After the Cataclysm: Postwar Indochina and the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology

by Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608464388
Publisher:	Haymarket Books
Publication date:	11/04/2020
Series:	The Political Economy of Human Rights , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	490
Sales rank:	237,232
Lexile:	1680L (what's this?)
File size:	938 KB

About the Author

Noam Chomsky: Professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Noam Chomsky is widely regarded to be the foremost critic of U.S. foreign policy in the world. He has published a multitude of books, articles and essays on global politics, history, and linguistics. Among his recent books includes "Hegemony or Survival," published by Haymarket Books in audiobook format, with Brian Jones reading.

Edward S. Herman is an American economist and media analyst with a specialty in corporate and regulatory issues as well as political economy and the media. He is Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

	Preface	vii
1	The Setting	1
1.1	The U.S. Impact on Indochina	1
1.2	The United States in Vietnam: A Partial Victory	7
1.3	Picking Up the Pieces: A Return to Counterrevolutionary Intervention	17
2	Precedents	23
2.1	The Intelligentsia and the State	23
2.2	In the Light of History	32
3	Refugees: Indochina and Beyond	49
4	Vietnam	61
5	Laos	119
6	Cambodia	135
7	Final Comments	295
	Footnotes	301
	Index	385