Edward S. Herman

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Edward S. Herman : biography

7 April 1925 –

Edward S. Herman (born April 7, 1925) is an American economist and media analyst with a specialty in corporate and regulatory issues as well as political economy and the media. He is Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also teaches at Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

Srebrenica and other atrocities

Herman has written about the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in articles such as "The Politics of the Srebrenica Massacre",Edward Herman , Znet, 7 July 2005 Herman writes: "the evidence for a massacre, certainly of one in which 8,000 men and boys were executed, has always been problematic, to say the least" and "the ‘Srebrenica massacre’ is the greatest triumph of propaganda to emerge from the Balkan wars… the link of this propaganda triumph to truth and justice is non-existent". He criticized the validity of the term genocide in the case of Srebrenica, pointing out inconsistencies for the case of organized extermination such as the Bosnian Serb Army bussing of Muslim woman and children out of Srebrenica. Herman has established the Srebrenica Research Group, in the words of historian Marko Attila Hoare, "to propagate the view that the Srebrenica massacre never happened".Marko Attila Hoare , FrontPage magazine, 23 November 2005

In The Politics of Genocide, (co-authored with David Peterson, 2010) Herman argues that some genocides such as Kosovo and Rwanda in 1994 have been heavily publicized in the West to advance a specific economic agenda, eventually leading to a minority controlled government of pro-Western and pro-business Tutsi, while other genocides, such as in East Timor, have been largely ignored for the same reason. Herman and Peterson wrote that the Western establishment has "swallowed a propaganda line on Rwanda that turned perpetrator and victim upside-down….the great majority of deaths were Hutu, with some estimates as high as two million".Herman and Peterson (2010), The Politics of Genocide, Monthly Review Press, p. 51, 58. According to Africa specialist Gerald Caplan in 2010 "why the Hutu members of the government ‘couldn’t possibly have planned a genocide against the Tutsi’ is never remotely explained".Gerald Caplan , Pambazuka News, #486, 16 June 2010

The book was commended on the cover by the Australian journalist John Pilger, who wrote: "In this brilliant exposé of great power’s lethal industry of lies, [the authors] defend the right of us all to a truthful historical memory."George Monbiot , The Guardian, 13 June 2011. Herman and Peterson responded to Monbiot in The Guardian, 19 July 2011. The original versions of their submitted texts are Herman’s , Znet, 19 July 2011 and Peterson’s , Znet, 19 July 2011 The academic Martin Shaw has written: "For scholars of genocide studies, this book is rich source-material. It is not a serious contribution to analysis in the interest of ‘truthful historical memory’".Martin Shaw , OpenDemocracy, 16 September 2010 Herman’s position, though, has been defended by the editors of Media Lens, the British media analysis website.Edwards and Cromwell , Media Lens, 2 August 2011

Herman’s position on the Srebrenica massacre has been criticized, in addition to Shaw and Marko Attila Hoare, by John Feffer, George Monbiot. and Oliver Kamm.Oliver Kamm The Times (blog), 6 February 2013 Herman and Peterson’s position on the Rwandan genocide was found "deplorable" by James Wizeye, first secretary at the Rwandan High Commission in London.James Wizeye The Guardian, 25 July 2011 Gerald Caplan, Adam Jones,Adam Jones , Genocide Protection News, #11, Fall 2012 and Oliver Kamm have all compared Herman and Peterson’s approach to Holocaust denial.

Books

  • 1968: Principles And Practices Of Money And Banking
  • 1968: The Great Society Dictionary
  • 1970: Atrocities in Vietnam
  • 1973: Counter-Revolutionary Violence – Bloodbaths in Fact & Propaganda (with Noam Chomsky)
  • 1979: The Political Economy of Human Rights, Volume I: The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism (with Noam Chomsky)
  • 1979: The Political Economy of Human Rights, Volume II: After the Cataclysm: Postwar Indochina and the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (with Noam Chomsky)
  • 1981: Corporate Control, Corporate Power: A Twentieth Century Fund Study
  • 1982: The Real Terror Network
  • 1984: Demonstration Elections (with Frank Brodhead)
  • 1986: The Rise and Fall of the Bulgarian Connection (with Frank Brodhead). ISBN 0-940380-06-4.
  • 1988: Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (with Noam Chomsky)
  • 1990: The "Terrorism" Industry ISBN 978-0-679-72559-6
  • 1992: Beyond hypocrisy : decoding the news in an age of propaganda : including A doublespeak dictionary for the 1990s ISBN 0-89608-436-1
  • 1995: Triumph of the Market
  • 1997: The Global Media (with Robert McChesney) ISBN 0-304-33433-2
  • 1999: The Myth of The Liberal Media: An Edward Herman Reader
  • 2010: The Politics of Genocide (with David Peterson) ISBN 978-1-58367-212-9