Edward S. Herman

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.

 

Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, The Politics of Genocide. Monthly Review Press 2010.

Edward S. Herman, Triumph of the Market: Essays on Economics, Politics, and the Media. South End Press 1995.



"Manufacturing Consent" 25 Years Later, Information Clearing House, 19 April 2013

Our Troops, Our War, and Our War Criminals, Z Magazine, April 2013

Steven Pinker on the Alleged Decline of Violence by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, ZNet, 2 December 2012

Reality Denial : Steven Pinker's Apologetics for Western-Imperial Volence by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, ZNet, 25 July 2012

“Manufacturing Consent” Pt 1, ZVideo, 3 July 2012

Deficits and Class Warfare, Z Magazine, July 2012

Ed Herman on "Humanitarian Imperialism", The Real News, 2 July 2012

Ed Herman, Co-Author of “Manufacturing Consent” Pt 1, The Real News, 1 July 2012

“My fight may be hopeless, but it is as necessary as ever” by David Peterson, ZBlogs, 25 May 2012

Stephen Pinker on "The Triumph of Angels", Z Magazine, March 2012

Neda Agha-Soltan versus Isis Obed Murillo: When Two Deaths Occur on Different Planets by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, NYTimes eXminer, 19 October 2011

George Monbiot and the Guardian on "Genocide Denial" and "Revisionism" by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, MR Zine, 2 September 2011

A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens by Media Lens, 2 August 2011

Reply to George Monbiot on "Genocide Belittling", ZNet, 19 July 2011

George Monbiot and the Anti-"Genocide Deniers" Brigade by David Peterson, ZNet, 19 July 2011

We're not genocide deniers. We just want to uncover the truth about Rwanda and Srebrenica by Edward Herman and David Peterson, The Guardian, 19 July 2011

Re: The Guardian finally publish a response from Ed Herman and David Peterson to George Monbiot by David Peterson, Media Lens, 19 July 2011

Monbiot's worst gaffe? by The Editors, Media Lens, 17 June 2011

Re: Do As We Say, Not As We Do Monbiot to MediaLens, 17 June 2011

Do As We Say, Not As We Do by George Monbiot, www.monbiot.com, 17 June 2011

Jonathan Cook responds on Monbiot, Media Lens, 14 June 2011

Monbiot's smear in the Guardian by The Editors, Media Lens, 14 June 2011

Left and libertarian right cohabit in the weird world of the genocide belittlers by George Monbiot, The Guardian, 13 June 2011

Reflections on the U.S. Counterrevolution by Edward Herman, Z Magazine, June 2011

Gilbert Achcar's Defense of Humanitarian Intervention, ZNet, 8 April 2011

"Our" Values and Interests Are Actually the Same Thing, Z Magazine, April 2011

Toward a Homeland "Favorable Climate of Investment", Z Magazine, March 2011

Srebrenica: The Star Witness, Z Magazine, January 2011

Media Disinformation: Washington´s "Regime Change Hit List": Iran versus Honduras, Part 1 by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, Global Research, 7 October 2010

The Politics of Genocide by Rick Rozoff, Z Magazine, September 2010

Srebrenica 15 Years After: The Politicization of "Genocide", MR Zine, 20 July 2010

Big Government, Budget Deficits, Entitlements and the “Centrist” Ploy, Information Clearing House, 30 March 2010

The Iran Threat in the Age of Real -Axis-of-Evil Expansion by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, MR Zine, 16 March 2010

Obama and the Steady Drift to the Right, Global Research, 3 March 2010

Chutzpah, Inc.: "The Brave People of Iran" (versus the Disappeared People of Palestine, Honduras, Afghanistan, Etc.) by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, MR Zine, 20 February 2010

The Oliver Kamm School of Falsification: Imperial Truth-Enforcement, British Branch by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, MR Zine, 22 January 2010

Open Letter to Amnesty International's London and Belfast Offices, on the Occasion of Noam Chomsky's Belfast Festival Lecture, October 30, 2009 by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, MR Zine, 22 November 2009

"Obama's Foreign Policy Report Card": Juan Cole Grades His President -- and Very Positively 
by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, MR Zine, 9 November 2009

The Responsibility to Protect, the International Criminal Court, and Foreign Policy in Focus : Subverting the UN Charter in the Name of Human Rights by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, MR Zine, 24 August 2009

Bailouts and Sellouts, Z Magazine, January 2009

Neoliberalism and Bottom-Line Morality, Z Magazine, 1 December 2008

Poor Marlise: Her Old Allies Are Now Attacking the Tribunal and Even Portraying the Serbs as Victims, ZNet, 30 October 2008

Russia, Georgia & the U.S.: A Double Standard in Action, Z Magazine, 1 October 2008

Jeremiah Wright in the Propaganda System by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, Monthly Review, September 2008

The Law of the Conservation of Violence, Z Magazine, 1 September 2008

Triumph of Lunacy, Z Magazine, 2 June 2008

Principles of the Imperial New World Order by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, ZNet, 21 April 2008

Neither Popular Government Nor Popular Information, Z Magazine, 1 March 2008

There Is No “War on Terror” by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, ZNet, 18 January 2008

 

Great and Little Satan Free to Aggress and Ethnically Cleanse-Their Targets Have No Right of Self Defense (or Any Other Right Questioned by the Satans)

ZNet, 16 December 2007 (This article is a premium sent to Sustainer Donors of Z/ZNet. To learn more, consult ZNet Sustainer Program)

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

ZNet, 25 November 2007

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

ZNet, 26 October 2007

The Dismantling of Yugoslavia: A Study in Inhumanitarian Intervention (and a Western Liberal-Left Intellectual and Moral Collapse) by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson

Monthly Review, October 2007

Responce to Zinn on Samantha Power

ZNet, 27 August 2007

How Market-Democracy Keeps the Public and "Populism" At Bay

ZNet, 13 August 2007 (This article is a premium sent to Sustainer Donors of Z/ZNet. To learn more, consult ZNet Sustainer Program)

Beyond Munich: The UN Security Council Helps Disarm a Prospective Further Victim of U.S. Aggression by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson

ZNet, 31 March 2007

Richard Holbrooke, Samantha Power, and the “Worthy-Genocide” Establishment

ZNet, 24 March 2007

Marlise Simons and the New York Times on the International Court of Justice Decision on Serbia and Genocide in Bosnia: A Further Study in Total Propaganda Service by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson

ZNet, 12 March 2007

Human Rights Watch in Service to the War Party by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson and George Szamuely

ZNet, 25 February 2007

Iraq: The Genocide Option

ZNet, January 24, 2007 (This article is a premium sent to Sustainer Donors of Z/ZNet. To learn more, consult ZNet Sustainer Program)

The Liberals Answer Tony Judt's “Useful Idiots” Charge

ZNet, 23 October 2006 (This article is a premium sent to Sustainer Donors of Z/ZNet. To learn more, consult ZNet Sustainer Program)

Torture, Moral Values, and Leadership of the Free World

Z Magazine, November 2006

The U.S. and Israel: Axis of Aggression, Torture, Death, & Devastation

Z Magazine, September 2006

Faith-Based Analysis

CounterPunch, 22 August 2006

Ethnic Cleansing: Constructive, Benign, and Nefarious (Kafka Era Studies, No. 1)

ZNet, 9 August 2006

U.S. Willing to Talk, With Conditions, and the Media Bites Once Again

ZNet, 10 June 2006 (This article is a premium sent to Sustainer Donors of Z/ZNet. To learn more, consult ZNet at http://www.zmag.org)

Milosevic's Death in the Propaganda System by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson

ZNet, 14 May 2006

US Aggression-Time Once Again: Target Iran by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson

CounterPunch, 11 May 2006

Uncle Chutzpah and His Willing Executioners on the Dire Iran Threat: With Twelve Principles of War Propaganda in Ongoing Service

ZNet, 15 March 2006

How the West and Free Press Have Accepted, Approved and Underwritten Israel’s Long-Term Ethnic Cleansing and Institutionalized Racism, In Violation of All Purported Enlightenment Values, and With Mind-Boggling Hypocrisy

Z Magazine/Selves and Others, 1 March 2006

Reflections On 2005 And The Future

Swans Commentary, 19 December 2005

Q/A on the Iraq War by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman and Anthony DiMaggio

ZNet, 29 November 2005

The Farce of the Bush Pursuit of Democracy Abroad--While Undermining It At Home

ZNet, 26 August 2005 (This article is a premium sent to Sustainer Donors of Z/ZNet. To learn more, consult ZNet at http://www.zmag.org)

The Politics of the Srebrenica Massacre

ZNet, 7 July 2005

From Ingsoc And Newspeak To Amcap, Amerigood, And Marketspeak

ZNet, 2 June 2005

The New York Times Supports Thought Control: The Massad Case

ZNet, 16 April 2005 (This article is a premium sent to Sustainer Donors of Z/ZNet. To learn more, consult ZNet at http://www.zmag.org)

The Normalization of Torture, Death Squads and Contempt for the Rule of Law

ZNet, 18 March 2005 (This article is a premium sent to Sustainer Donors of Z/ZNet. To learn more, consult ZNet at http://www.zmag.org)

The Election In Iraq: The U.S. Propaganda System Is Still Working In High Gear

ZNet, 13 February 2005

George Packer and the Liberal Struggle to Support Imperialism

ZNet, 28 January 2005 (This article is a premium sent to Sustainer Donors of Z/ZNet. To learn more, consult ZNet at http://www.zmag.org)

We Had To Destroy Fallujah in Order to Save It

ZNet, 8 November 2004 (This article is a premium sent to Sustainer Donors of Z/ZNet. To learn more, consult ZNet at http://www.zmag.org)

Little Versus Big Lies (and Structures Of Lies) by Edward Herman

ZNet, 20 May 2003

The Cruise Missile Left (part 5)

ZNet, 17 May 2004

Dasht-E Leili

ZNet, 7 April 2004 (This article is a premium sent to Sustainer Donors of Z/ZNet. To learn more, consult ZNet at http://www.zmag.org)

Coalition Of Joint Venture Looters?

ZNet, 20 September 2003 (This article is a premium sent to Sustainer Donors of Z/ZNet. To learn more, consult ZNet at http://www.zmag.org)

Rogues Have No Right To Self-defense

ZNet, 15 August 2003

My Very, Very Allergic Reaction To Brad Delong On Chomsky

ZNet, 24 July 2003

From Vietnam To Iraq

Swans, 28 April 2003

Uncle Chutzpah, On A Rampage

ZNet, 26 June 2003 (This article is a premium sent to Sustainer Donors of Z/ZNet. To learn more, consult ZNet at http://www.zmag.org)

The Manufactured And Real Iraq Crisis

ZNet, 3 February 2003

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