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After the Cataclysm
Postwar Indochina and the Reconstrution of Imperial Ideology
Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
Pages: 392Edition: Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume 2
ISBN: 0-89608-100-1
Format: paper
Release Date: 1979-01-01
This book is also available in cloth
Dissects the aftermath of the war in Southeast Asia, the refugee problem, the Vietnam/Cambodia conflict and the Pol Pot regime. The companion book to The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism: The Political Economy of Human Rights: Vol. I.
"[A] valuable, carefully documented 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 tendentious as that dealing with the early years of U.S. military intervention in Indochina."—George Kahin, Cornell University
Noam Chomsky
Click here to view Noam Chomsky's full Author PageNoam Chomsky is a world-renowned linguist, scholar, and political analyst. Born on December 7, 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Chomsky became politically conscious at a very young age, writing his first political article, on the fight against fascism in Spain, when he was only ten years old.
His 1957 work Syntactic Structures revolutionized the field of linguistics, fundamentally changing the current understanding of language and mind. Chomsky joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1955, and in 1976 was appointed Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.
Chomsky has written and lectured extensively on linguistics, philosophy, international affairs, U.S. foreign policy, and other contemporary political issues. His essays have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Z Magazine, CAQ, and numerous political and scholarly publications.
Chomsky's groundbreaking work on Palestine and the Middle East, East Timor, the Gulf War, and the mass media have gained international attention. As evidence of his broad appeal and importance, he was the subject of the award-winning 1993 film “Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media,” and excerpts from his speeches have appeared on the b-side of a single by the band Bad Religion.
Chomsky books with South End Press include Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs, Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and Palestine and Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies among others.
Edward S. Herman
Click here to view Edward S. Herman's full Author PageEdward S. Herman is a Professor Emeritus of Finance, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a contributor to Z Magazine since its founding in 1988. Herman is the author of numerous books, including a number of corporate and media studies. These include Corporate Control, Corporate Power (1981), the two-volume Political Economy of Human Rights (1979) and Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988, 2002), both of which he co-authored with Noam Chomsky, as well as The "Terrorism" Industry: The Experts and Institutions That Shape Our View of Terror (1989), which he co-authored with Gerry O'Sullivan, and The Myth of the Liberal Media: An Edward Herman Reader (Peter Lang, 1999).