Language English Media type Print | Publication date 1979 Originally published 1979 Country United States of America | |
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Preceded by Counter-Revolutionary Violence: Bloodbaths in Fact & Propaganda Followed by Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media Similar Noam Chomsky books, International relations books | ||
The Political Economy of Human Rights is a two-volume work written by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman, published in 1979. The authors offer a critique of United States foreign policy in Indochina.
Contents
Summary
Chomsky and Herman discusse United States foreign policy in Indochina, with significant focus on the Vietnam War. They include sections on the My Lai Massacre, Operation Speedy Express, and the Phoenix Program.
The authors challenge received wisdom on foreign policy, presenting a stark critique of the international human rights record of the United States, and an indictment of the American media and of academic scholarship, alleging their complicity in this record.
Reception
Not being published by a major house, The Political Economy of Human Rights received hardly any reviews in mainstream American newspapers and popular journals.