Drawing on examples ranging from expanding drone assassination programs to civil war in Syria to the continued violence in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Israel and Palestine, philosopher, political commentator and prolific activist Noam Chomsky offers unexpected and nuanced insights into the workings of imperial power in our increasingly chaotic planet.
Noam Chomsky was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1928. He is the bestselling author of over 100 influential political books, including Hegemony or Survival, Imperial Ambitions, Failed States, Interventions, What We Say Goes, Hopes and Prospects, Making the Future, Gaza in Crisis, Occupy, Power Systems, On Anarchism, Because We Say So and Masters of Mankind. He has also been the subject of numerous books of biography and interview and has collaborated with journalists on books including Perilous Power, Gaza in Crisis, and On Palestine. Noam Chomsky is Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) and his forthcoming Who Rules the World will be published by Hamish Hamilton in autumn 2016.
Publisher's description. Noam Chomsky is the world's most
influential political commentator, bar none. Here he presents a
comprehensive examination of contemporary America, its behaviour at
home and abroad, its single-minded pursuit and exercise of
power.
*Penguin*
The west's most prominent critic of US imperialism . . . the
closest thing in the English-speaking world to an intellectual
superstar
*The Guardian*
One of the greatest, most radical public thinkers of our time. When
the sun sets on the American empire, as it will, as it must, Noam
Chomsky's work will survive
*Arundhati Roy*
Noam Chomsky is a global phenomenon . . . he may be the most widely
read American voice on foreign policy on the planet today
*New York Times Book Review*
A plea to end American hypocrisy, to introduce a more consistently
principled dimension to American relations with the world, and, to
scrutinize critically how the US government actually exercises its
still-unmatched power
*New York Review of Books*
Chomsky's work is neither theoretical, nor ideological: it is
passionate and righteous
*Times Literary Supplement*
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