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Herman: U.S. Aggression-Time Once Again
Znet Article, May, 13 2006
Edward Herman
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With the United States having initiated wars in violation of the UN Charter, and hence engaged in the "supreme international crime,"1 against Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Iraq in 1999, 2001, and 2003, one might have expected that its commencement ...
Herman: Uncle Chutzpah and His Willing Executioners on the Dire Iran Threat: With Twelve Principles of War Propaganda in Ongoing Service
Znet Article, March, 15 2006
Edward Herman
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Back at the time of a major Bush-1 "drug war" in 1989, Hodding Carter pointed out that with increasing attention to the newly declared "crisis" by the administration and media, the public's estimate of the importance of the drug problem rose spect...
Herman: Morality's Avenging Angels
Znet Article, August, 30 2005
Edward Herman
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Operation Allied Force was not a moral venture. It was, however, carried out in the name of an humanitarian action on behalf of the Kosovo Albanians, and it won support in the NATO-bloc countries by a widespread belief in the authenticity of its ...
Herman: Reply to Stela Rajic:
Znet Article, July, 24 2005
Edward Herman
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Stela Rajic and her family were clearly victims of serious abuse and injustice, but this experience has crippled her ability to look at the issues with any objectivity. She says that “nothing is black and white,†and that â€...
Herman: Bill Weinberg supports the onset of World War IV
Znet Article, July, 19 2005
Edward Herman
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[Note: Weinberg put a very similar version of this critique on his World War 4 web site, which I answered with the reply I reproduce here with only minor bracketed changes that reflect his occasional shifts. But as I noted in my initial reply, I...
Herman: Reply to Roger Lippman
Znet Article, July, 18 2005
Edward Herman
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In an earlier round with Roger Lippman, he accused me of falsely claiming that the State Department had declared 500,000 missing in Kosovo, a charge with I answered by quoting from a State Department press release. Here is my earlier reply on the...
Herman: Reply to Julie Wornan
Znet Article, July, 18 2005
Edward Herman
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Julie Wornan wisely does not attempt to refute my “allegations.†Instead she works by an appeal to authority, and by an attack on what she reads as my “methods.†On authority, she mentions the Red Cross, Amnesty I...
Herman: The Politics of the Srebrenica Massacre*
Znet Article, July, 07 2005
Edward Herman
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"Srebrenica" has become the symbol of evil, and specifically Serb evil. It is commonly described as "a horror without parallel in the history of Europe since the Second World War" in which there was a cold-blooded execution "of at least 8,000 Musl...
Herman: From Ingsoc And Newspeak To Amcap, Amerigood, And Marketspeak
Znet Article, June, 02 2005
Edward Herman
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(This is a chapter in a just published book, edited by Abbott Gleason, Jack Goldsmith and Martha G. Nussbaum, On Nineteen Eighty-Four: Orwell and Our Future, Princeton University Press, 2005, based on a conference on Orwell in 1999) Although 1984...
Herman: Daniel Okrent's Revealing Closeout as Public Editor of the New York Times
Znet Article, May, 24 2005
Edward Herman
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In his final column as Public Editor of the New York Times, Daniel Okrent discusses "13 Things I Meant to Write About but Never Did" (May 22, 2005). His list is interesting for what it tells about Okrent's biases, and indirectly those of his boss...
Herman: The Election In Iraq:
Znet Article, February, 13 2005
Edward Herman
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The Earlier Demonstration Elections In our 1984 book Demonstration Elections: U.S.-Staged Elections In The Dominican Republic, Vietnam, and El Salvador, Frank Brodhead and I stressed that such elections were mainly designed to placate (and misle...
Herman: War Crimes Reply
Znet Article, May, 24 2004
Edward Herman
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None of my alleged "misstatements" are misstatements, as I will try to show with brevity, with only the reply on Racak at all extensive. Roger Lippman is a protagonist in the Balkan wars, his role b...
Herman: The Cruise Missile Left (part 5):
Znet Article, May, 17 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,...
Herman: My Very, Very Allergic Reaction To Brad Delong On Chomsky
Znet Article, July, 24 2003
Edward Herman
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In his "Thoughts" on Chomsky, under the title "My Very,Very Allergic Reaction to Noam Chomsky: Khmer Rouge, Faurisson, Milosevic," Brad DeLong is long on name call...
Herman: Road Map
Znet Article, July, 05 2003
Edward Herman
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There are three words or phrases that are not permissible in the U.S. mainstream media in application to the Israel-Palestine conflict: racism, ethnic cleansing and international law. This follows from the deep, deep bias of the media favoring Isr...
Herman: Road Map To Sustainable Ethnic Cleansing
Znet Article, July, 05 2003
Edward Herman
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There are three words or phrases that are not permissible in the U.S. mainstream media in application to the Israel-Palestine conflict: racism, ethnic cleansing and international law. This follows from the deep, deep bias of the media favoring Isr...
Herman: Propaganda in the Free Press
Znet Article, May, 03 2003
Edward Herman
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Ed Herman, Professor Emeritus at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, co-authored the landmark book Manufacturing Consent with Noam Chomsky. He's authored many other books including: The Real Terror Network, The Washington Connection an...
Herman: From Vietnam To Iraq
Znet Article, April, 30 2003
Edward Herman
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There are, of course, important differences between the US invasions of Vietnam and Iraq. In Vietnam, from 1954 and till 1965 the United States simply tried to impose an imported puppet government on a populace that supported a deeply-rooted commu...
Herman: A
Znet Article, April, 05 2003
Edward Herman
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David Ross: In The Real Terror Network (1982), you documented how the U.S. government did not support democracy around the world as we've all been taught, but instead, supported totalitarian states that would insure a good climate for investment.....
Herman: War-makers, Bribees, And Poodles Versus Democracy
Znet Article, February, 18 2003
Edward Herman
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One of the most dramatic features of the Bush-Blair drive to war--actually, "massacre" given the imbalance of forces-- has been the split and struggle between governments and their citizenry. It might be argued that this ongoing struggle demonstra...
Herman: Further Reply To Michael Berube
Znet Article, December, 12 2002
Edward Herman
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I owe an apology to Michael Berube on the point of the title to his article in the Chronicle, although I do believe the title does convey a true picture of its tone and message. He is lecturing to the antiwar movement, and he does call for its gre...
Herman: Much More Severe Problems On The Cruise Missile Left
Znet Article, December, 09 2002
Edward Herman
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I am happy to have this opportunity to reply to Michael Berube, partly because it will allow me to introduce Z Net readers to his article "Toward an Ideal Antiwar Movement: Mature, Legitimate, and Popular," in The Chronicle of Higher Education of ...
Herman: Answering The Cruise MIssile Left On Iraq
Znet Article, December, 09 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 ...
Herman: Anti-Semitism
Znet Article, November, 25 2002
Edward Herman
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Palestinians are "Semites," but the word antisemitism is never applied to prejudice against them, only to Jews. The restriction on the application to Jews, and failure to use it in reference to Palestinians, continues in the face of the fact that ...
Herman: Christopher Hitchens And The Uses Of Demagoguery
Znet Article, September, 22 2002
Edward Herman
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In his latest phase as flack for the war party, Christopher Hitchens has taken on some of the qualities of his leader George W. Bush. A notable similarity is in his demagogic statement of the issues "we" face since 9/11--in W's words, an "evil" en...
Herman: Susan Douglas, And The Nation, On Pacifica
Znet Article, April, 15 2002
Edward Herman
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The Nation magazine has had a serious conflict of interest in reporting on the Pacifica struggle. During the reign of the old Pacifica management, the magazine had its own program on Pacifica's Los Angeles station KPFK, with the program run by Con...
Herman: Axis Of Evil-- In Washington D.C.
Znet Article, March, 16 2002
Edward Herman
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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...
