of target state civilians, in violation of...

Zmag Article Herman: The Imposition of Counsel on Milosevic: Marlise Simons continues her exemplary propaganda service

Zmag Article, November, 01 2004 Edward Herman
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In an earlier study of Marlise Simons’s coverage of the Yugoslavia Tribunal in the New York Times, David Peterson and I described how she framed the issues, rewrote history, and suppressed inconvenient evidence to ...

Zmag Article Herman: Beyond Doublespeak: Iraq & Israel

Zmag Article, June, 01 2004 Edward Herman
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B ush, Sharon, and the media are steadily breaking new ground in the use of language to put aggression, pacification, ethnic clean- sing, and the disregard for law and elementary decency in a good ...

Zmag Article Herman: The United States as Torture Central

Zmag Article, May, 01 2004 Edward Herman
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The recent release of five British citizens from the Camp X-Ray prison at Guantanamo Bay and their disclosures of serious abuse and torture at the hands of U.S. personnel, raises once again the question of the U.S. position vis-à-vis torture and ...

Zmag Article Herman: Some Choice Morsels, Past and Present

Zmag Article, March, 01 2004 Edward Herman
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“I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq” (Paul Wolfowitz, 2003—Note: These words have inspired the Iraqi resistance in their efforts to ou...

Zmag Article Herman: Aggression Rights & Trials of Villains

Zmag Article, February, 01 2004 Edward Herman
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T he U.S. and British invasion and occupation of Iraq was carried out in straightforward violation of the UN Charter’s prohibition of aggression and therefore constituted what the Nuremberg C...

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