After the Cataclysm: The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume II (The Political Economy of Human Rights, 2) - Softcover

Chomsky, Noam; Herman, Edward S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1608463974 ISBN 13: 9781608463978

Publisher: Haymarket Books, 2014

Synopsis

With a new preface by the authors, this companion book to The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism, dissects the aftermath of the war in Southeast Asia, the refugee problem, the Vietnam/Cambodia conflict and the Pol Pot regime.

About this title

About the Author:

Noam Chomsky: Professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Noam Chomsky is widely regarded to be the foremost critic of U.S. foreign policy in the world. He has published a multitude of books, articles and essays on global politics, history, and linguistics. Among his recent books includes "Hegemony or Survival," published by Haymarket Books in audiobook format, with Brian Jones reading.

Edward S. Herman 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.

Review:

"After the Cataclysm is the story of how the US press prints the news it sees fit to print...The establishment press will do all it can to proven this powerful book from being read, but the evidence is too clear and the analysis too careful done for the best of orchestrated campaigns to keep the book in the close. Read it! Put it in your library! Talk to your neighbors about it! No Where have I read such an incisive statement on the how the press serves the corporations and institution rather than the truth."
―Don Luce, Clergy and Laity Concerned

"Anyone who doubts the active hostility and dishonesty of the country's most prestigious liberal media―including the New York Times and Washington Post―should read this book."
―Dave Dellinger, one of the Chicago Seven

"After the Cataclysm is a valuable, carefully document assessment of Western reporting on post-1975 Indochina. Especially comprehensive in its treatment of Cambodia, it provides a trenchant―and healthy―critique of news media coverage that has usually been as tendencious as the dealing with the early years of US military intervention in Indochina."
―George Kahin, Subversion as Foreign Policy: The Secret Eisenhower and Dulles Debacle in Indonesia

"By revealing to us the true history of postwar Indochina developments, Chomsky and Herman have given us an essential weapon in the ongoing struggle against willed historical amnesia."
―Marilyn Young, President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations


"After the Cataclysm is the story of how the US press prints the news it sees fit to print...The establishment press will do all it can to proven this powerful book from being read, but the evidence is too clear and the analysis too careful done for the best of orchestrated campaigns to keep the book in the close. Read it! Put it in your library! Talk to your neighbors about it! No Where have I read such an incisive statement on the how the press serves the corporations and institution rather than the truth."
Don Luce, Clergy and Laity Concerned

"Anyone who doubts the active hostility and dishonesty of the country's most prestigious liberal media including the New York Times and Washington Post should read this book."
Dave Dellinger, one of the Chicago Seven

"After the Cataclysm is a valuable, carefully document assessment of Western reporting on post-1975 Indochina. Especially comprehensive in its treatment of Cambodia, it provides a trenchant and healthy critique of news media coverage that has usually been as tendencious as the dealing with the early years of US military intervention in Indochina."
George Kahin, Subversion as Foreign Policy: The Secret Eisenhower and Dulles Debacle in Indonesia

"By revealing to us the true history of postwar Indochina developments, Chomsky and Herman have given us an essential weapon in the ongoing struggle against willed historical amnesia."
Marilyn Young, President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

About this edition

• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1608463974
• ISBN 13: 9781608463978
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 488