Noam Chomsky

Edward S. Herman

An intellectual dissection of the modern media to show how an underlying economics of publishing warps the news.

The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Manufacturing Consent

Rızanın İmalatı

David Peterson

"In this brilliant expose of great power's lethal industry of lies, Edward Herman and David Peterson defend the right of us all to a truthful historical memory."-JOHN PILGER, journalist and filmmaker "Why so much talk in recent years about 'genocide' as a major threat? Perhaps because, while extremely rare, genocide represents an intentional evil in comparison to which the far more frequent massacres committed by 'our' side fade into innocent blunders. Herman and Peterson describe the double standards used to distinguish evil `genocide' from the slaughter wrought by the United States and its allies as mere collateral damage."-DIANA JOHNSTONE, author of Fools' Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO, and Western Delusions "Concise and devastating, this book turns the media wallpaper inside-out, debunking the most sacred conceits while showing us the intellectual and moral rot of Washington's political structures. Herman and Peterson will make readers yearn for a political culture that embraces a single standard of human rights instead of selectively wielding such words as 'massacre' and 'genocide.'"-NORMAN SOLOMON, author of War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death

The Politics of Genocide

Frank Brodhead

U.S.-staged Elections in the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, and El Salvador

Demonstration Elections

The Rise and Fall of the Bulgarian Connection

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 Juv�nal 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.

The Rwandan Genocide in the Propaganda System, 20 Years Later

Enduring Lies

Dopo il cataclisma. L'Indocina del dopoguerra e la ricostruzione dell'ideologia imperiale

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

Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda

The Real Terror Network

Se dice que Noam Chomsky escribió su primer artículo -en defensa de la República española- a los once años de edad. Desde entonces, el gran lingüísta norteamericano no ha dejado de combatir por la libertad y la verdad y se ha convertido en la conciencia del mundo del desarrollo en tiempos de conformismo y confusión. Cuando se publicó este libro, escrito con el profesor Edward S. Herman, se produjo un verdadero escándalo porque en él se denunciaba la manipulación de las gentes a través de la prensa, la radio y la televisión, y se atrevía a hacer preguntas incómodas (y lo que era peor ¡a dar respuestas!) que hoy siguen plenamente vigentes: ¿Cómo se construye la verdad oficial? ¿Cómo se manipulan los datos para que puedan ser interpretados de modo que favorezcan los intereses de los poderosos? ¿De verdad es libre la prensa en nuestras sociedades desarrolladas y democráticas?

propaganda, desinformación y consenso en los medios de comunicación de masas

Los guardianes de la libertad

Volume two of the influential study of US foreign policy during the Cold War—and the media’s manipulative coverage—by the authors of Manufacturing Consent. First published in 1979, Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman’s two-volume work, The Political Economy of Human Rights, is a devastating analysis of the United States government’s suppression of human rights and support of authoritarianism in Asia, Africa and Latin America during the 1960s and 70s. Still one of the most comprehensive studies of the subject, it demonstrates how government obscured its role in torture, murder and totalitarianism abroad with the aid of the news media. In the first volume, Chomsky and Herman focus on US terror in Indochina. In volume two, After the Cataclysm, the authors examine the immediate aftermath of those actions, with special focus on the Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia. Throughout, the authors track the media response to the US interventions—a mixture of willful silence and Orwellian misrepresentation.

Postwar Indochina and the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology

After the Cataclysm

Using a propaganda model, The Myth of the Liberal Media contends that the mainstream media are parts of a market system, are shaped primarily by proprietor/owner and advertiser interests, and protect and propagandize for the corporate system.

An Edward Herman Reader

The Myth of the Liberal Media

The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism

Michael Barratt Brown

The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic

Philip Hammond

'Required reading for anyone wishing to understand the war and the media's role in it.' --The New Internationalist

The Media and the Kosovo Crisis

Degraded Capability

Dissects the aftermath of the war in Southeast Asia, the refugee problem, the Vietnam/Cambodia conflict and the Pol Pot regime.

Edward S. Herman

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