The "Terrorism" Industry

by Edward S. Herman

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679725598
• ISBN13: 9780679725596
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Wow! Truly alarming and spine chilling !!!

"The Terrorism Industry" is a remarkable book composed of an outstanding and meticulous research. With surgical precision, Herman and O'Sullivan have clearly and thoroughly elucidated and exposed every element and detail in the terrorism industry. The material in this book is enlightening, frightening, disturbing, and flabbergasting. If you can find this book, buy it. It's worth reading.

Deeply disturbing

This is a disturbing book, designed obviously to remove the rose colored glasses through which we look at Western culture. According to the findings and actual history of Herman and O'Sullivan, Western culture as we know it was not only created by war but is only maintained through constant war--though much of the wars that are waged to keep our consumptive culture alive, as they are waged against innocent people around the world, are not spoken of or reported in the Western media. They are also, obvviously, just considered part of the everyday of life of Europe and the US by our leaders. This book takes Gore Vidal's PERPETUAL WAR FOR PERPETUAL PEACE to another level--one even more disturbing. In so doing it makes the newspapers make a lot more sense, despite the new way in which they will break your heart after reading this incredibly well thought out and scholarly book. What is terrorism? If you think you know, read this book and be changed. It is nor surprise that this book, through many of the secret literary terrorist techniques of the politically influenced publishing industry is no longer in print. The surprise, when reading its contents, is that it was ever allowed to be printed in the first place.Get a copy of this and read this book while you can; we are not as far away from the land of Farenheit 451 as you may think.

The Publisher's Weekly review above is suspiciously biased

"We have wondered why it was that Dr. Savimbi's UNITA in Angloa and the Contras in Nicaragua were 'freedom fighters, lionized by...Reagan...whereas our liberation movements such as the African National Congress...were invariably castigated as 'terrorist movements'...We had our suspicions that there was a coherent, well-thought-out policy by the West to exercise a selective morality...This book confirms our suspicions...the 'terrorism industry has been very much needed in the West as a cover for its own activities and crimes'..."Archibishop Desmond TutuPraise for THE TERRORISM INDUSTRYIn the wake of the Madrid bombings of 2004, coming exactly three years and six months after the World Trade Center 9/11 incident, all people, particularly Americans, must develop the stomach to look at the root causes of the terrorism that threatens us all: THE TERRORISM WE SUPPORT and INITIATE. Edward Herman and Gary O'Sullivan have written a diagnosis of the ills of the modern world with this book THE TERRORISM INDUSTRY that becomes a moral issue of dangerous proportions for any rational person to ignore. In this, they uncover the very definition of terrorism, and how that definition is used by the government and the media, is part of the reason why it continues to exist.In THE TERRORISM INDUSTRY, you will discover that that which we call the terrorism that justifies the waging of foreign wars and the shredding of the Bill of Rights makes up little more than ten percent of the actual terrorism that has killed literally millions of (mostly non-White) people around the world. And much of it has been supported by our government, for any number of reasons--making much of the terorism that is inflicted upon ordinary people in the Western world actually blind and frightened acts of revenge, though the American Media will never show it to be such. Building on the analysis of bias and marketable propaganda that is at the core of the Media empires' definition of both news and history in the classic MANUFACTURING CONSENT with Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman develops exactly what his subtitle promises: a complete explication of the experts and institutions that shape our view of terror in the today's world. Long before the avalanche of frightening alternative scholasrhip that is in their bibliography shows you the relationship of Nazism and the Far Right to the politics of definition of what "terrorism" actually is, it will be all but impossible to see the very way in which we are taught to perceive terror as a conintuation of the colonialist/imperialist policies designed to insure Western hegemony in the world, at the expense of the very democracy we (sometimes) defend at home.Read this at your own risk. But remember, living in the world as we know it in ignorance is a lot riskier.

More than right wing propoganda

The western "corporate" mass media seems to be more concerned about protecting special interests than is disseminating good, unbiased information. This book goes over different conflict areas (South Africa, Middle East, etc) comparing how certain events were reported by the corporate media, and what actually happened. It shows how what we see, read and hear are all highly edited and spun by those that want to obscure the truth. An absolutely fantastic book. I would recommend it to anyone who doesn't mind having their eyes opened.