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Subscribe to the lovethebook.com book feed mix using any reader! 6/20/2011
Juan Gonzalez on America's role in Latin America
5/13/2011
Adam Hochschild on how World War I began
4/29/2011
Manning Marable, 1950 - 2011, dies days before publication of his biography of Malcolm X
2/2/2011
Edward Herman and David Peterson on Julian Assange and Luis Posada Carriles
1/28/2011
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
12/1/2010
American scholar Chalmers Johnson, 1931 - 2010
11/8/2010
Susan Reverby has won the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award for Examining Tuskegee
10/25/2010
Fractal Mathmematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot, 1924 – 2010
10/21/2010
Mohammed Arkoun, Islamic scholar who explored Enlightenment ideals, 1928-2010
10/10/2010
Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel Prize
9/20/2010
Tariq Ali on "The Obama Syndrome"
9/10/2010
Historian and public intellectual Tony Judt, 1948 - 2010
8/31/2010
Former U.S. Senator James Abourezk on Leaders in Hiding
8/23/2010
David Kirby on something else we feed chickens
8/5/2010
Andrew J. Bacevich on How to Dismantle the American Empire
8/1/2010
Stacy Malkan on Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry
7/10/2010
Joy Gordon on the Invisble War, the United States and Iraq Sanctions
6/26/2010
Tom Engelhardt on the American Way of War
6/25/2010
Writer, critic and activist Carlos Monsiváis, 1938 - 2010
6/8/2010
He is totally unreproducible — he was sui generis — Martin Gardner, 1914 - 2010
6/7/2010
Joe Meadors: I seem to have all the bad luck in the world when it comes to the Israelis.
5/30/2010
Historian Bruce Cumings on the rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula
5/12/2010
How the hell did it happen? - Daniel Okrent on how Prohibition democratized drinking and made the income tax possible
5/6/2010
"We have more than an oil slick out of control, we also have these big corporations out of control." - Marine toxicologist Rikki Ott on the BP and Exxon Valdez oil spills.
4/24/2010
"This is too important. We cannot leave this to governments": Cormac Cullinan on the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights
4/6/2010
Anarchist, poet, publisher and chess-player, John Rety, 1930 - 2010
4/4/2010
"Literature was another victim of the war": Miguel Delibes, 1920 - 2010
3/24/2010
The beautiful brain of Sherman Alexie: War Dances wins 2010 Pen/Faulkner Award
3/13/2010
It's terrible to be possessed by brittle things: Elena Fanailova's The Russian Version wins the Best Translated Book Award for Poetry
3/7/2010
Translator, critic and BBC script editor, Barbara Bray, 1924 - 2010
2/28/2010
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award to D. A. Powell
2/24/2010
The banks have had nine months to creatively increase the real cost of borrowing: Robert Manning on Credit Card Nation
2/9/2010
Robert McChesney and John Nichols the history and necessity of government subsides for US journalism
2/5/2010
Of course, I’d forgotten she’d died: An extract from A Scattering by Christopher Reid, the 2009 Costa Book of the Year
1/30/2010
Tributes to People's Historian Howard Zinn, 1922 - 2010
1/24/2010
Johann Hari on P. W. Singer's Wired For War
1/23/2010
Jamin Raskin on the Supreme Court campaign finance ruling which removes limits on corporate campaign spending
1/16/2010
"Haitians have been punished ever since for claiming their freedom", Tracy Kidder and Peter Hallward on Haiti
1/2/2010
At 42, she was one of the best poets of her generation, Rachel Wetzsteon, 1967 - 2009
12/27/2009
You have to decide which side you are on: there is always a side. Commitment does not exist in an abstraction; it exists in action: Dennis Brutus, 1924 - 2009
12/19/2009
The wedding guests look upon the cracked, pink lips of Rosie's bridegroom - an extract from Petina Gappah's An Elegy for Easterly, the 2009 Guardian First Book Award winning book
12/12/2009
David Cortright on Obama's shallow understanding of the priciples of Just War Theory
11/26/2009
Obama's rejection of Landmine Treaty lacks vision, compassion, and basic common sense
11/22/2009
Those who saw him hushed: Let the Great World Spin, the National Book Award winner by Colum McCann
11/15/2009
Robert Jensen: Of Turkeys and Holocausts
11/8/2009
Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1908 - 2009, his works as a practical anti-racist manifesto
11/7/2009
Power exercised by man over his fellow man is always a usurpation, Francisco Ayala, 1906 - 2009
11/1/2009
If you think you'll to be rich someday, why resent million-dollar bonuses: Barbara Ehrenreich on Positive Thinking
10/21/2009
Four Canadians tortured in the name of fighting Terror, Kerry Pither wins Ottawa Book Award for Dark Days
10/14/2009
The Potato that Became a Tomato, Playgiarist Raymond Federman, 1928 - 2009
2/2/2011 Edward Herman and David Peterson on Julian Assange and Luis Posada Carriles

By an historical coincidence, both Julian Assange and Luis Posada Carriles were brought before Western courts around the same time in late 2010 and early 2011—Assange in Britain and Posada in the United States. The contrast in their treatment by the U.S.-Anglo system of justice and in their handling by the Western establishment media is enlightening.

Posada, now 82, is a self-confessed terrorist, Bay of Pigs veteran, School of the Americas graduate, and CIA operative who has been credibly placed at two meetings where the plan was hatched for the October 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed all 73 civilians aboard. He also has been implicated in numerous other terrorist acts in which people were killed or injured and property destroyed, and he played a role in the United States' arms-smuggling network in Central America that eventually came to light in the Iran-Contra investigations.

"The CIA taught us everything," Posada told the New York Times in 1998. "They taught us explosives, how to kill, bomb, trained us in acts of sabotage." Posada was a star pupil. But as a longtime CIA asset and, until the past decade, the "most notorious commando in the anti-Castro underground," the U.S. justice system has never charged Posada with a crime related to terrorism or the death of civilians, even though a former FBI counterterrorism expert who investigated the Cuban airliner bombing claims that Posada was "up to his eyeballs" in its planning. Surely this is because his killings and bombings were carried out against targets of U.S. policy, and because he almost certainly would have implicated the CIA.

In fact, the U.S. justice system never charged Posada with any kind of offense until early 2007, when a federal grand jury indicted him with the ludicrously lesser charges of making false statements during his naturalization interview two years earlier. After Posada had slipped into Miami's anti-Castro Cuban-exile community in March 2005, he filed for political asylum but then quickly withdrew his application when he recognized that in the aftermath of 9/11 and Bush's "War on Terror," his past activities made him a "hot potato."

But before he could disappear again, he held a news conference in Miami, and Department of Homeland Security agents grabbed him—and ever since he has faced a series of on-again-off-again perjury charges related to his original interview.

With his current trial now underway in a U.S. District Court in El Paso, things have not moved beyond this point, leading one observer, Jose Pertierra, a Washington D.C.-based attorney who represents the Venezuelan government, which since 2005 has sought Posada's extradition to stand trial for the Cuban airliner bombing, to conclude that "all parties are waiting for a biological solution to this case.”

As U.S. prosecutor Timothy Reardon told the court at the start of this trial, Posada "can do anything he wants to the Cuban regime." But he lied during his naturalization interview, and one "must play by the rules and tell the truth to become a citizen."

Julian Assange, by contrast, has not killed anybody, or so far even broken any law, and key U.S. military officials have denied claims that information released into the public realm via WikiLeaks has resulted in anybody's death...

- an excerpt from Mixed Media: Assange and Posada in the Propaganda System by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson. Herman and Peterson are coauthors of the new book The Politics of Genocide published by Monthly Review Press.

Edward Herman,David Peterson
The Politics of Genocide
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
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The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman
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The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
Edward S. Herman
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Triumph of the Market: Essays on Economics, Politics, and the Media
Edward S. Herman
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