Agree with him or not, we lose out by not listening.' -BusinessWeek 'With relentless logic, Chomsky bids us to listen closely to what our leaders tell us-and to discern what they are leaving out. He may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet.' -The New York Times Book Review We should understand it as a plea to end American hypocrisy, to introduce a more consistently principled dimension to American relations with the world, and, instead of assuming American benevolence, to scrutinize critically how the US government actually exercises its still-unmatched power.' -The New York Review of Books America, in his view, must be reined in, and he makes the case with verve. a polemic designed to awaken Americans from complacency. And, in a new afterword, he addresses the election of Donald Trump and what it shows about American society.įierce, unsparing, and meticulously documented, Who Rules the World? delivers the indispensable understanding of the central issues of our time that we have come to expect from Chomsky. He delves deep into the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Israel-Palestine, providing unexpected and nuanced insights into the workings of imperial power on our increasingly chaotic planet. involvement with Cuba to the sanctions on Iran, he details how America’s rhetoric of freedom and human rights so often diverges from its actions. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from the sordid history of U.S. In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky examines the way that the United States, despite the rise of Europe and Asia, still largely sets the terms of global discourse. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rights.

The world’s leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the nature of U.S.

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