Hopes and Prospects
In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky surveys the dangers and prospects of our early twenty-first century.\ Exploring challenge such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism (including under president Barack Obama), the fiascos of Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. Israeli assault on Gaza, and the recent financial bailouts, he also sees hope for the future and a way to move forward-in the democratic wave in Latin America and in the global solidarity movements that...
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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.)
PrefacePart I Latin AmericaOne Year 514: Globalization for Whom? 3Two Latin America and U.S. Foreign Policy 39Three Democracy and Development: Their Enemies, their Hopes 75Four Latin American and Caribbean Unity 103PART II North AmericaFive "Good News," Iraq and Beyond 121Six Free Elections, Good News and Bad 143Seven Century's Challenges 165Eight Turning Point? 177Nine Elections 2008: Hope Confronts the Real World 207Ten Obama on Israel-Palestine 251Eleven The Torture Memos 259Twelve 1989 and Beyond 269Notes 281Index 315
\ Publishers WeeklyThis 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.)\ \
