After the Cataclysm examines the political, social, and ideological aftermath of the Indochina wars, focusing on Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos following the withdrawal of the United States. Chomsky and Herman analyze how Western media and political institutions constructed narratives about postwar Indochina to justify American foreign policy and sustain Cold War ideological frameworks. The book c…
In this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order. Based on a s…