Hopes and Prospects

"Chomsky's gritty, politically charged essays redefine the nature and practice of democracy in an increasingly unsteady world climate" (Foreword Reviews).

In this urgent book, Noam Chomsky surveys the dangers and prospects of our early twenty-first century. Exploring challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism (including under Pres. Barack Obama), the fiascos of Iraq and Afghanistan, the US-Israeli assault on Gaza, and the recent financial bailouts...