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- Friday, Jan 01, 2010
ZMag Article Real terror networks and coup ratifications -
- Tuesday, Sep 01, 2009
ZMag Article The selective memory of the paper of record as regards Afghanistan -
- Wednesday, Jul 01, 2009
ZMag Article Bending rearward in service to the right wing -
- Monday, Jun 01, 2009
ZMag Article A weak outcry for corporate regulations and reform -
- Friday, May 01, 2009
ZMag Article Party line media filtering of terror acts (ours & theirs) -
- Wednesday, Apr 01, 2009
ZMag Article The convoluted language of power and its elite apologists -
- Sunday, Mar 01, 2009
ZMag Article Bottomless hypocrisy and lies from the U.S. on Israel-Gaza -
- Sunday, Feb 01, 2009
ZMag Article NATO's expanding threat to global peace and security -
- Wednesday, Jan 07, 2009
ZMag Article Economic resources rushing to the aid of the "big boys" -
- Sunday, Jan 04, 2009
Video The history of US influence in Latin America and anti-democratic US policy throughout the Global South. -
- Monday, Dec 01, 2008
ZMag Article Edward S. Herman on Greenspan, Rubin, and the Party of Davos. -
- Saturday, Nov 01, 2008
ZMag Article Edward S. Herman on the threats of normalizing war. -
- Wednesday, Oct 29, 2008
ZNet Article 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 sent as many as 300 captive Serbs to Albanian to be killed and their internal organs “harvested” for sale abroad, a matter barely mentioned in the New York Times (see below). I was sorely tempted to write to Marlise Simons and offer her my sympathies: “Marlise, if only the villains in this case were Serbs, what a fine front page article you could have had here!” -
- Wednesday, Oct 01, 2008
ZMag Article Edward S. Herman on some amazing Orwellian claims. -
- Monday, Sep 01, 2008
ZMag Article Edward S. Herman on a militarized America.
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- Monday, Aug 25, 2008
ZNet Article In a "Rejoinder to Noam Chomsky" in early October, Christopher Hitchens put up two sentences regarding my own writing, as follows...   ZNet Article 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 Taliban, and their alleged leftist apologists, in this article, and his even more frenzied assault on these same villains in his Nation web page piece "Of Sin, the Left, and Islamic Fascism" (Sept. 24, but in response to criticisms of his Oct. 8 article), were a key part of his own arsenal of rationalizations for support of U.S. action to rid the world of these devils. In fact, in a remarkable new line of thought, Hitchens instructs the left that it should be regularly supporting U.S. and NATO cleansing actions when they are rectifying matters they screwed up in the past--if "we" did wrong earlier "does this not double or triple our responsibility to remove them from power?...Do 'our' past crimes and sins make it impossible to expiate the offense by determined action?" What leftist would express this faith in the imperial powers to straighten things out by violence? What person in command of common sense would suggest that those who have regularly committed crimes for self-interested motives are likely now to serve as proper instruments of humanitarian ends? But this tells us, along with other features of these latest effusions, that Hitchens has abandoned the left and is rushing toward the vital center, maybe further to the right, with termination point still to be determined. -
- Tuesday, Jul 01, 2008
ZMag Article A recent book by Michael Vickery, Cambodia: A Political Survey, dramatizes once again the fantastic double standard that operates in cases of cross-border attacks by the weak, and U.S. targets, and the strong, especially the United States. -
- Monday, Jun 02, 2008
ZMag Article 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. -
- Thursday, Apr 24, 2008
ZNet Article 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. -
- Sunday, Apr 20, 2008
ZNet Article 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 of operation in the alleged interest of liberation and stability, a revised set of principles should be discernible. -
- Wednesday, Apr 02, 2008
ZMag Article 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. -
- Saturday, Mar 01, 2008
ZMag Article 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 and McChesney’s valuable book on the U.S. media, Tragedy and Farce). -
- Friday, Feb 01, 2008
ZMag Article 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 anticipated declaration of independence by the Kosovo Albanians. -
- Thursday, Jan 17, 2008
ZNet Article 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. -
- Tuesday, Jan 01, 2008
ZMag Article 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. -
- Sunday, Dec 16, 2007
 Commentary In the discussions about Iran among the leaders in the "international community," their expressed dire fears about Iran and its nuclear program never cause them to raise any questions about Israel's nuclear program, even though it is well known that Israel not only has a "program" but has several hundred nuclear weapons, built in secret but with U.S., French, and British aid, and of course done outside the authority of the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT) designed to prevent proliferation. Israel's acquisition of this arsenal is obviously disturbing to its Arab neighbors, who are placed at a great military disadvantage by this violation of NPT principles--and equity--accepted and even facilitated by Israel's Western allies. To see those Western allies greatly agitated over the possibility that Iran might have a nuclear program that at some future date would allow it to produce such weapons, while taking Israel's arsenal as a given not even worthy of mention, reflects a gross political double standard that is both racist and illustrative of that famous "clash of civilizations," with the clash coming from Western initiatives, actions and threats. -
- Saturday, Dec 01, 2007
 ZMag Article 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 will restore its reputation on spending restraint.” Huffington asks how this can be when Bush has bloated the budget by 50 percent and has promoted a war that will cost over a trillion dollars? Huffington is wrong on this. She fails to recognize that in this militarized society that specializes in wars of choice, and with the establishment, including the media, highly protective of the military budget, the military budget is put into an entirely separate class whose expenses are acceptably open-ended and concern over waste and literal theft is muted. So the word “restraint” jars when talking about the military budget, and conveys intimations of disregard for “national security,” which is being protected as our armed forces fight pacification wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, threaten Iran, and stand guard in scores of bases across the globe. -
- Thursday, Nov 01, 2007
ZMag Article 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 of the Shah of Iran in 1955 by Columbia University President Grayson Kirk (and by the media). -
- Friday, Oct 12, 2007
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Edward S. Herman is a Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He has written extensively on economics, political economy, foreign policy, and media analysis. Among his books are The Political Economy of Human Rights (2 vols, with Noam Chomsky, South End Press, 1979); Corporate Control, Corporate Power (Cambridge University Press, 1981); The "Terrorism" Industry (with Gerry O'Sullivan, Pantheon, 1990); The Myth of the Liberal Media: An Edward Herman Reader (Peter Lang, 1999); and Manufacturing Consent (with Noam Chomsky, Pantheon, 1988 and 2002). In addition to his regular "Fog Watch" column in Z Magazine, he edits a web site, inkywatch.org, that monitors the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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