#edwardherman — Public Fediverse posts
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>With Trump soon back in the White House, and people like Orbán cheering him on from the sidelines, can the hard right bring the media to heel?
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>In the past the answer would have been a speedy no. The United States has major constitutional protections of First Amendment rights, and a strong commitment to freedom of the press.The "mainstream media" *is* right wing. All of it. Perhaps not as far right wing as Trump would like, but *all* of it is right wing. If I could choose only one book to require every American to read, it would be Inventing Reality by Michael Parenti.
#InventingReality #MichaelParenti #ManufacturingConsent #EdwardHerman #NoamChomsky
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>There will be people who say, “Hey, you work for a company and that company has the right to expect employees to adhere to what’s good for the company”. That’s true except we’re talking about news organizations that have public obligations and who are obliged to nurture a free press in a democracy. Owners of such press organizations are responsible for safeguarding that free press— and trying to get in the good graces of an autocrat-in-waiting will only result in undermining that free press.
Under capitalism, news organizations have no such "public obligations" and are absolutely not "obliged to nurture a free press in a democracy." They are doing what they are designed to do: Invent Reality (or, if you prefer, Manufacture Consent).
I honestly think that reading Inventing Reality, by Michael Parenti, should be a prerequisite to working in journalism:
#capitalism #socialism #communism #marxism #MichaelParenti #InventingReality #EdwardHerman #NoamChomsky #ManufacturingConsent #MainstreamMedia #wapo #WashingtonPost #Disney #Bezos #Amazon
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> The Gaza Palestinians remain untermenschen for the Israelis, for U.S. officials, for establishment pundits, and for leaders of the E.U. As victims of a U.S.-armed and protected client state, they are “unworthy” and not classifiable as the victims of “genocide” or “massacres...
> Once again, we are back to the difference between Constructive, Nefarious, Benign, and Mythical bloodbaths...
#DavidPeterson and #EdwardHerman in #PoliticsOfGenocide 🧵 -
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Finally reading an important book and finding background for Andre Vitchek's article about Indonesia and Chile:> The huge massacres in Indonesia, 1965-1969, have a threefold importance. In the first place, they constitute a new phase in counterrevolutionary violence marked by resort to “mass extermination in an attempt to consolidate authoritarian power.”
#NoamChomsky and #EdwardHerman in #PEHR
#PEHR1 #WashingtonConnection
#Indonesia1965 #IndonesiaMassacres #AndreVitchek
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> ... internal freedom is quite compatible with exploitative and inhumane external conduct extending over many decades...> Human slavery also lasted quite a long time in the Western democracies, not to speak of vicious exploitation, imported cheap labor, and other... practices, which still are prevalent.
#PoliticalEconomyOfHumanRights by #NoamChomsky and #EdwardHerman
#ThirdWorldFascism #SubFascism #TheWashingtonConnection
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> ..the soldiers are still there, NATO is..expanding.. #Modern urope are contributing soldiers to the #AfghanWar and were heavily involved in warfare in Libya and elsewhere. Furthermore, Europe’s social security systems have been under attack for years and the well-being of ordinary citizens seems to be a declining objective of Europe’s leaders, as well as those in the United States.
#EdwardHerman on #JamesSheehan and
_ Where Have All the Soldiers Gone: The Transformation of Modern Europe _ -
> .. the huge Vietnam war death toll was, for Pinker, a result of the “fanatical” unwillingness of the Vietnamese to surrender to superior force. (“The three deadliest postwar conflicts were fueled by Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese communist regimes that had a fanatical dedication to outlasting their opponents.”) This is pretty crude apolo- getics for aggression and mass killing.
#EdwardHerman on #StevenPinker about #InvasionOfVietnam #VietnamWar #CommunistRegimes -
> #StevenPinker’s.. book, The #BetterAngelsOfOurNature: Why Violence Has Declined, is a propaganda windfall for the leaders and supporters of the U.S. imperial state, currently engaged in multiple wars, with over 800 military bases across the globe, asserting and using the right to kill untried “terrorists” any place on earth and still operating a torture gulag abroad and a record-breaking and abusive prison system at home...
https://znetwork.org/zmagazine/stephen-pinker-on-the-triumph-of-angels-by-edward-herman/
#EdwardHerman #ZNetwork #HermanOnPInker