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Herman: Reply to George Monbiot on "Genocide Belittling"

Znet Article, July, 19 2011 Edward Herman
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Isn’t George Monbiot “belittling” genocide when he puts the death of 8,000 soldiers at Srebrenica in the same class as the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust death camps?

Herman: Gilbert Achcar's Defense of Humanitarian Intervention

Znet Article, April, 08 2011 Edward s. Herman
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Gilbert Achcar defends the recently "UN-authorized" imperialist intervention in Libya on the ground that general principles may require exceptions in concrete cases. "Every general rule admits of exceptions. This includes the general rule tha...

Herman: FROM INGSOC AND NEWSPEAK TO AMCAP, AMERIGOOD, AND MARKETSPEAK

Znet Article, February, 13 2011 Edward Herman
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Although 1984 was a Cold War document that dramatized the threat of the Soviet enemy, and has always been used mainly to serve Cold War political ends, it also contained the germs of a powerful critique of U.S. and Western practice.

Herman: Reply to Stephen Zunes

Znet Article, December, 30 2010 Edward Herman
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Stephen Zunes has done some very good work, but in 2000, he wishfully read-into the regime-change campaign against Yugoslavia a triumph of "people power" and "nonviolent" resistance, and he has been misreading such campaigns ever since.

Herman: Iran and Honduras in the Propaganda System: How the Left Climbed Aboard the Establishment's Bandwagon

Znet Article, December, 15 2010 Edward Herman
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As we stressed in both Part 1 and Part 2 of our "Iran and Honduras in the Propaganda System,"[1] there is no better test of the independence and integrity of the establishment U.S. media than in their comparative treatment of Iran and Honduras in ...

Herman: The Demolition of the Yugoslav Tribunal

Znet Article, December, 05 2010 Edward Herman
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This book is a devastating indictment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, showing clearly that the ICTY “does not behave according to the traditions of the rule of law”—it is a political rather than judicial instituti...

Herman: "Safari Journalism"

Znet Article, December, 04 2010 Edward Herman
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A main theme of John R. Schindler’s Unholy Terror... is that this misreading by the Muslim-managed “unreality community” of Western journalists, and the associated Western propaganda and policies, allowed al-Qaeda to make inroads into Western Eur...

Herman: John Laughland's Travesty: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic

Znet Article, December, 03 2010 Edward Herman
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Laughland’s Travesty focuses on “The Corruption of International Justice” displayed in the ICTY’s performance in the seizure and trial of Milosevic, but in the process the book covers most of the issues central to evaluating the Balkan wars and t...

Herman: Peter Brock's Media Cleansing: Dirty Reporting

Znet Article, December, 02 2010 Edward Herman
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This important and valuable book...focuses on the role of the media, which like the NATO powers and ICTY were “co-belligerents,” doing yeoman service in advancing the program of the individuals, groups and governments that wanted war. “Embedded”...

Herman: Michael Mandel on "How America Gets Away with Murder"

Znet Article, December, 01 2010 Edward Herman
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Michael Mandel’s How America Gets Away With Murder: Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage, and Crimes Against Humanity (Pluto: June 2004) is my favorite book of 2003-June 2004....The book is a perfect antidote to the “humanitarian intervention” claims ...

Herman: Diana Johnstone on the Balkan Wars

Znet Article, November, 30 2010 Edward Herman
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Diana Johnstone's Fools' Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusions (Monthly Review Press, 2002) is essential reading for anybody who wants to understand the causes, effects, and rights-and-wrongs of the Balkan wars of the past dozen years. T...

Herman: Paul Kagame: “Our Kind of Guy”

Znet Article, October, 05 2010 Edward Herman
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Back in 1995, a senior Clinton administration official, commenting on Indonesian President Suharto, then on a state visit to Washington, referred to him as “our kind of guy.”

Herman: A Critical U.S. Perspective on the Ordfront Controversy

Znet Article, January, 04 2010 Edward Herman
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I entered the Ordfront controversy as a critical student of propaganda and the manufacture of consent, and as a dissident analyst of the media's treatment of the Balkan wars.

Herman: Riding the "Green Wave" at the Campaign for Peace and Democracy and Beyond

Znet Article, July, 23 2009 Edward Herman
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There are many problems with the Campaign for Peace and Democracy's "Question & Answer on the Iran Crisis," issued by the CPD on July 7, and widely circulated since then.[1]

Herman: Poor Marlise: Her Old Allies Are Now Attacking the Tribunal and Even Portraying the Serbs as Victims

Znet Article, October, 29 2008 Edward Herman
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Marlise Simons, the New York Times’s main reporter on the Milosevic trial and International Criminal Trial for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), has had a difficult year. Perhaps most painful was the disclosure that in 1999 the Kosovo Albanian KLA se...

Herman: Rejoinder To Christopher Hitchens

Znet Article, August, 25 2008 Edward Herman
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In a "Rejoinder to Noam Chomsky" in early October, Christopher Hitchens put up two sentences regarding my own writing, as follows...

Herman: FOR Rationalization--Of Imperial Violence

Znet Article, August, 25 2008 Edward Herman
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Apparently Christopher Hitchens cannot understand that attacking supposed rationalizations for X may be de facto rationalizing for Y, as in his "Against Rationalization" (The Nation, Oct. 8). Thus, his furious attack on Osama bin Laden and the Tal...

Herman: The U.S. Aggression Process and Its Collaborators: From Guatemala (1950-1954) to Iran (2002-)

Znet Article, April, 24 2008 Edward Herman
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We are living in a very dangerous period in which a predatory superpower has embarked on a series of aggressive wars in rapid succession—three on two different continents during the past decade alone.

Herman: Principles of the Imperial New World Order

Znet Article, April, 20 2008 Edward Herman
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We have to recognize that in the Imperial New World Order (INWO), with the Soviet Union gone, and an aggressive and highly militarized United States projecting its great power across the globe, destabilizing and devastating in all its major areas ...

Herman: There Is No “War on Terror”

Znet Article, January, 17 2008 Edward Herman
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One of the most telling signs of the political naiveté of liberals and the Left in the United States has been their steadfast faith in much of the worldview that blankets the imperial state they call home.

Herman: Genocide Inflation is the Real Human Rights Threat: Yugoslavia and Rwanda

Znet Article, November, 28 2007 Edward Herman
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We have all heard about “genocide denial” and “holocaust denial” as very bad happenings that have focused attention, indignation, and concern to the point of laws passed to criminalize such behavior in Austria, Belgium, France, and elsewhere.

Herman: Responce to Zinn on Samantha Power

Znet Article, August, 27 2007 Edward Herman
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The cruise missile left also adheres closely to the party line on genocide, which is why its members thrive in the New York Times and other establishment vehicles. This is true of Paul Berman, Michael Ignatieff and David Rieff, but I will focus he...

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

Znet Article, March, 31 2007 Edward Herman
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Imagine that when Hitle...

Herman: Marlise Simons and the New York Times on the International Court of Justice Decision on Serbia and Genocide in Bosnia:

Znet Article, March, 12 2007 Edward Herman
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On many issues the New York Times serves as a propaganda organ of the state, latching onto a position that meets an ongoing state interest and then adhering undeviatingly to the party line that ensues. This was true...

Herman: Human Rights Watch in Service to the War Party: Including A Review of "Weighing the Evidence: Lessons from the Slobodan Milosevic Trial" (Human Rights Watch, December, 2006)

Znet Article, February, 25 2007 Edward Herman
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) came into existence in 1978 as the U.S. Helsinki Watch Committee.

Herman: Hegemony and Appeasement: Setting Up the Next U.S.-Israeli Target (Iran) For Another "Supreme International Crime" 1

Znet Article, January, 27 2007 Edward Herman
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