Edward S. Herman is Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, an economist and media analyst. He is author of numerous books, including Corporate Control, Corporate Power (1981), The Real Terror Network (1982), Manufacturing Consent (1988, with Noam Chomsky), Triumph of the Market (1995), and The Myth of The Liberal Media: an Edward Herman Reader (1999).

He contributes comments on World events. These columns deal with the Russian/IMF/Bank of New York money-laundering case, the hypocritical Western positions and statement on events and responsabilities in East Timor, the possible trial of Pol Pot for war crimes and Henry Kissinger's impunity to any such trial, the double standard in coverage of Suharto and Pol Pot, the media complicity in covering up U.S./Indonesia collusion on East Timor, media subservience to dominant US interests, the US self-given right to bomb, the US as "Superterrorist", genocide in the Middle East, September 11th, Afghanistan, Iraq, "Democracy" in the US Empire, Yugoslavia and Kosovo,.... and much more.