After the Cataclysm: Postwar Indochina and the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (The Political Economy of Human Rights Book 2)

Volume two of the influential study of US foreign policy during the Cold War—& the media’s manipulative coverage—by the authors of Manufacturing Consent. First published in 1979, Noam Chomsky & Edward Herman’s two-volume work, The Political Economy of Human Rights, is a devastating analysis of the United States government’s suppression of human rights & support of authoritarianism in Asia, Africa & Latin America during the 1960s & 70s. Still one of the most comprehensive studies of the subject, it demonstrates how government obscured its role in torture, murder & totalitarianism abroad with the aid of the news media. In the first volume, Chomsky & Herman focus on US terror in Indochina. In volume two, After the Cataclysm, the authors examine the immediate aftermath of those actions, with special focus on the Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia. Throughout, the authors track the media response to the US interventions—a mixture of willful silence & Orwellian misrepresentation.°°°Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Laureate Professor of Linguistics & Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in the Program in Environment & Social Justice at the University of Arizona. His work is widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics. Chomsky is the author of numerous best-selling political works, which have been translated into scores of languages. Recent books include What Kind of Creatures Are We?, as well as Optimism Over Despair, & Internationalism of Extinction. Edward S. Herman is professor emeritus of finance at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania & has written extensively on economics, political economy, & the media. Among his books are Corporate Control, Corporate Power, The Real Terror Network, & Manufacturing Consent (with Noam Chom Volume two of the influential study of US foreign policy during the Cold War—and the media’s manipulative coverage—by the authors of Manufacturing Consent . First published in 1979, Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman’s two-volume work, The Political Economy of Human Rights , is a devastating analysis of the United States government’s suppression of human rights and support of authoritarianism in Asia, Africa and Latin America during the 1960s and 70s. Still one of the most comprehensive studies of the subject, it demonstrates how government obscured its role in torture, murder and totalitarianism abroad with the aid of the news media. In the first volume, Chomsky and Herman focus on US terror in Indochina. In volume two, After the Cataclysm , the authors examine the immediate aftermath of those actions, with special focus on the Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia. Throughout, the authors track the media response to the US interventions—a mixture of willful silence and Orwellian misrepresentation. With a new preface by the authors, this companion book to __The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism__, dissects the aftermath of the war in Southeast Asia, the refugee problem, the Vietnam/Cambodia conflict and the Pol Pot regime.

• New preface by Noam Chomsky
• 2014 is the 25th anniversary of the original two volumes of Political Economy of Human Rights being published at South End.

The companion book to The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism: The Political Economy of Human Rights: Vol. I