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Chomsky, Noam.
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World politics -- 21st century.
Power (Social sciences)
United States -- Foreign relations -- 21st century.
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Chomsky, Noam.
World politics -- 21st century.
Power (Social sciences)
United States -- Foreign relations -- 21st century.
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Who rules the world? / Noam Chomsky.
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Chomsky, Noam.
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2016.
Call #:
327
.73
C548w
Subjects
World politics -- 21st century.
Power (Social sciences)
United States -- Foreign relations -- 21st century.
ISBN:
9780241189443 (pbk.)
9781627793810 (hc.)
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Description:
viii, 307 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-293) and index.
Contents:
The responsibility of intellectuals, redux -- Terrorists wanted the world over -- The torture memos and historical amnesia -- The invisible hand of power -- American decline : causes and consequences -- Is America over? -- Magna Carta, its fate, and ours -- The week the world stood still -- The Oslo Accords : their context, their consequences -- The eve of destruction -- Israel-Palestine : the real options -- "Nothing for other people" : class war in the United States -- Whose security? How Washington protects itself and the corporate sector -- Outrage -- How many minutes to midnight? -- Cease-fires in which violations never cease -- The U.S. is a leading terrorist state -- Obama's historic move -- "Two ways about it" -- One day in the life of a reader of the New York Times -- "The Iranian threat" : who is the gravest danger to world peace? -- The doomsday clock -- Masters of mankind.
Summary:
"A probing examination of the waning American Century, the nature of U.S. policies since 9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rights In an analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky argues that the United States, through its military-first policies and its unstinting devotion to maintaining a world-spanning empire, is both risking catastrophe and wrecking the global commons. Using examples, from the expanding drone assassination program to the threat of nuclear warfare, as well as the flashpoints of Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Israel/Palestine, he offers insights into the workings of imperial power on our increasingly chaotic planet. An anatomy of how U.S. elites have grown ever more insulated from any democratic constraints on their power. While the broader population is lulled into apathy - diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable - the corporations and the rich have increasingly been allowed to do as they please. An analysis of the central conflicts and dangers of our time that we have come to expect from Chomsky. Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, logician, social critic, and political activist."--Provided by publisher.
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