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Overview

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 suggest "real progress toward freedom and justice."

Hopes and Prospects is essential reading for anyone who is concerned about the primary challenges still facing the human race.

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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.)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781931859967
  • Publisher: Haymarket Books
  • Publication date: 5/1/2010
  • Pages: 336
  • Sales rank: 209,168
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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

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  • Posted July 20, 2010

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    Chomsky yet again tells us far more about our world than our media ever do.

    Noam Chomsky yet again tells us far more about our world than our media ever do.

    He writes, "A well-documented conclusion is that sovereignty, hence ability to control internal economic development and to enter international market systems on one's own terms, is a crucial prerequisite to economic development." 25 years of economic sovereignty, backed by exchange controls and managed currencies, did better than the succeeding 25 years of Thatcherism. Protectionism brings growth; imposed liberalisation harms growth.

    In 1985 the World Bank said that in its standard 'development' strategy, domestic consumption should be 'markedly restrained', support for education 'minimized' and 'less emphasis should be placed on social objectives'.

    The US National Intelligence Council's Global Trends 2015 (2000) said globalisation will lead to 'a widening economic divide' and 'deepening economic stagnation, political instability, and cultural alienation'. In law, predictable consequences are evidence of intent. Amnesty International's Secretary-General says that poverty is the worst of all the world's many human rights abuses.

    In Latin America, Obama plays the usual US role. In June 2009, the largely US-controlled IMF at once gave a $150 million loan to the coup regime in Honduras. The IMF had earlier withdrawn loans from the elected government because it opposed that government's policies. In 2002, during the (failed) coup against Venezuela's elected government, the IMF had at once offered aid to the coup regime. France and the USA backed the 2004 coup in Haiti, which overthrew the elected government, causing 8,000 violent deaths in the next two years.

    By contrast, Chomsky praises Cuba's 'remarkable record of genuine internationalism over many years', especially its Operation Milagro, which has restored sight to more than a million people.

    He denounces Israel's vicious and illegal siege of Gaza. Israel, with the USA, is destroying any viable Palestinian state. The USA and the EU voted against the International Atomic Energy Agency resolution calling on Israel to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to open its nuclear facilities to inspection.

    In the recent US election, the best-funded candidate won 9 out of 10 contests, and Obama was the presidential candidate with most Wall Street funding. This January, the US Supreme Court voted to allow corporations to spend shareholder money directly in future elections.

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    Damn communists

    He does not care about our nation and lives in it? He should go tochina and choke on the carbon dioxide its factories prooduce

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 24, 2012

    Nothing new

    Just a rehash

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