{"product_id":"9781583672129","title":"The Politics of Genocide","description":"\u003cp\u003eHerman (emeritus, Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania) and Peterson (an independent journalist and researcher) revisit the issue of the politicization of mass killings that Herman and collaborator Noam Chomsky (who here only provides the foreword) discussed in Counter-Revolutionary Violence: Bloodbaths in Fact and Propaganda in the early 1970s. In that work Herman and Chomsky categorized mass killings--as constructed by the US political and media elites--as \"Constructive,\" e.g., carried out by the United States itself or serving immediate and major interests; \"Benign,\" e.g., carried out by allies or clients; \"Nefarious,\" e.g., carried out by states targeted by the United States; and \"Mythical,\" a subset of \"Nefarious.\" This categorization scheme is maintained here by Herman and Peterson for their discussion of how mass killings are portrayed in political and media circles. They discuss the Iraq sanctions regime, the invasion of Iraq, Darfur, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Sabra and Shatila refugee camp massacres overseen by the Israeli military, the Israeli invasion of Gaza in 2008-2009, Croatia's Operation Storm, Dasht-e-Leili in Afghanistan, the differential treatment of Kurds in Iraq and Turkey, Indonesia and East Timor, El Salvador and Guatemala, and Racak in Kosovo. Annotation 2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Monthly Review Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48769383497963,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":27.46,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781583672129-1.jpg?v=1781691101","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781583672129","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}