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Herman: THE GODFATHER AS "HONEST BROKER"
Mar 20, 2001
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 Amnesty Intern
Herman: THE MEDIA NORMALIZE A RIGHTWING COUP D'ETAT
Feb 08, 2001
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 awarded
Herman: THE PACIFICA COUNTERREVOLUTION HITS WBAI
Dec 30, 2000
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, mainstream
Hutchinson: Bush's Supreme Court
Dec 19, 2000
Nothing stirs greater terror among civil rights and womenÕs rights groups than the prospect of Bush making politically disastrous picks to the U.S. Supreme Court. During the presidential campaign, Jesse Jackson, NAACP President Kweisi Mfume, legions of
Hutchinson: Terror Over Bush’s Supreme Court Picks May Not Be Justified
Dec 19, 2000
Nothing stirs greater terror among civil rights and women’s rights groups than the prospect of Bush making politically disastrous picks to the U.S. Supreme Court. During the presidential campaign, Jesse Jackson, NAACP President Kweisi Mfume, legions of black Democratic officials, the leaders of NOW and the Fund For a Feminist Majority constantly dangled the nightmare vision of Bush dumping more judges such as Clarence Thomas and William Rehnquist on the high court. They rightly warned that these judges could wreak colossal damage on civil rights, and civil liberties protections and fulfill the long cherished dream of ultra-rightists to topple Roe vs. Wade.
Hightower: The Uncounted Majority
Dec 05, 2000
Not all computer errors involve vote counts in Florida. Writing in Funny Times, Richard Lederer tells about a computer glitch that caused the publisher of an economics report to have to issue an apology to subscribers: "Instead of the figures on the sales
Herman: LIBERAL APOLOGETICS FOR IMPERIALISM
Nov 21, 2000
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 best of tra
Herman: NADER, OR DISENFRAN-
Nov 11, 2000
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 public is gi
Herman: CENSORSHIP AS A PACIFICA MANAGEMENT TOOL
Nov 02, 2000
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 rules has
Herman: UNCLE CHUTZPAH AND HIS MEDIA MINIONS ON THE YUGOSLAV AND OTHER ELECTIONS
Sep 29, 2000
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 imperial
Hoodbhoy: THE MENACE OF EDUCATION
Sep 14, 2000
From brain size and hair colour to the shape and texture of toe-nails, every characteristic of an individual is totally determined by just two twisted strands of human DNA. A similar cultural DNA - a society's education system - contains within it the det
Herman: THE MONEY, MEDIA, AND LIBERAL-LEFT ROLE IN PLUTOCRATIC ELECTIONS
Sep 13, 2000
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," keepi
Herman: ROGUE REMOVAL AS OFFICIAL U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
Aug 11, 2000
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 force. They
Hightower: Three from Hightower
Jul 31, 2000
"The truth will come out. They are killing me tonight. They are murdering me." These were the final words of Gary Graham, number 135 on the list of death row inmates executed in rapid-fire order on the watch of George W. Bush, who has averaged one of t
Herman: THE HACK STRIKES AGAIN!: KRUGMAN ON NADER
Jul 29, 2000
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'," Z Magaz
Herman: THE NEW YORK TIMES VERSUS NADER--AND DEMOCRACY
Jul 07, 2000
In its editorial, "Mr. Nader's Misguided Crusade" (June 30), the New York Times assails Nader's candidacy and campaign on grounds that are partly fraudulent and misleading (as I describe below). But it is also clear that this attack is based ultimately on
Herman: KOSOVO ONE YEAR LATER: FROM SERB REPRESSION TO NATO-SPONSORED ETHNIC CLEANSING
Jun 23, 2000
Now a little more than one year after the ending of Nato's 78- day bombing of Yugoslavia and the beginning of Nato control of Kosovo (June 10-12, 1999), the mainstream media have been exceedingly reticent in offering the public serious retrospectives on t
Herman: WHAT IS LIBERALISM?
Jun 12, 2000
In a May 22 editorial in the liberal The American Prospect (TAP), which he edits along with Paul Starr, Robert Kuttner lauds radicals, for keeping moral demands to the fore and for pioneering on major issues that were central to democratic advance (as in
Hightower: HUNGER REPORT BITES BUSH ON BUTT
Jun 02, 2000
At the 1988 Democratic convention in Atlanta, I gave a podium-pounding speech in which I characterized George Bush the Elder as "a man who was born on third and thought he'd hit a triple."
Mar 24, 2001
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 speech thre