Like A Cuttlefish Spurting Out Ink: Studies in the Art of Deceit
Studies in the Art of Deceit
- Editore:
MILL CITY PR
- EAN:
9781545667552
- ISBN:
1545667551
- Pagine:
- 900
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione Like A Cuttlefish Spurting Out Ink: Studies in the Art of Deceit
In this collection, no fewer than 30 of Edward S. Herman and David Peterson's essays in the critique of the "Art of Deceit" spanning a period of close to 20 years have been published together in one volume for the first time. They bring impressive levels of skepticism and scholarship to bear on the often hidden-in plain-sight systems of false belief (or ideologies) that rule both intellectual and popular culture. They cover the real as opposed to the ideological uses of the word 'terrorism'; the long-term U.S. and media misrepresentations of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Honduras, the former Yugoslavia, and Rwanda; the warmongering work of the late writer Christopher Hitchens, as well as the multiple systematic falsehoods of the "New Humanitarians," who shared a penchant for advocating War in the name of Peace and Human Rights. As long-time Herman collaborator Noam Chomsky remarked, the result constitutes "A real triumph." This collection demands to be read and studied closely and carefully.
