Edward S. Herman

A devastating expose of U.S. foreign policy which separates the myth of an "international terrorist conspiracy" from the reality.

A Powerful Assessment of How the U.S. Mass Media Fail to Provide the Kind of Information That We Need to Understand the WorldIn this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order.Based on a series of case studies—including the media’s dichotomous treatment of “worthy” versus “unworthy” victims, “legitimizing” and “meaningless” Third World elections, and devastating critiques of media coverage of the U.S. wars against Indochina—Herman and Chomsky draw on decades of criticism and research to propose a Propaganda Model to explain the media’s behavior and performance. Their new introduction updates the Propaganda Model and the earlier case studies, and it discusses several other applications. These include the manner in which the media covered the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement and subsequent Mexican financial meltdown of 1994-1995, the media’s handling of the protests against the World Trade Organization, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund in 1999 and 2000, and the media’s treatment of the chemical industry and its regulation. What emerges from this work is a powerful assessment of how propagandistic the U.S. mass media are, how they systematically fail to live up to their self-image as providers of the kind of information that people need to make sense of the world, and how we can understand their function in a radically new way.

In this impressive book, Edward S. Herman and David Peterson examine the uses and abuses of the word genocide. They argue persuasively that the label is highly politicized and that in the United States it is used by the government, journalists, and academics to brand as evil those nations and political movements that in one way or another interfere with the imperial interests of U.S. capitalism. Thus the word genocide is seldom applied when the perpetrators are U.S. allies (or even the United States itself), while it is used almost indiscriminately when murders are committed or are alleged to have been committed by enemies of the United States and U.S. business interests. One set of rules applies to cases such as U.S. aggression in Vietnam, Israeli oppression of Palestinians, Indonesian slaughter of so-called communists and the people of East Timor, U.S. bombings in Serbia and Kosovo, the U.S. war of liberation in Iraq, and mass murders committed by U.S. allies in Rwanda and the Republic of Congo. Another set applies to cases such as Serbian aggression in Kosovo and Bosnia, killings carried out by U.S. enemies in Rwanda and Darfur, Saddam Hussein, any and all actions by Iran, and a host of others.With its careful and voluminous documentation, close reading of the U.S. media and political and scholarly writing on the subject, and clear and incisive charts, The Politics of Genocide is both a damning condemnation and stunning expose of a deeply rooted and effective system of propaganda aimed at deceiving the population while promoting the expansion of a cruel and heartless imperial system."

The Rwandan genocide of 1994 has been called the “fastest, most efficient killing spree of the twentieth century. In 100 days, some 800,000 Tutsi and politically moderate Hutu were murdered. The United States did almost nothing to try to stop it” (U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, writing in 2002). In their book, Enduring Lies: The Rwandan Genocide in the Propaganda System, 20 Year Later (The Real News Books), Edward S. Herman and David Peterson challenge these beliefs. With sections devoted to “The ‘Rwandan Genocide’ by the Numbers,” the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front’s October 1990 invasion of Rwanda from Uganda and Paul Kagame’s ensuing 46-month war of conquest, the April 6, 1994 shoot-down of the Hutu President Juvénal Habyarimana’s jet on its return to Kigali, universally regarded as the event that triggered the mass bloodshed which followed, the mythical Hutu “conspiracy to commit genocide” against the country’s minority Tutsi population, the West’s alleged “failure to intervene” to stop the killings, Kagame Power’s triumph in Rwanda and its spread to the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, with a death toll running in the millions, and to the pernicious role played by the U.S., U.K., and Canadian governments, as well as by the United Nations, human rights groups, the media and intellectuals in promulgating a false history of 1994 Rwanda, the authors cross-examine what they call the “standard model” of the Rwandan genocide. “A brilliant dissection of the Western propaganda system on Rwanda,” writes Christopher Black, a Canadian attorney and the lead defense counsel before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

Herman shows how the "triumph" of the market in the post-Cold War world order means the further commodifications of culture, atrophying of political debate and political options, greater subservience of the media to state and corporate interests, and global polarization of income, wealth, and power.

This spirited book offers examples of duplicitous terminology, trenchant essays, satirical cartoons, and a cross-referenced doublespeak dictionary for the 1990s.

The Myth of the Liberal Media contends that the mainstream media are parts of a market system and that their performance is shaped primarily by proprietor/owner and advertiser interests. Using a propaganda model, it is argued that the commercial media protect and propagandize for the corporate system. Case studies of major media institutions―the New York Times , the Wall Street Journal , the Philadelphia Inquirer ―are supplemented by detailed analyses of "word tricks and propaganda" and the media's treatment of topics such as Third World elections, the Persian Gulf War, the North American Free Trade Agreement, the fall of Suharto, and corporate junk science.

This text describes in detail the recent rapid growth and crossborder activities and linkages of an industry of large global media conglomerates. It also assesses the significance of the ongoing deregulation and convergence of the global media and telecommunications systems and the rise of the Internet. The authors argue that the most important features of this globalization process are the implantation, consolidation and concentration of an advertisement-based commercial media and parallel weakening of public broadcasting systems worldwide, with negative consequences on the public sphere.

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Deep and detailed research into the workings of corporate enables Professor Herman to throw considerable light on how the board of directors operates, how important outside directors are, how new members are selected, and how multiple directorships interlock the large corporations. Throughout the book the author contrasts the power of the managers with that of other interest groups - bankers, family - and he concludes that power lies with the managers. But this has not changed the basic objectives of the corporation - the pursuit of growth and profits - nor has it enhanced social responsibility. After thorough investigation Edward Herman concludes that government regulation has done surprisingly little to reduce the autonomy of the corporation. Just as the influence of bankers and investors has been resisted, so has the effect of regulation. Improved communications and controls, geographic dispersion, and the enhanced adaptability and mobility of the large corporation have all played a part in maintaining corporate power and managerial control. Corporate Control, Corporate Power will be essential reading for executives, policy makers, regulators, and all those concerned to make the corporation more responsible and accountable.

One of the most telling signs of the political naiveté of lib-erals and the Left in the United States has been theirsteadfast faith in much of the worldview that blan-kets the imperial state they call home. Nowhere hasthis critical failure been more evident than in theiracceptance of the premise that there really is some-thing called a “war on terror” or “terrorism”[1] – how-ever poorly managed its critics make it out to be – andthat righting the course of this war ought to be this country’s(and the world’s) top foreign policy priority. In this perspective, Afghanistan andPakistan rather than Iraq ought to have been the war on terror’s proper foci; mostaccept that the U.S. attack on Afghanistan from October 2001 on was a legitimateand necessary stage in the war. The tragic error of the Bush Administration, in thisview, was that it lost sight of this priority, and diverted U.S. military action to Iraqand other theaters, reducing the commitment where it was needed.

Argues that the U.S. uses free elections as a public relations tool for its foreign policy

Depuis la fin de la guerre froide, les termes "massacre", "bain de sang" et "gnocide" ont massivement fait irruption dans le vocabulaire des relations internationales. Ils sont devenus essentiels la justification des interventions militaires occidentales, que ce soit au Kosovo, en Bosnie-Herzgovine, en Irak ou en Libye. En politique, rappellent Edward S. Hermon et David Peterson, les mots ne sont pas innocents. Le sens qu'on leur donne est fonction des buts que l'on poursuit et des intrts que l'on dfend. En tudiant de manire rigoureuse l'usage de ces trois termes dans les discours officiels et les mdias, les auteurs dmontrent qu'ils sont principalement utiliss pour qualifier les agissements de pays qui, d'une manire ou d'une autre, sont en conflit d'intrts avec les Etats-Unis. Trs rare est leur usage pour parler des exactions commises par ces derniers et leurs allis. Que faut-il en conclure Qu'en plus de leur prcision chirurgicale, les missiles amricains ont la facult de juger du bien pour ne s'attaquer qu' l'infme, au vil, ou nfaste Ou alors, que la "responsabilit de protger", voque pour justifier les interventions militaires vocation "humanitaire" de l'Occident, n'est que le nouvel emblme d'un imprialisme plus vigoureux que jamais

In this collection, no fewer than 30 of Edward S. Herman and David Peterson’s essays in the critique of the “Art of Deceit” spanning a period of close to 20 years have been published together in one volume for the first time. They bring impressive levels of skepticism and scholarship to bear on the often hidden-in plain-sight systems of false belief (or ideologies) that rule both intellectual and popular culture. They cover the real as opposed to the ideological uses of the word ‘terrorism’; the long-term U.S. and media misrepresentations of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Honduras, the former Yugoslavia, and Rwanda; the warmongering work of the late writer Christopher Hitchens, as well as the multiple systematic falsehoods of the “New Humanitarians,” who shared a penchant for advocating War in the name of Peace and Human Rights. As long-time Herman collaborator Noam Chomsky remarked, the result constitutes “A real triumph.” This collection demands to be read and studied closely and carefully. “This collection of essays and articles by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson is some of the finest media analysis I have ever read. Herman is mandatory reading for anyone serious about news media analysis, and in Peterson he has a worthy collaborator. This book is also a compendium of the great global political struggles of the past three decades. For media critics and political observers alike, this is a book worth reading and keeping around as an invaluable reference book. It is Herman and Peterson at their best.”– ROBERT W. McCHESNEY, Gutgsell Endowed Professor,Department of Communications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign“As humanity owes Hannah Arendt for the courage of her pen, so we owe Edward Herman for a lifetime’s revelations of the banality of evil in our midst. This extraordinary collection with David Peterson is a truth teller’s guide.”– JOHN PILGER, journalist, war correspondent,film-maker and author of Freedom Next Resisting the Empire“A forensic demolition of the corporate media which is saturated with propaganda serving elite and oppressive state-corporate interests that are now actually threatening human survival in an age of climate chaos. This is a truly indispensable book.”– DAVID CROMWELL, Co-Editor, Media Lens“The greatest political writing partnership since Herman and Chomsky, Herman and Peterson are a crucial antidote to the extremist corporate media system sometimes described as ‘mainstream’. At close to 900 pages, Like A Cuttlefish Spurting Out Ink, is a treasure trove of razor-sharp but ultimately compassionate analysis derailing the deceptions that keep the West’s Perpetual War machine on track and killing with impunity. Don’t miss it.” – DAVID EDWARDS, Co-Editor, Media LensEdward S. Herman (1925-2017) was professor of finance at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and wrote extensively on economics, political economy, and the media. Among his books were Corporate Control, Corporate Power (Cambridge University Press, 1981), The Real Terror Network (South End Press, 1982), and, with Noam Chomsky, the two-volume The Political Economy of Human Rights (South End Press, 1979; Haymarket Books, 2014), and Manufacturing Consent (Pantheon, 2nd. Ed., 2002). David Peterson is an independent journalist and researcher based in Chicago. Together, they were coauthors of The Politics of Genocide (Monthly Review Press, 2nd. Ed., 2011), and Enduring The Rwandan Genocide in the Propaganda System, 20 Years Later (The Real News Books, 2014).

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