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Professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Noam Chomsky is widely regarded to be the foremost critic of U.S. foreign policy in the world. He has published a multitude of books, articles and essays on global politics, history, and linguistics. Among his recent books includes "Hegemony or Survival," published by Haymarket Books in audiobook format, with Brian Jones reading.

In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky surveys the dangers and prospects of our early twenty-first century.

Publishers Weekly

This selection of Chomsky's essays and lectures comes divided into geographical areas, but the issues are global in scope and import. In dissecting the rhetoric and logic of American empire and class domination, at home and abroad, Chomsky continues a longstanding and crucial work of elucidation and activism. His latest updates elaborate upon his signature themes—the double standards applied by the centers of U.S. power, including the mainstream media and intellectual culture, and the pervasive disconnect between American policies and public opinion in what Chomsky dubs a “dysfunctional democracy.” But this book flags another major interest of Chomsky's, signaled in the title: global avenues of resistance, in particular the democratic and independent course being forged across Latin America (where several of these lectures were originally delivered). There are significant redundancies and polemical flourishes, but the writing remains unswervingly rational and principled throughout, and lends bracing impetus to the real alternatives before us. (Mar.)

Preface

Part I Latin America

One Year 514: Globalization for Whom? 3

Two Latin America and U.S. Foreign Policy 39

Three Democracy and Development: Their Enemies, their Hopes 75

Four Latin American and Caribbean Unity 103

PART II North America

Five "Good News," Iraq and Beyond 121

Six Free Elections, Good News and Bad 143

Seven Century's Challenges 165

Eight Turning Point? 177

Nine Elections 2008: Hope Confronts the Real World 207

Ten Obama on Israel-Palestine 251

Eleven The Torture Memos 259

Twelve 1989 and Beyond 269

Notes 281

Index 315