since then, although 2008 was still well before The Politics of Genocide went to press. But Herman and Peterson can hardly have missed a clear line of argument which, while qualifying previous accounts of the Rwandan genocide, does not undermine the conclusion that the majority of killing in Rwanda in 1994 was committed by Hutu Power forces. The difference is that Davenport and Stam want to raise questions about the narrative of genocide; Herman and Peterson want to fully overturn it. "So they are sloppy with their sources: it is they, in the nice phrase they use against Monbiot, who are 'hit-and-run intellectuals', scooping up quotes and references without due care. As Cohen says, in denial 'information is ... somehow repressed, disavowed, pushed aside or reinterpreted.' We find bucket-loads of all these tendencies in Herman and Peterson -- and their patron, Chomsky. Indeed one suspects that, as Cohen continued, 'the information "registers" well enough, but its implications -- cognitive, emotional or moral -- are evaded, neutralized or rationalized away.' "The remaining question is why do the Chomskyites do it? The obvious answer is political: they have such a huge investment in the idea that the USA and the West are the source of all the world's evils, that they can only process information to fit this case. More complex answers might include, that like their fellow deniers in the former LM coterie, they are building an intellectual and political niche out of contrarian positions. The danger is that such nonsense,